Second Post From Europe!

Today's my last day in London and also my last day in this awesome hostel (free internet!). I've done so many cool things here that presenting them in list-form doesn't seem to do them justice. But it'll have to suffice as I have only 15 minutes before I have to leave for the airport (I'll be traveling to Paris with John today). London has certainly grown on me after these 5.5 days. Here's the list of events in the order that I visited them:

London Eye
St. Paul's Cathedral
Millenium Bridge
Tate Moden Museum
Windsor Castle
Roman Baths in Bath
Stonehenge
Westminster Cathedral
Buckingham Palace
Westminster Abbey
Ferry on the Thames
Play in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
The National Gallery
Covent Garden
Piccadilly Circus/Tracadero (Enormous Arcade)

I also did a lot of sight-seeing stuff, like simply walking around London (for instance, I saw Big Ben many-a-time, but didn't actually go inside. The preceding list was stuff I actually did or took part in.

I add pictures but I'm running out of time. Maybe next time.

First Post From Europe!

Did Bert ever explain why he liked pigeons so much?

Your Up

In a few days I'm going to Europe for a month with my budday John. You might know him from his ridiculously famous blog, HEYOHHHH. We'll visit the following places in this order:

London, England
Paris, France
Cinque Terre (five coastal cities), Italy
Florence, Italy
Rome, Italy
Pompeii, Italy
Mykonos, Greece
Athens, Greece
Prague, Czech Republic

I'm sure a few other Italian cities will probably find their way into that list after a month's time. I don't know if I'll update this blog while I'm overseas, but I do know that my mom wants me to email her at least once a week to inform her that I have not perished. Maybe I'll find time to write a word or two then.

I'd also like to send a happy birthday to my buddays Tanner and Chris. May you two have an above-average day.

Most importantly, Joel, you better keep my fantasy baseball team in shape. I expect nothing less than first place in every category. Also, feel free to drop Jake Peavy for Scott Podsednik if John foolishly decides to drop him while in Europe.

I'll share pictures when I get back my friends.

Coinage

My whole life I've had this crayon. Not just any crayon. A huge crayon. But not just any huge crayon. A huge crayon that holds coins. I've had this crayon in my room for 23 years now, and slowly the coinage has been mitosis-ing year after year. A week ago I noticed that the crayon was filled to the brim. Since the crayon was filled to the brim, and since the yield the crayon offers a cool 0.0% APR, I figured it was finally time to cash those bad boys in. Here's the final tally:

Dollars: 2
Half Dollars: 0
Quarters: 644
Dimes: 656
Nickels: 455
Pennies: 2500

Coin Total: 276.35

Definite goo right there. I was expecting something in the 150.00-175.00 range. I'd also like to point out that I had exactly 2,500 pennies in that huge crayon. If that's not lucky I don't know what is. You know, because some gnome once said that pennies are lucky, and that the number 2,500 is not unlucky. The gnome's trustworthiness aside, I still think that was pretty sweet.

Also not listed above is a hodgepodge of other random coinage that didn't make it through the glorious counting machine:

1 silver dime
1 Canadian quarter
1 British coin worth 2 pence
1 Mexican nickel
1 grossest dime I've ever seen
1 Chuck E Cheese Token
and a number of really old "one cent" pennies

On a more sentimental note, it was kind of sad leaving, because that massive collection of coins is one of the few things left that ties me back to my beginnings. Sounds kind of lame to think that there might be an "After Crayon" era, but if there is it begins now. I fear it.

Also, while "coinage" is an actual word, it definitely looks like one of those words that I (or my buddays) would make up.

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