I've barely worked a total of 8 hours this month and already they are sending me off on 2 weeks of holidays. It was a toss up between sunny Spain and rainy England... and well somehow the rain won out. So one foggy Friday morning 3 girls piled into a car and headed down the road to the very north of France. Now to me, a 5 hour roadtrip is nothing, I wouldn't even think twice about it, but to two English girls- 5 hours can take you across britan. It wasn't the 5 hours in the car that got me though, it was the 6 hours on the ferry. I can sum up that experience in about one word: nausea. For an entire 6 hours all I could do to stop myself from getting sick was sleep and for a few days after I was still swaying as I walked down the street. It was a great feeling being in England, but not for the obvious reasons of seeing something new and being in a foreign country. What I liked most about it was being back in a family setting with breakfast and dinners, bickering and inside jokes. To be an adopted daughter for a couple weeks was the nicest thing that I could have asked for! Besides this, I was extremely lucky to be able to travel around, hitting up Birmingham where we did a massive amount of shopping and visited some of Jess's friends from her university, Chattnam where this posh little city has lovely boutique stores and and all girls college that has the nerve to refuse Madonna's daughter, Gloucester where I stayed for most of my holiday and is home to the city of a lovely cathedral that Harry Potter was filmed in, the tailor shop of Beatrix Potter, the old foundations of roman history and also a not very good but very fun to watch pro rugby team. London was a quick day trip that had my feet screaming and my body aching by the end of it, but was completely amazing as well. Even the Queen was in at Buckingham palace and I couldn't help but wonder where Prince William and Prince Harry were. After London, we headed to Bristol to visit some more of Jess's friends and had a wild night of partying where I got to show off my new dress. And all things came to a close when I headed to Westin for the night to stay with Lauren and her amazing family where we watched X-factor and had a wonderful dinner where I was questioned endlessly about Canada. I loved every minute of it. And there we are, my entire Toussaint vacation, something I'll never forget.
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