been a long time

internet has been inconvenient to come by and we have been on the run.

we had a great time with the jaquas in edinburgh and the lake district and london. we did lots of walkin-hiking, talking and playing spades. edingurgh was a highlight. it was a really great city with castles and hills and magic (the school that inpired hogwarts is there across from a cafe that jk wrote from).

one great moment was in the lake district. laurel occasionally acts out funny-weird stuff unconsiously in the night. kelly was her roommate for several years and is used to it and now aaron is too. but not me. we were in a 4 bed hostel room. apparently she started yelling in the night. i guess i incorporated this into a dream where there was a wounded woman in our room with a knife so i unconsciously started yelling to and saying 'what!' 'what!' 'what!'. we were our hostel was a strictly silence after 11 pm. aaron freaked out at the choir of yelling and was saying 'guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys!' in a weird rhythmic way. kelly joined in on the beat with a 'laurel!' 'laurel'. i came to somewhere in this very confused, not knowing where i was, and thinking a violent wounded woman was in our pitch black room. just as i had gotten in a crouching position ready to pounce on whoever was in there from my top bunk i realized that laurel was just having a night terror. full adrenaline i laid back down listening to aaron giggle quietly in his bed.

since we have left the jaquas in london and flown to nice. we celebrated our anniversary in avignon, explored cannes and monte carlo. we spent a day in venice and now florence. we are about to train to cinquatera 'the sunshine of italy' as stated by the italians we met in amsterdam.