Water, boats, bridges... It just doesn't get prettier than Venice.

When we were at the VanGogh museum in Amsterdam, I told Briann that basically, if you set something at night with the moon over a body of water and incorporate a bridge in some way, I'm sold. Based on that, it shouldn't be hard to see why Venice was my favorite city; there are bridges around every corner, some 400 total I believe our gondolier told us, but that's getting ahead of myself.

Leaving Vienna, unfortunately turned into a mini disaster. When I was booking all the hostels and trains for the trip, I had planned on us taking an overnight train between Vienna and Venice since it was quite a long journey, however, the website that I was using was going though some issues the week of all the booking and I ended up having to go into the city to book it. By that time, our overnight train was full. Being that the train ride takes 7 hours, I booked the earliest one possible, the 6:20, figuring that we would all sleep on the train anyway, and I wanted to get to Venice as early as possible. Unfortunately, I didn't consider that getting 5 girls up, packed and out the door that early wouldn't be easy. I bet you can see where this is going.

We missed the train. Luckily, we were able to get on a later train that got us into Venice at 6pm. We only had 2 nights in Venice, so it was sad that we'd gotten there so late, but we made the most of it. We checked into the hostel and headed out for pizza, gelato and walking around the city. We walked to the Rialto and then decided to take a vaperetto (like a bus, but on water :) around to St. Mark's Square. Even though everything was closed, it was really beautiful at night.

The following day, we went to the Doge's Palace, and were able to walk across the Bridge of Sighs. Outside, however the building was under construction and the bridge was surrounded by a big advertisement, a tragedy that I have been complaining about since.

We took the vaperetto again, in the daylight around the city. It's amazing how beautiful every building is, but each in a different way. Then it was a nice lunch and shopping, and in the case of Briann and I, getting separated from everyone else and getting completely lost. haha. The guy at the hostel said that was part of being in Venice though, so we weren't too disappointed.

We were then joined by a friend of Shana's, Dan, who is studying abroad in Venice, and the 6 of us went on a gondola ride. The night ended with more pizza, more gelato and drinks at a bar Dan frequents.

Writing out our stay like this, I realize that we didn't do a whole lot, but really, that's my kind of vacation, so it worked. Just being there was the experience.

Vienna: Mozart, Strauss, and Freud

I think I've made you wait long enough for my travel adventures! Here's the story of Vienna!

We left Prague on an 8am bus and by 12pm we were in Vienna.

After checking into the hostel, and taking showers and naps, we headed out planning to see Mozart's house and poke around the town and the huge flea market. We watched some street performers and were headed to Mozart's when, for once, we were actually glad to be stopped by someone selling tickets on the street. We ended getting tickets to a Mozart and Strauss review that was a concert/opera/ballet combo. It was really beautiful (much better than our Don Giovanni puppet fiasco).

The next day, a Sunday, we had every intention of getting up early to go see the Vienna boys choir, but unfortunately, all 6 of us overslept. We split into 2 groups then; the other four headed to Ring Road while Briann and I went to see Schonbrunn Palace. Personally, I think we made a good choice. There was an Easter market in front of the palace where we got a great lunch, and some pastries to surprise everyone with later that night. The grounds were huge, and it even had it's own zoo and a labyrinth in the back!

Afterward, we met up with the rest of the crew at Freud's house/museum. I was a little disappointed at it really. It would have been a lot cooler if it was still set up like he had it, but instead, the bottom half of the walls showed what it used to look like and the top half had shelves and pictures. We were given a booklet that told us what each thing was, but it was a little confusing. Still, I'm glad I saw it. I think it might be psych major sacrilege to visit Vienna and not see Freud's house/office :)

A few girls were hoping to do laundry at the hostel that night and another guy was flying in, so Matt went to meet him while we chilled at the hostel and then hung out in the lounge and ate the pastries that we had bought earlier.

Back from Spring Break + Prague Pictures

Hello, hello!

I'm back from break and I finally have time to start updating! I can't even describe how amazing the whole trip was, but it's very good to be off the road and back home.

I'll start updating by city over the next couple days, but for now, I believe that I promised you some Prague pictures! This is a very random sampling since I had so many:

Next time: Vienna!

Prague

Unfortunately, Spring Break started off a little rocky. Briann and I missed our flight to Prague on Wednesday and ended up sleeping at the airport to take the 6:30 flight out on Thursday. Needless to say, we were not happy campers when we got to Prague. We didn't miss much though because one of the girls that we were meeting there was sick and so they didn't do much other than sleep before we met them.

After a short nap and a shower, we were ready to hit the town! We headed out in search of food to the old town, and ended up stumbling on the Easter Market! We sat down at a traditional Czech restaurant for lunch, and then explored the market, watched some bandstand performances, and had some desserts. Four of us headed back to the hostel early because we were all very tired, and ended up watching Indiana Jones in the lounge at the hostel, while the other two went on a pub crawl.

The next day, we took a tour of Prague that lasted a good part of the day and covered everything. We started in Bohemia, then saw old town again, followed by the Jewish quarter, and headed across the bridge to see the John Lennon wall and Prague castle. The tour ended there and a few of us decided to revisit the John Lennon wall while the others sat by the river. We did a little shopping, and then when we met up with the rest, Shana had gotten a sort of deal to see Don Giovanni at the child's price and was looking for people to come with her... It ended up being a marionette opera, which was awful, but slightly hilarious.

Upon getting back to the hostel, we decided to set up Matt's computer in the kitchen/dining room area and watch a movie, but we were a little hungry, so half of us went in search of anything that would be open late at night. We eventually found a very random pastry shop that was open and pretty much bought one of everything they had. Although the movie Eurotrip was playing in the background, none of us watched it because a group of guys at the hostel joined us and we all talked and ate 7 different kinds of pastry until ridiculously late, but it was fun!

We left for Vienna the next morning, and we were all very sad to go. The consensus was that Prague was an absolutely beautiful, fantastic city, and is definitely near the top of my list so far. I'm trying to figure out if I can just work for 6 months in the states and then live the rest of the year there... I probably could because it's really cheap and the exchange rate is amazing, about 20 koruna to a dollar.

I'll update with a slideshow later, but I don't have time to upload pictures right now.

Miss you all!

-Kendyl

Saturday in London

Planning Spring Break has been seriously stressful, and to add onto it, I had to go into the city today to book the trains because I was unable to do it online or over the phone (long story). To top it off, they were doing major rail construction today and the over and underground trains were out of service in some places and it took me three times as long to get into the city as it should have.

After all that, plus the 7.50 gbp that I had to pay to go into the city, I decided to enjoy myself after the booking was done. Can you guess where I went?

Why to visit my favorite building, of course! I walked the Thames near the Houses of Parliament, which is so amazing on a Saturday because there are so many street performers and such. Well, I attempted to get the experience on video, but as you probably know, nothing truly amazing can ever be captured on film... or in my case an SD card.



I also spent some time in a bookstore (yes, mom, I took your advice) and bought a hot dog from a vendor for lunch.

And recreated one of my favorite London moments that didn't get properly captured before. My first time into the city, if you'll recall was to meet Casey and she said that she was taking me for a surprise. We took the tube to the Westminister station and there is one exit where you walk up steps and out onto the street right at the base of Big Ben.

And now I'm home and back to the planning of our Spring Break adventures. I have one more hostel to book and then I'll send out an e-mail with the specifics.

Eating our way through Amsterdam

I think I've made you wait long enough to hear about Amsterdam.

We left Friday afternoon and our plane got in at about 7:30pm. Of course, after passport control, a train from the airport into Amsterdam and then a tram to the hostel, we were pretty exhausted and just grabbed some food at a pub nearby and passed out for the night.

Funny airport story: Going through security on the way to Amsterdam, we forgot to take the liquids out of our bags, and so they had to search them individually. And guess what I forgot I had? Pepper spray. I had put it in my checked luggage on the way here, cuz obviously I knew they would have an issue with me taking it on the plane, but I completely forgot it was on my key chain and it's illegal in the UK. They were really nice about it considering it's legal in the US, but I did have to talk to a police officer about how it's illegal here and blah blah blah. We had extra time so it wasn't too bad, but it was semi-amusing.

On our first full day we got up early and went to see Anne Frank's House. There was a line around the block once we got there, but luckily Jackie thought to get tickets early and we didn't have to wait. After that, we needed something a little happier to do, but Bri and I still needed to get our I am Amsterdam cards that get you discounts on all the attractions and give you passes to all the public transport, so we started heading for the tourist center. On the way, we saw a shop called Lots of Cheese and just had to stop. We all got cheese and bread or crackers and had a little picnic before heading back on our way :)

Once we'd gotten our Amsterdam cards, we headed for the all you can eat pancake cruise! It was pretty awesome, though it was cloudy and raining by the time that we got there, but at least we were inside by then. We spent the whole time coloring (it was a family cruise) and eating way too many pancakes.

That night we had tickets to a comedy show, Boom Chicago, at 10:30 so until then we wondered around, hit up an internet cafe, did some tourist shopping and finished what was left of our cheese and crackers from the morning. We also witnessed a canal race. Two girls with rafts paddle the width of the canal (with their hands) and once they reached the other side, took a shot and started paddling back. Unfortunately, one girl fell out of her raft in the middle of the canal. But, it was quite a sight! And there were a whole group of people gathered to cheer for them.

Anyway, the comedy show was very good. All the comedians were american so there was only a few skits that we didn't really understand. There was one part about how to pretend to be a Canadian if you're an American in Europe which was really funny considering I keep having people ask me if I'm Canadian and now all my friends are teasing me about it.

On Day two it was very nice weather so we decided to take a canal cruise (the pancake cruise wasn't through the canals). It was really amazing how many canals there are throughout the city. You don't really notice as much when you're just walking over them rather than going down them. We got to see a lot of the city then.

We stopped for lunch at a Mexican restaurant, which I know, sounds weird, but we've been obsessed with having nachos lately. Scotland had really good nachos... This restaurant was very authentic though, so it's hard to compare with pub nachos... moving on.

Then the Van Gogh Museum which was out of this world. They had an exhibition called Colors of the Night, and they had brought in Starry Night from NY for it! I hate how cliche it is for me to love that painting, but I can't help it. But that was just the big finish to the exhibition. Although it wasn't all VanGogh, the other artists were ones that he admired, and all of the works were of nightime, or twilight. Plus, they were date order, so you could see the progression.

On a whim, Bri and I checked out the House of Bols afterwards. We had split with the other 3 after lunch since they had other things that they wanted to see. The House of Bols was pretty much a 10 euro ad for Bols with a cocktail at the end. There was a supposed museum that we went through, but it wasn't amazing.

That night was just a little more tourist shopping and some amazing Chinese food for dinner, plus chocolate covered waffles for dessert.

Our last day, we went to the Rijks museum, which was only mildly interesting. There was a room for Dutch pottery that was kind of neat and we got to see a few Rembrants. Then onto the flower market which was very cool. Just a whole strip of tents selling flowers and bulbs. Unfortunately, we wouldn't have been able to bring any back, but Jackie bought a bouquet of tulips anyway and we all carried one around for the remainder of the day.

Then, we headed back to the hostel to get our stuff, and on the way stopped at a park nearby to take pictures with the big I am amsterdam sign that they have there. And had another chocolate covered waffle. We were running pretty ahead of schedule but we figured it was better to hang out at the airport than some random place where we ran the risk of getting behind, so we went and ate at the airport, more cheese and baguettes :) where we sat around and talked about how we had eaten our way through the weekend and were sursprised that they didn't have to roll us out of the country.

Now it's just the rush of homework to get done before we leave for Spring Break! The dates that I know for sure right now are as follows:

April 1- fly to Prague
April 14- fly from Rome to Barcelona
April 17- fly home to London

We will be taking a train from:
Prague to Vienna either the 3rd or 4th
Vienna to Venice the 5th or 6th
Venice to Florence the 7th or 8th and
Florence to Rome the 10th or 11th.

Most likely we'll take trains overnight between the two dates, so that we don't waste time on travel and don't have to pay for a hostel those nights.

I miss everyone so, so much. 11 weeks to go! Love you!

-Kendyl

Jane Austen, the National Theatre and Oxford

Okay, I've really been failing at keeping this updated and since I've missed so much, I'm just going to give you all a quick post to get it at least partially up to speed.

3 weeks ago a few friends and I went to see Jane Austen's house. It was amazing and we all totally geeked out when we saw her writing desk. The area was also very beautiful and we might go back when the weather's warmer. Before we went into the house we stopped at a cute little tea room across the street for lunch. Here are the pics:

The weekend before last we had two trips with British Life and Culture. First, on Thursday night, we went to see Pitmen Painters at the National Theatre, which I really enjoyed. It was about these men who worked in the mines that started an art group and it was based on a true story.

That Saturday, we went to Oxford. It was really pretty, but I'll admit it wasn't my favorite trip. Here's the pictures from that:

I just got back from Amsterdam late Monday night, but I'll save that for my next post. Hopefully, it won't be as long between posts from now on.

Love and kisses,
Kendyl

Apparantly there are no Scotish people in Scotland...

Well, it's been almost a week since I've gotten back from Scotland, so I suppose that it's time to write about it!

We left at 11pm on Thursday night (19 February, yes, I went to Scotland for Dad's birthday :) on an overnight bus to Edinburgh. We got in at around 7:40am on Friday morning and were all kinds of exhausted. We went and checked into our hostel, Princes Street Backpackers, which was very nice and then slept til about 11am, since none of us really got much sleep on the bus. We decided to just go exploring, and walk around that day and use the next 2 days for the real touristy stuff. Only 6 of us had arrived at the time as 2 of our friends had stayed for Friday classes and were arriving the next morning.

Once we were ready to go, we hit the streets... and it was raining. The first inside thing we found to do was go into the National Gallery. We walked around there for quite a while, got some food at this place called The Wash Bar, which had amazing nachos. Sounds weird, but they actually have nachos everywhere around here, and this place had great guacomole :) Then we headed out for more exploration to the Royal Mile, where the streets are pretty much lined with tourist shops. We stopped for coffee to decide what to do for the rest of the day and decided to do a ghost tour at 9:30pm. To waste time before that we did more shopping, specifically looking for this one store that's all hats (Fab-Hat-Trix) that we didn't get to before it closed unfortunately, and then stopped at this great, cheap pub (Maggie Dickson's) for dinner.

At Maggie's we met a group of Irishmen that were having a Stag night... without the groom, haha. They were singing very loudly across the pub so we joined them and then started a song war with them and another table where we all were trying to sing our sing the loudest. Of course this eventually prompted one of the Stag night guys to come over and talk to us. We convinced him to sing a traditional Irish song for us and then the other table joined him in singing it because apparently they were Irish as well. I got the whole thing on video, haha.

We headed over to the ghost tour afterwards, which was a tour of the underground city. It was alright, more informational than scary, though the guide certainly made on effort, and at the end was successful as another guy jumped out at us when the only light that we had was from a small flashlight.

Day Two: I had to get up early because Briann and Scott's bus was getting in at 7:30am and I somehow volunteered to make sure they got to the hostel alright. Briann was put in the same dorm as the rest of us but there wasn't room for Scott, so he was down the hall.

Something I should mention about the hostel, especially for all you facebookers that have seen the interesting tags on the photos I posted over there: each room in the hostel was lettered and each bed inside that room was named something that began with that letter. We were in room H with a guy we nicknamed Mr. Spain until we found out his name was Salva (short for Salvador) who had been in Edinburgh since September and in that hostel for 3 weeks (we aren't sure why as he spoke very little English) and a couple from France who also spoke very little English. Anyway, back to the bed names... here's the list: Briann-Herb, Mr. Spain-Hell, Colleen-Hallucinate, Erica-Haunted, Shana-Happy, Jessica-Hairy, French guy-Hansome, French girl-Harlot, Jackie-Hot Stuff, and me-Horny. Yeah, that would happen to me. And then Scott was in room J in the bed named Jumbo. Anyway, somewhere along the line we all decided that we should start calling each other by our bed names... haha.

We found a deal for a ticket that got you admitted to 3 different attractions and on all the hop on, hop off tours, so we hopped on one got to see the Royal Botanical Gardens and the Royal Yacht, Brittainia and then had dinner at Zizzi's, a chain italian restaurant. As it turned out we ended up missing the last tour bus and had to take a public one back to town.

At the restaurant we had decided to try to see Tom Riddle's grave (he is the namesake of the villian in Harry Potter for anyone who doesn't know) but that was during the day, and by the time we got to Greyfriar's Cemetary it was really dark. We attempted to find the grave anyway, but it was too dark and most of us we a little creeped out to be in a cemetary in the pitch black with only our cell phones as light. We did, however see the cafe that JK Rowling wrote a good portion of Harry Potter at. And we saw Greyfriar's Bobby, the statue in memory of a dog who visited his deceased master's grave everyday until the dog dies himself.

Then, it was back to Maggie's for the night. We got a big table at the back and played the drinking game King's. I only had 2 Strongbows, for the record, there are witnesses. The rules that we had (whenever you draw a King from the deck you make a rule) were as follows: anyone (except Shana who made the rule) who said the word "and" had to standup, shake their butt and blow a raspberry, anyone who said the word "drink" had to pretend to have T-rex arms until someone else said "drink" and anyone who said "what" had to put their hand over their face like a claw until someone else said "what" and took it away (the forth King never got drawn). In the slideshow you'll see Erica doing both at the same time. Her and I basically passed the clas between the two of us all night. We also met another Stag party that night, made up of guys from Cornwall, England. Me and some others left at this point, but the people that stayed met a separate group of Englishmen and a couple Norwegians leading us to the conclusion that there are no Scotish people in Scotland, haha.

Day Three: Visited the Scott Monument and then took a bus tour to Edinburgh Castle and Hollyrood Palace followed by a nice dinner (that started off not so nice as two people decided to try haggis and Briann and I almost puked from the smell). A little bit more souvenier shopping and drinks (hot chocolate) at The Wash Bar. Our bus left at 10pm and got back into London at 6 something. Good thing I didn't have class until 4pm! I slept the next two days away :)

There's not much to tell about our last day, but I still have a ton of pictures from it. Some are stolen from other people though, because me camera ran out of battery on our way to the Palace.

Well, that' s all for now, folks! Next time I'll tell you about the trip we took to Jane Austen's house this weekend!

Missing you all terribly,
Kendyl

Parliament, the Globe and a Not so Silent Dance Party

I know, I know. I haven't posted in forEVER. I apologize. Especially since this post is only going to partially catch you up to speed.

First, we must go back in time 2 weeks to February 13, when we had another class trip to tour Parliament and the Globe Theatre. There's not a whole lot to tell, so here are the pictures from that. A good portion of them are stolen from other people since my camera ran out of battery half way through the day :(

Then, there was a "silent dance" in Trafalger Square that was super fun. The basic concept was that everyone comes with their iPods or MP3s and dances to their own music at the same time. It was supposed to be silent, but everyone was screaming, but it was still pretty cool to have thousands (yes, thousands showed up) of people jamming to their own beat at the same time. My playlist for the event included:

It's Tricky - Run DMC
What I Like About You - The Romantics
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Footloose - Ken Loggins
Everytime We Touch - Cascada
Closer To Free - The Bodeans
Mickey - B*Witched
That Thing You Do - The Wonders
I Touch Myself - The Divynls
Pump It - Black Eyed Peas

We got up onto the base of a monument in the square for the dance which was pretty cool. We had a good view of everyone, but it was really crowded too which made it hard to really dance, not that that stopped us. Some people were even trying to jump off and crowd surf, but the crowd wasn't catching any of them :-/

After that we went out to dinner and then to the pub. Not much else to tell, although we did get back to Surbiton too late and the buses weren't running. Fortunately, our friend Matt was nice enough to walk Bri and I home at 12:30am.

Okay, that's it for now. I'll be writing again soon about our Scotland trip last weekend!

Photo Frenzy and Travel Plans

Well, well, well, do I ever have some pictures for you.

Yesterday was Photo Frenzy, an event put on by the study abroad office. It's basically a scavenger hunt. Our team (which we creatively named Team Us [NOT U.S. like the organizers thought]) was given a list of clues such as, "this bridge was only open for a week before it was closed for being too wobbly" and then we had to know this meant Millennium Bridge and go a take a picture of it.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Before Photo Frenzy, a few of us planned on getting up early and going to Abbey Road before we had to meet the rest. Well, we all ended up being late and we decided to do that another time since Abbey Road was quite far from where we were supposed to meet everyone. This gave us a little bit of time to walk along the Thames. There were street performers all along the river, and we had a great time just wandering around and taking pictures.

Then we met up with all the other people in our group, and started figuring out the clues! I wasn't the designated picture taker, but I stole the pictures off Matt's facebook so that I could show you! We didn't think we would win the prize for fastest group, so we tried to go for most creative, thus the reason for the funny poses in these pics. We didn't end up winning, but it was still fun!

There was also a bonus prize for best caption that starts with "You know you're in London when..." so that picture is in there too. We lost that prize to a group that definitely deserved it. They found a couple of cute British boys and captioned the picture "You know you're in London when you find guys that look like this," haha.

Here's our group pictures!

I really think we should have gotten most creative, don't you? hehe. So after that we met everyone at TigerTiger and got dinner and drinks. Of course, we ended up staying longer than everyone else, but they needed the room we were in and Laura wasn't done eating, so they let us sit in the VIP room since it was still early and the VIPs weren't getting there until later! But when they started showing up, we had to go find another pub, called The Crown and Two Chairmen. Of all the luck, we ended up getting a huge corner table, even though it was pretty busy. After hanging out there for a while, we headed back home.

Think you can handle another slide show? Good. These are all the pictures that I took of the day, starting with the walk along the Thames, some other sites of Photo Frenzy and, of course, our night at the pubs.

Okay, I know that was a long one, but I just had so many great pictures!

So, today is Sunday, and I've been relaxing all day. I'm so tired after yesterday and all the walking we did. I have some homework to do as well and class all week, so it might be awhile before I write again... mostly because there's not much that's going to be going on. We have a trip with British Life and Culture on Friday to Parliament and the Globe, though.

And the next weekend a bunch of us are taking a bus to Edinborough! We a travel meeting the other day and here are the tentitive travel dates:
*February 19- Edinborough
*March 12- Amsterdam
*March 27- Somewhere in England, we talked about either Liverpool or Cornwall
*Spring Break (not sure exactly what day we are leaving but it starts April 3)- Spain, Italy, Vienna and Prague
*April 30- Paris

The only trip that's set in stone right now is Edinborough, the rest we're still kind of talking about. And we also plan on making a trip to Neice, Dublin and possibly Berlin. I'm not going on all of these, but I haven't really decided which ones I'm not going on yet, haha. I just thought I'd let you all know what might be in store!

Missing home a bunch (even though I know it doesn't sound like it),
Kendyl

Snow, Museums and Getting Back to School

Hey everyone!

Well, it's been quite the interesting first week of classes... especially since class was canceled on Monday and Tuesday due to the "huge" amount of snow that we got. It probably amounted to about 5-8 inches total. The majority of the study abroad students are from either New York or Michigan, so we all pretty much thought it was insane that everything closed down because of that little amount of snow, but it's so unusual around here that they don't have the equipment to salt or plow it.

I didn't even leave the house on Monday because all the businesses were closed so I knew there was really no point. I just used the day to get some sleep and relaxing in, since we've been going going going since we got here. When I found out that classes were canceled the next day though, I knew I couldn't spend another day indoors. Luckily, businesses were getting back to normal even if the University wasn't.

Hunter and I went into the city and to some museums. First, the Imperial War Museum, which was really depressing, but kinda cool to see WWI and WWII from another country's perspective. And they had a Holocaust exhibit as well. By the time we got out of there we were about ready for something more on the fun side.

So we went to the Natural History Museum! haha. Okay, it might not sound like much fun, but it was more kid-oriented so there was an earthquake room that shook and other things with buttons to press or wheels to spin that appealed to my five year-old mentality :)

Then we realized that we had spent the entire day with the non-living, so we swung by Harrod's to look at the fish tank, haha, and proceeded to attempt to make a decision about where to eat. That took us through Leicester Square and China Town until we finally decided to head back to Kingston to meet everyone else at what has become our frequented pub, the King's Tun, for dinner. Anyway, here are some pictures from the day:

Wednesday, we finally started classes. I had my Shakespeare class... which might possibly eat me alive since it's about 30 drama students and me (and will involve some acting), but hopefully it'll be a fun challenge! And then I had British Life and Culture with all the other study abroad-ers, which is going to be fun. I went shopping in Kingston between classes and got some books that I needed (and some I didn't) and finally got a hairdryer! I was very excited since I've been walking around with wet hair way more than I would like.

Today I had by 19th Century Novel lecture, and there's a bunch of other study abroad students in that as well, so it's a little less intimidating than it might have been.

Anyway, I've had a request to take a picture of where I'm living so:

Other than that, I'm off to do some more book shopping and then back into Kingston to have a meeting with the crew about where and when we are going to do some traveling!

Hope all is well back in Michigan! Hugs to all,

Kendyl