Wimbledon!!

I think the best part about England is the history that is everywhere you turn. quite honestly everywhere you go you can find something that has a crazy story behind it. However what is even better than seeing some part of history is experiencing it and being there when it all went down. The last couple of times I have been in England I have been able to be a part of moments that will always be remembered in history. There was the student tuition fees protest in 2010. There was the Royal wedding in 2011 that i was in London for. there was the Queen's jubilee last summer. this summer the Royal baby will be born any day now actually. Andy Murray won Wimbledon! The first British person in 77 years to do so. The Harry Potter premier in 2011, that we camped in the middle of London for and then stood for 14 hours and then got rained on for was by far the most amazing moment of my life though. I honestly feel it is the coolest thing in the world to be apart of history and not just see it from a distance. On a side note, turns out at the Harry Potter studio tour in London there is a clip from the premier that plays and you can see Chrissy and I in it. 10 minutes of fame!

London ahoy!

3 years ago when I moved to England for the first time I was not scared in the slightest. You know just moving to a foreign country where I know absolutely no one, didnt know how the trains worked, didnt exactly know the part of the country I was going to be living in and of course only knew bits and pieces of the language. So here I am 3 years later sitting in the Dallas airport and more British than American. It seems that the 13 months that I have spent in the UK have bumped the American out of me and has taken over. I struggle to spell like an american. and a life with out tea is no way to live. For those who do not know me and my luck with flights to England here is a brief recap of everything I have ever been through on flights to the UK starting in 2001 2001:Going to Europe for the first time with the family. Get stranded in SLC airport for 6 hours because of bad weather-half of this is spent sitting on the plane. Miss flight in chicago-mass mayhem before getting to scotland. 2007:Going to England for Harry Potter tour...nothing bad happens. 2008:Day trip to London from Paris- fire in Chunnel month before. Train delayed 2 hours. 2010: Move to England for school. Flight from New Jersey gets turned around because of bad plane part. Get stranded in New York airport for 5 hours before getting a hotel and then being at hotel for 4 hours before going back to the airport. spent 12 hours in airport. Luggage gets lost, do not get back for 2 weeks. 2 weeks!!! it is a wonder i made friends. 2010:flying back home for Christmas I got stranded in Chicago because of a massive snow storm. my dad kept leaving me obnoxious messages about it. finally flew to Dallas and then got home about midnight. 2011:Flying to England in October for my friends birthday, the plane we were supposed to take got hit by lightening on its way to Salt Lake and so I was delayed and then once in Chicago my plane was delayed because someone was avoiding being deported by faking a serious illness. IT WAS SO COOL! She got deported anyway. 2012:Headed back to England for the summer my flight got sent to Wisconsin instead of Chicago because we couldn't land due to rain. stranded in Wisconsin for the night the only thing that made it funny was a random guy walking around the airport at midnight eating a block of cheese. but finally in 2013 I made it on time and on the right plane. the one time I had made plans to arrive late, i was on time. Stupid airlines. But alas I am finally here and it feels great to be home. Now just to go into town and get my phone to work.