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| The one and only Abbey Road! Don't tell my mom, the trip is a surprise!! Get this: when we tried to set up a picture at a different intersection, a cabbie stopped and told us we were at the wrong one. Unfortunately--as you can see--the people didn't want to stop for our picture. Ah well. | Kat and I in Trafalgar Square. Luckily enough, the day was gorgeous for walking about. There was a tiny bit of rain, but hey, that's London. | On Sunday night of 10 day, I visited the Glenny homestead where the Roycrofts' lived--Noel, Ruth, Rachel, Colin, Aaron, and Larissa (8 1/2 months--adorable!!!) What an adventure! |
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| The caves near Ballymote, Keshcorran Caves to be exact. They're formed from undergound water wearing away at the limestone karsts and then going deeeeep into the hill, about 5 km down in some cases. I didn't go that far down, obviously. I just bummed about the entrance. | We went investigating in hopes of finding my 4 great-grandfather's grave, but to no avail. This is the cemetary that I talked about in my Xanga, the Killoran Cemetary, not the one at the church. *sighs* I hope someday my writing conveys what I felt there. | Hurrah for Irish pubs! Of course, we weren't in a pub. We met to play some pool and make some pharses. That's Kalle with the red hair, Richard on the other side of Kat, and Howard has the black hair. Just so you can identify the Pharses with their staters. |
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| I got to go up by the Isle of Inisfree and talk to my 3rd cousin, twice removed, Lucy Roycroft, Sarah & Noel's mother. I was proud that I could understand her accent, and we talked a bit about when she lived on the Glenny land and working in the bogs. It was going back in time, hardcore. Plus, listening to the lake was a new experience, with the fog everywhere and a red glow behind the hills that looked like Mordor. | London was attacked by German bombers in WW II in a terrific event called the Blitz Krieg. Afterwards, when the city was being repaired, they decided to leave some of the evidence around as proof of the horror and what war can bring. | We lived maybe 5 blocks from the Natural History Museum, mostly like the Natural Science Museum of Chicago. All sorts of natural exhibits, hence why we had most of our Geology labs here. |
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