We Salute You

Happy Veterans Day to all of those who have served our mighty country, past and present. I come from a military based family, so days like this have extra meaning to me. Sadly, I think most Americans do not understand this holiday and just see it as a day off work or school. This is a travesty and should be fixed.


I'd like to give a special thanks to all those veterans I know:

Dad

Jeremy

Uncle Greg

Mr. Bell

Mr. Nunes

Tim

Greg

Greg

Andrew

Buster

Jason

Gabe

Anthony

Matt

Matt

Alex

Caleb

Amy

Ben

Bob

Charlie

Chris

Chrissy

Cliff

Doug

Ebo

Garrett

Jason

Jason

Jessi

John

Jon

John

John

Tiffney

Greg

Justin

Kharlos

Kyle

Rob

Mark

Mike

Nick

Nicholas

Robert

Trevor

Will

Yes, I realize that this list is mostly by alphabet...thank you FB. I have so many military friends that I wanted to make sure I got everyone (or mostly everyone!) I probably forgot somebody, and if so, I appologize!

This Day in History v. 16

The Breakfast Club. No, not the movie...the eatery. I treated Hannah for her birthday by going to The Breakfast Club down the street in Angel. We had often longingly walked past in the morning smelling the lovely auroma of breakfast cooking in the crisp London air. Often we were willing to spend the extra quid and go but the queue outside was looming around the corner and we were usually too famished to wait that long. Once we finally went inside, we understood why people often waited over an hour to eat brekky here. It was delish! And the inside was super cute and had lots of random things along the walls and games for everyone to play while they waited. However, it was super small inside, but as to be expected for many places to eat.

There are 4 locations and I bet every one of them are just as busy as the Angel location. It's THAT GOOD. They even give away the cute little pins in the first picture of this post. We wore our badges with P-R-I-D-E!

Me enjoying my pancakes and smoothie

Hannah loving on her pancakes and smoothie as well!

The outside of the Angel locaiton

Just some of the yummy goodies they serve

The inside

They always have a sign out front with really cute sayings.

Cuddle Me

EEEKKKK!

That's one way to get your point across...

This Day in History v.30

Me, Dana, and Lora waiting for the fireworks

Happy Guy Fawkes Day! Hannah and I met up with Lora the second time (a Phi Mu that lives in London and is married to a British bloke) to partake on a British tradition of celebrating Guy Fawkes Day. We met Dana, a Phi Mu from Lora's chapter, and made the trek up to North London to a huge park to watch the fireworks. It was super cold as you can tell :)

Funny story, I randomly found Lora through myspace...true story! There was a Phi Mu group page on myspace and I posted a question wondering if anyone knew of any Phi Mus in London because I was going to be living there. Another random Phi Mu posted that she knew her sister Lora was living over there...and history was made :) Lora was our psuedo mom while we were living there. Even though she was our age she seemed to have her act together a lot more than us! Her and her husband had a cute little flat in Finsbury Park and she would cook us yummy American food when we got home sick. Thank you Lora, we will forever be in your debt!

Anyways, a little history on Guy Fawkes Night:

This is an annual celebration held on the evening of 5 November to mark the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to destroy the House of Parliament in London. The occasion is primarily celebrated in Great Britain where, by an Act of Parliament called The Thanksgiving Act, it was compulsory until 1859, to celebrate the deliverance of the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It is also celebrated in some former British colonies including New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, parts of the Caribbean and the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. Bonfire Night was celebrated in Australia until the mid-to-late 1970s, when sale and public use of fireworks was made illegal and the celebration was effectively abolished. Festivities are centred on the use of fireworks and the lighting of bonfires.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November

The Gunpowder Treason and Plot

I know of no reason

Why the Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot

So Fly Like a G6

Homecoming 2010

Phew...where to start? This past weekend was EPIC. I am so glad that Homecoming only comes once a year because I don't think my liver could take it more often than that. What makes Homecoming even better? It falls on Halloween weekend! Fancy dress party? YESSSSSS please! I loved seeing people I haven't seen in two years, some even more. I never enjoyed or even considered going to Homecoming until I moved away. Now that everyone else has moved too, it makes Homecoming that much more fun! There were even a few new CNU legacies come join our team :)

While we didn't actually go to the game, enjoy the random pictures of the day:

Some of the beautiful women at the tailgating.

Wow, this campus looks NOTHING like when I attended university!

Look what we found!

Captain Chris looks creepy.

Starting to drink at 8am is HARD WORK.

Plaza how I missed thee!

Joshy poo and I

Apparently we are ghetto when in the 'Newz.

Oh lord...we should never drink from 8am.

The man in the mask was who woke me up from my nap. Its a good thing my hand eye coordination wasn't at its' best that night.

Vampire ballerinas are thirsty at night.

One of 785947389578493 pictures we have just like this...well, minus the costumes.

Apparently they don't like you dancing on the bar. Who would have known?

Something was really funny apparently.

Guilty Pleasures

So one of my guilty pleasures is keeping up with the lives of the British Royal Family. Ever since I was little, I was always enamored by Princess Di and as I got older I also became obsessed with the ridiculous lives of the princes. Its funny how William used to be WAY hotter but now Harry is a hottie ginger. William just looks too similar to his father now. Ew. Not a good thing.


And now I am also obsessed with Kate Middleton, the supposed soon to be addition to the royal family. The gossip mags have been saying they are soon to wed for years, clearly they were wrong. Perhaps this is the year though? Friends say that they have been ‘road-testing’ married life away from public scrutiny. Some believe Prince William will follow family tradition by asking the Queen’s permission to marry at Christmas. This would be followed by an official announcement in February. I mean, look at that style, who WOULDN'T love this girl???

Ahhhh and then there is Harry. The bad boy of the family. He's constantly getting into trouble...who doesn't love a bad boy???

MMMMMMMM

YUMMY!!!!!!