Last night we gave it 35%

Me and Dan went to see Against Me! in Manchester yesterday. Staci was nice enough to meet us at the train station and show us around a bit. Dan was a little worried about getting mugged. He left this picture on his camera just in case...

We met Andrew before the show which was awesome, he sweats a lot.

I got the set list

and a pick

and pushed off stage as soon as I got on

but as soon as he pushed me off these two girls hoped on stage and the roadie let them hang out for a minute, i guess i should have boobs next time i try to get on stage.
Its ok though, i got on again at the end and sang we laugh at danger with Tom, who had a scraggly beard goin.


We missed our train home by 2 minutes so we had to hop a bus at midnight, but it all worked out.

Halloween pics coming soon...

Canoe Polo

Hello all, so last week i witnessed the greatest sport ever invented. Its called canoe polo and I will get to it in a minute. There are also lots of pictures i've been meaning to put up so i guess i will start from the start.

So we went out on Thursday night. On the way home we met these hippies, biff and jane. Biff has some cool dreads and may or maynot have been high out of his mind. Saturday we went out and watched Liverpool play their cross town rivals Everton. Its like sox vs cubs. The game was pretty rediculous, 2 red cards, 2 penalty kicks and an own goal. Liverpool won, which was awesome. Now they are 4th in the premiership and still undefeated.

Later we went out again to watch England vs South Africa in the rugby world cup finals. England lost. Prince Harry cried. i thoght there were going to be riots but everyone was pretty tame.


Afterwards we went out to this classy bar that almost didn't let me in, cause... well... we all know i'm not classy. They had some feather girls dancing and flower petals falling everywhere and 8 pound drinks (like the money pounds not the weight. Its metric here anyway so you should probably have figured that out) which i didn't get but some people liked 'em. after that we met up with our hippie friends at their way to nice for hippies apartment. There are some videos to come maybe, we will see how they turn out.



The next morning we walked down to the waterside and saw the coolest sport ever, canoe polo. (I don't know why they call it canoe polo since it is kayaks it should be called kayak polo but i didn't call em out on it.) They invited us back next week, I think they want us to join. But that shit is cold so I will probably pass, but someday....

Oh and we fed some seagulls


And they finished the China town arch.



Here's the picture that brought about the term Flemming Time. Actually a better way to put it is this picture is a result of Flemming Time.



Oh and if you preheat your ovens before you make frozen pizza, STOP! Its a conspiracy, the gas companies and the pizza manufacturers are in cahoots to sell more gas. good watching out.

Flemming Time

Exciting news everyone, we now have a light in our bathroom! No more showering in the dark for me.

On another note, thank god for bit torrent. i don't know what I would do without The Office and Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. i would probably have to watch The EastEnders or something.

Lots of people have asked me what England is like, so i made a little list of things British people love.

- Belts with words studded or bedazzled onto them. Such as: Rock star, rebel, and Rock Out
- Asking me if i have been to the OC.
- Fancy dress (AKA themed ho outfits)
- Guy fox day
- Fighting
- Asking me if I have been to NYC
- Not assigning homework at University
- Calling college "Uni"
- The queen
- Rain
- Baked beans
- Asking me why the hell I would come to Liverpool
- Primark
- V-neck shirts
- Marmite
- Scarves
- Charging per TV you own
- Beating the French at Rugby







11 more days till Nip/Tuck... anyone else excited?

Duck!

Watch out all you Americans abroad! The US state department has issued a Worldwide Caution Public Announcement, which means what exactly? I don't know, but thanks state department for that.


But anyways... i think i went on a tangent. Whats new in England? Last night we went to the Cavern, this cool underground venue/Beatles hot spot. There just happen to be a Beatles cover band playing. People were loving it. Oh and we went to punk rawk night, i totally got digits from this dj. his name is pete and he likes the lawrence arms. how exciting. oh and i met a british girl named georgia, which kind of confused me. And no joke, 9 out of 10 british people i have talked that have been to the us have been to hotlanta. I think i underestimated the drawing power of the dirty south.

Ancora un po

Day 2




Day 2 started with us going to Lake Garda. We spent the day walking around, visiting castles and eating really expensive food and drinking really expensive wine. Thanks Karen! I think America needs more castles, I mean we have that one in Orlando but other then that they are kinda scarce.

Here is the store where Karen got tricked by an old Italian lady into sniffing a garlic bulb then quickly got yelled at by the owners. There were about 15 signs in different languages saying DON'T TOUCH PRODUCE!



We walked around a bit, checked out the town, then went back and ate next to the arena which we visited the next day.



Day 3

So they bolted down seats on the inside of the arena which kinda takes away from the place a little, but it was still very cool.

In the afternoon we tried to go to a vinyard, but it was raining and they were closed, so me and Shannon went to get some wine for dinner, which wasn't as easy as it sounds because we don't speak italian, and the cabby didn't speak english. He was trying to find us another vinyard and we just wanted anyplace that sold wine so after about 10 minutes of english and italian flying around he called his friend who spoke a little english and had him translate for us. He found us a good place and we inivted him up to eat with us but we weren't having any carne so he passed.

I tried helping with dinner for about 5 seconds but i was just getting in the way, so I sat in the corner and drank wine while everyone else cooked.

Laura and I took a cab out the next morning. We accidentally called 2 cabs which pissed off the cabby and made the ride a little awkward.



Thats about it. I'll leave you guys with a video from italian MTV

Ciao!

Che fa? Me? Well I am back in cloudy old England after a few days in sunny Verona. I didn't get to meet Gattuso but it is so nice to be able to understand people again! Italy was amazing though. I've never seen so much pasta, sunglasses, and chest hair in my life. I think I will learn some of the language before I go back though. Thank god Shannon and laura were with us because I have a feeling we wouldn't have run into so many friendly Italian men without them. My aunt and cousins have the lions share of the photos so I will put up some more in a week or two when they get back in the states. Till then here is a little recap.




Day 1
The flight in to Venice was awful. I felt like my sinuses were going to explode the whole way. Luckily they didn't and I hoped a bus, to hop a train, to go to Verona. I met the sweetest old Filipino lady on the bus, she just talked and talked and talked and she forgot to buy a bus ticket but she was old so it was OK.

She had been to Liverpool once. For what you ask! A quilting society meeting? A bake sale? To eat some scouse? Nope, all wrong. A Euthanasia conference! How charming. although on second thought she could have meant "Youth in Asia" conference... but seriously that just makes no sense.


So I got into Verona and met up with my Aunt, two of her friends Jeanie and Penny, and two of my cousins Laura and Shannon. We saw what was supposedly Juliet's house, then we ate at what was supposedly Romeo's house (both of which I am sure are tourist traps but I love tourist traps so it worked out well for me). At dinner one of Karen's friends, Penny, signed the reservation book thinking it was a register where people from around the world left their mark, this was after they exited the bathroom* together which turned some heads, but before Jeanie hung out the second story window looking for her nephew. I think when we left they weren't to broken up about it.

*In Italy many of the bathrooms are just a hole in the floor which made things interesting for the ladies. Also they have pay toilettes everywhere! Which kind of suck. I though the right to pee was inalienable across the world. Guess not.

Check out the diggs. Pretty swanky. Pretty much the opposite of what mine and Dan's European travels are going to be like in December.




more stories soon...