oh man! i was just telling carino in an email that i cannot resist guys who smell good!! there have been quite a few guys who walk past us on the street and as they pass, you can smell them and they smell SO good!!! lol i told her that im pretty sure about 50 percent of my attraction to a guy is how good he smells : ) lol it sounds so silly but its the truth. and when a guy smells good, all i want is for him to hug me so i can bury my head is in chest. ok anyways no more of that.... lol so friday night me and sarah and lisa and brent and kelly and kathryn and susan all went to see the importance of being earnest(one of my favorite plays, we read it my senior year of high school). and it was only 7 pounds(abut 13 dollars). needless to say that play was wonderful and the actors and actresses were fabulous! but on the way there, me and brent were walking behind everybody and after we passed this little resstaurant where people were eating outside, brent turns to me and says "you just got checked out twice... and once was by a girl." ewwwwwww!!!!! ewwww!!!!!!! ewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!! all i could do was scream!!!!!!!!!!!!! i mean of course i was laughing as well because i alway laugh but i was SO grossed out!!!!!!!!!!!! so then after the play we went to g&d's to get some ice cream and it was fabulously delicious as usual : ) then saturday sarah and lisa and i went to LONDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! i had the most fabulous time EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so we left the house at the insane hour of eight and were at the bus station at eight thirty. then we bought a pack of twelve tickets and went to board the bus. well the driver was in a very grumpy mood. sarah put the ticket in the wrong way and it spit it back out at her and she couldnt figure out how to do it, so the driver yelled "bloody rubbish! just get on!" so the bus ride was about an hour and a half and some alarm resounded throughout the bus for about half that time... good thing i was asleep! : ) so once we got off the bus we headed straight for buckingham palace. its so HUGE!!! we were really looking forward to seeing the changing of the guards but it turns out that in september they only change every other day and we happened to be there on an off day... oh well, we will save that for another time. took a tour of the states rooms which was really cool. we got a free audio tour which was nice because you can go at your own pace and you dont have to listen to it if you dont want to. that took about an hour and a half. then after that we went to the gift shop and i bought presents for my family. i cant wait to show them!! and i bought myself a little girls shirt thats light pink and in sliver glitter it says "pussy cat pussy cat where have you been?" on the front and then on the back it says "ive been to london to see the queen" its really cute : ) so then we bought a day pass at the subway station and headed to leicester square to buy discount tickets to see chicago on broadway!! : ) and we got a good deal, 21.50 per person. so then we walked around leicester square a bit and then got back on the subway to go to picadilly circus. that was pretty cool, its where they have that huge billboard i guess you could say, with mcdonalds signs and such. and we bought souvenir stuff at this little shop called fancy that. then we got back on the subway and headed to trafalgar square, where we took pictures at the fountain. but they had a concert and art tent and a bunch of stuff set up. then we realized that big ben and westminster abbey were right down the road. so we went to see them, and houses of parliament and the london eye(a big ferris wheel by the thames river), and take pictures. we wanted to take the tours but it was too late. so we are going to save that for another time. then we headed back to tralfagar square to eat dinner at the texas embassy cantina. it was SO good!!!! we had margaritas(YUMMY!!!!!!!!-i finally found an alcoholic drink that i like) and mexican food!!!!! it was SO SO SO good!!!!!!!!!!! then after that we walked around a bit more and realized that we could have walked everywhere instead of taking the subway. but now we are subway experts and it was fun : ) so then we headed to adelphi theatre for the show. we supposedly had "bad" seats but we could see the stage and the actors/actresses really well. but we moved down a few rows after the first act because there were alot of open seats. then after the show(which was SO FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) then we headed back to the subway station but decided to go see the thames at night because it was just on the other side of the station. it was really pretty! then we got on the subway and went to our bus stop and talked to two guys there. one really hated america and especially texas and george bush. he was hilarious! but his friend said he liked texas, but he was from sydney australia. so then we thought our bus had arrived but when we went to get on he said that the pickup stop was down the road and something something something, who knows why we couldnt have just gotten on there.... so we waited a few more minutes and another bus came by and we asked him where the stop was we were supposed to be at and he told us to get on and that he would take us there, he was very nice. so then we got on the right bus and it was the driver that left us at the stop was there along with another guy, who turned out to be our driver. so we talked to them for a while because we were the first ones on the bus and they were SO funny!!!!!! then we had an hour and a half trip back home on that bus. we were so exhausted by the time we got to oxford. and my feet were so dirty! it was disgusting!! i was planning on wearing my tennis shoes but i got "wounds" on my feet from walking in a new pair of shoes for too long and when i put my tennis shoes on that morning they were rubbing right where my "wounds" were and i wasnt even walking yet. so i had no choice but to wear my flip flops. they were comfortable but my feet just got really dirty... sickness!!!!!!! so anyways yeah london was a BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then on sunday i didnt do anything... slept til 1:30pm and then did a little homework and went to "nine at nine" and after that i called my grandmas house to talk to all of my family(we go over there every sunday after church). so then today was alright... class. then me and sarah and kelly and brent and josh went to the train station to buy tickets for our trip to snowdonia this weekend. that was an interesting excursion... the train man was very mean but he said "cheers" after every sentence, it was SO annoying!!! anyways so then we had to get a rail pass so we could get a third off and to get that pass we had to have a passport size picture... yeah like i keep those in my back pocket... so they had this convenient little booth right there for people like us. well it cost 3.50 and it took four pictures so since there were six of us we jumped in one right after the other. you are supposed to sit there and get four pics taken but we had four ppl share one roll. so we had this little jump in jump out act lol everyone in the train station was staring at us. it was SO funny!!!!!! so i think thats about it.... theres a fair here in oxford that most people are at. me and sarah didnt go, im not much of a fair person. plus i really should be working on my homework... oh well. so im gonna go try to load all my pictures onto a website so all yall can see them!! ~jen

from the mouth of courtney:" i am getting tired of her telling me what to do ...squash, whatever like its a vegetable anyway" only a few people on this trip, or those that know the british language, will get this : )