Summer Trips

Summer is official over for us here in Seattle as of 5 days ago. You know, the first day of school and all. Yea yea, I know I am not in school anymore but its hard not to go by the quarter system. It just makes sense you know?

Anyway, I took a couple trips this summer. Not just the one to go home. Both were EPA government trips....but I had time for some sightseeing. The first was a week long stay in San Francisco. My first time in northern California much less the famous San Fran. It was alot of fun and reminded me of my solo trip to Biarritz. Same weather and everything...also french kids. But thats another story.

But I just spent my time wandering around the city and saw some amazing sights. It was tight. My favorite areas were China Town and the Docks. Well namely China Town. Aerica was there for a bit when I visited and she and I wandered around their a couple times.

While I was down in San Fran I visited my Aunts Mary and Susie. That was a crazy Italian/Hippy adventure in the redwoods of northern california. I plan to go back for Thanksgiving.

My second trip, the following week was to Oregon. It was an inspection of a facility. Interesting but I realized that file auditing is the most boring thing in the world. Uck....maybe I don't want to be an inspector.


The thing I realized most about this trip though was how flat the land was. It was strangely beautiful to see rolling hills for miles and miles around. I did take this chance to see my favorite childhood memory though. It hasn't changed a bit....


Well thats that. Well there is actually alot more, it is all stored in photos and in my head however. The stuff in my head is a bit difficult to access but the photos are all yours. Make up my adventures as you go along. Just remember to listen to your monkeys and stay away from deer that try to commit suicide.

On arriving home...

Mon dieu!

I forgot how huge my house is! There are literally four rooms that my parents do not use! Crazy huh?

Well unfortunately I am going to be unable to utilize the facilities of this house to its fullest extent because I still have to do finals...dang it!

Well wish me luck and I will hopefully remember to post pictures tomorrow.

-Tris

Dublin!

Wow, do I have a lot to say but regardless I will make this short cause I'm lazy and pictures are so much easier.
Anyway, this last week, I went to Dublin with Alicia for 6 days and we had a blast!

Saturday 17th-

We Arrived at our hostel and found out that for our first night we were upgraded to a private room with no extra cost! Look we even have a kitchen!
Sunday 18th-

After going to the Tourism office we went and took a nap at Trinity College...just ignore the finger k?
We then precceded to wander around for a bit.Later I ran into Dan, a classmate from high school (very odd to meet him here), and we ended up going over to his new hostel and having a couple of drinks with him in his friends. It was fun because he filled me in on all the gossip of whats going on with our other classemates.

Monday 19th-

We tried to go to the Chester Beatty Library but it was closed. So instead we wandered around the Dublin Castle, got some coffee at starbucks, and came back to the hostel to watch Lost before going to bed.

We did take some time to do a quick visit to Dvblinia (dont ask) on the wander though.
Tuesday 20th-

Today we went on a day tour of Wicklow and Glendalough. Places in the country south of Dublin and as you can tell it is really pretty. I don't know the exact names of the places we went but Alicia does and I can get the info from her later.



Wednesday 21st-

Today we actually went to the Archeology Museum. While we were there I got bored so I sat in on a lecture called 'The Broighter Hoard: blah blah blah'. It actually was quite interesting and was about the fun stuff they find in the bogs from way back, like iron age way back. It is pretty cool.

Afterwards I went for a long long long walk around and ended up near the docks. I really liked it but passed out when I got back to the hostel.

Later that night we went to a bar with some other girls from the hostel to see Irish dancing.

Then we all went to the Temple Bar, a famous tourist bar in Dublin, because we figured that if we are going to be in Dublin we might as well. I had my first real Guinness there. I have to say it was quite good. You can see it in the center of the table.Thursday 22nd-

We actually went to the Chester Beatty Library today and looked around at the religious documents it had from most of the major religions of the world. It was cool and quite educational.

After the museum we left for the airport and came back to grenoble! I was so glad to get back because I was starting to get sick and that is never good.

Good bye Dublin....

le Hiver vacance

So I think Alicia and I finnally confirmed our plans for Dublin.
We are going to be leaving this Saturday and taking a flight directly to Dublin and then hanging out in a hostel for 5 days untill we come back on thursday night.
Still don't know how I am affording it but I will figure that out when I get there.
Oh and I will definently bring back pretty pictures for everyone to enjoy!