30 days to go...

Today marks the start of my thirty day countdown. Thirty days to write, finalise, and submit my dissertation and thirty days until I'm back home. Today is my kitty Zeus' 9th birthday so thirty more days until I get to cuddle him. Zeus LOVES boxes (and items similar to boxes) so here is a compilation of some of his cutest box pictures.

 

 

 

 

Mom's Visit #3

Lastly, Mom and I took a trip to the Lake District in north-west England. It's a beautiful area and has been the prime vacation spot for hundreds of years! It's talk about in a lot of Jane Austen's novels. We just went to Windermere and stayed in the cute town of Bowness-on-Windermere and took a few day trips into the neighbouring towns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

All in all it was a great weekend with Mom! I miss her already!

Mom's Visit #2

The first weekend Mom was here, we took a quick trip down to Newcastle to see my cousin Julie and her husband Andreas. I had stayed with them for Thanksgiving but it was the first time Mom was able to see their new place in England! On Sunday we took a trip to Alnwick Castle (which had an amazing falconry presentation), the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland. It was a really awesome castle although we were mildly disappointed because the website promoted it as a Harry Potter castle but it turns out only a small scene from the first book was filmed there.

Andreas, Julie, and me

Whitley Bay

 

Alnwick Castle

 

 

 

 

Newcastle