Part II-3. Let's Eat some British Breakfast

It had been a while since I wrote a post.. so I had to read the post that I posted. Wasn't hard though; I read the last sentence and knew exactly where I was. Before we get to that, my bad if you guys were waiting for my post. I had to take this Korean Proficiency test on Saturday in order to apply for med schools, but it was pretty hard, so I had to take a couple of days to take it in. Anyways...

 As I was saying, we were hungry, and there were lots of restaurants in the area that we could go to. I wanted some cheap, filling food, like some Mexican food. But.. my brother wanted breakfast.. hey, who doesn't like breakfast? Well, I don't really like breakfast that much. He was the older one though, so we went into this place called Huxley's Bar & Kitchen. I wish I'd taken a shot of the restaurant, but it wasn't looking that nice from outside anyways. I don't know if this is an Europe thing, but pretty much all the (nice) restaurants seemed to have menus outside for people to see what they want to eat, or if they can afford it (this is me). You can kind of see what the place looks like from the picture, but you see a couple of guys at the bar, and the entrance was to the right of that. We sat in the corner (always). 

 This guy came over to get the order almost immediately after we sat down. And started talking. I was holding my iPad, and he wanted to exchange breakfast for it. He was just joking, but kind of got scared for a second because he almost sounded serious. This guy. Anyways, I ordered 'The Big Breakfast' you see on the left except the sausages and this guy said, "you mean, 'The Great Britain Breakfast'?" I was like, "Yeah, I  guess?" This guy (don't know his name, gonna call him Tommy, although he looks more like Liam; I like Liam Neeson), he was literally talking to us for like 10 minutes talking about how we're from America (from the accent), how he came in at 5am, and how 'The GB Breakfast' is like the most typical breakfast you'd eat in UK. Tommy was a typical British guy though; he kept calling me and my brother 'mate'. 

Finally, Tommy got our orders in. I ordered that 'The GB Breakfast' and my brother ordered 'The GB Breakfast' without the beans and mushrooms, which was 'Huxley Single Breakfast'. It would've been a whole lot easier at the waffle house ordering that all star special. My brother also ordered a sweet tea (haha), and Tommy said, "You mean, like an iced tea with extra sugar? We've got Lemon and Peach, which one you want, mate?" I thought it was kind of funny how he said 'extra sugar', and my brother got that 'Peach flavored Iced Tea'. Just FYI, I'm reading off of a receipt that I kept. No way I can remember all the names (It's a great way to keep your memories, too). On the receipt it literally says, '1 GB Breakfast, 1 HUX SGL Breakfast, 1 Peach Iced Tea'. Now that I look at it again, Tommy's name was actually VIRU. Such a british name... NOT. What IS Viru anyway?

 Now we waited. This is actually the reason we got in here first place. If you remember, we wanted to eat, but we also wanted to kill time, too. There were lots of 'British' paintings/pictures on the wall. Maybe I'll visit this London Eye sometime.

 This was just an interesting pic. Don't know why it was there. I guess they were protesting about something by wearing speedos and bikinis.

 Thought this was a cool pic though. I guess this was London like a long time ago. 

The harry potter sauce? I think this was a steak sauce, but do they have these in America?

I guess I never took a closer look at splenda packets. And 'Apply liberally' sounded pretty weird to me, too.

 I know, right? I'm taking pics of sugar packets. The food sure took long enough. 

As much as I want to comment on every pic I've taken, It's kind of hard to do on pics like this one.

 FINALLY! First things first. This ain't a tailgate before Georgia game, but baked beans? And tomatoes? And mushrooms? The beans were pretty good though, to be honest. And tomatoes weren't bad either. It's just that I don't think I'd ever had beans and tomatoes for breakfast. It was kind of weird, but what the heck we're in Europe. 

The hash browns were very over-fried. I guess that's how brits like 'em. As for the eggs, I specifically asked Viru that what was the most popular type of eggs in UK. And he said it was fried over-medium. So there it was. He also told me to dip the toast in it with ketchup. Some of you may think that's nasty, but it was pretty good. The bacon was the bomb though.

 That stuff was good. I like my bacon to be soft rather than hard/overcooked. It also went pretty well with those whole mushrooms. 
This is my brother's plate.. I had a bite of that sausage, and it reminded me of how much I didn't like sausage. They tasted almost the same with the American ones. 

 Here's that 'Peach Tea'; maybe they actually brewed down the tea, cooled it down, and brought it; that takes about 30 minutes, right? I had a sip of it, and it was pretty good actually. But it cannot beat the strawberry lemonade from the Mama's Boy. That stuff is good, if yall haven't tried it. 

Even the napkin had the 'Great Britain' sticker on it, this restaurant was all about the British. 

Even though the toast wasn't toasted enough for my taste, toast & butter wasn't bad. Put the egg yolk and ketchup on it, it was even better. 

Finally the cool lighting. All in all the breakfast at Huxley's wasn't bad at all. The GB Breakfast was 7.75, Single Breakfast was 6.75, and the 'extra sugar' peach tea was 2.75, all in British Pounds. So it was a bit pricey (about $30 with tip) and we would regret this later, but I'd say it was better than sitting around for 4 hours doing nothing. If you want to visit Huxley's it's in Terminal 5, left hand side when you come out of the security, upstairs. Look for Tommy, and by that I mean Viru. I wanted to post this earlier so you guys could read it after classes, but I didn't wanna divide up the post again. I should warn you though, we did take some 3k pics, but they are not nearly as detailed as this first meal. Not even close. But there ARE 3k pics you're gonna see, so wait for 'em. 

Part II-2. Exploring the Heathrow Airport

After a thorough scanning of our stuff (twice), we finally got to our terminal and got us a couple of chairs, before I decided to kill some time by walking around the terminal. At this point, I had almost forgotten that it was Christmas. And obviously, the big trees reminded me. 

The tree might not look that big, but it was pretty dang big and was flashing.  

 This is pretty much what the terminal looked like. It had shops after shops for like 100 yards. And we're not talking about same-old Starbucks sitting in every five shops in Atlanta Concourses. It's more like a couple of duty-free stores in International wing in Hartsfield-Jackson E Concourse. But like 10 times bigger. It was more like a mall. 

 I don't know if you know, but I'm not real big on shopping. But there are some stores that I can go in & stay for hours such as Academy Sports, Dick's, and Best Buy. Well, there was this electronics store in here, and I decided I needed an extra microSD card cuz my phone was running out of spaces. It wasn't too overpriced, so it was a good buy.

I did other things too, like walking around sports stores overwhelmed by Manchester United stuff. I also bought some postcards (this is my tradition when I go overseas), and some key chains. 

Some Brits are also gangstas like some UGA athletes, or all of the athletes. I think I even saw Drew Butler wear these Beats by Dr. Dre once, and he's like the whitest athlete on campus. I remember them being quite expensive though, even more so than the US.






Another Christmas tree; I think that there were about three throughout the terminal. I'm sure there were more in other terminals though.

...And here is the pic of other terminal over the windows. Apparently, there are like 5 terminals in Heathrow, so that gives about 15 Christmas trees, pretty cool. There were all kinds of people at the airport; I noticed a high Indian/Middle Eastern population, people sleeping, college kids going on trips, and many different types of languages hovering around us. 

We were munching on the beef jerkies that we had for a while, but we got tired of it soon. So we decided to go to a restaurant to kill time and eat some good food. At least until now, money wasn't an issue. We wanted some GOOD (and filling) food. 

Part II-1. Getting into London

Originally, visiting London was not in the plan. This plan, however, was changed after I found the cheapest ticket to Frankfurt stopping over at LHR airport. Since we were already going to be in London, I looked for tickets that had 6+ hour stopover so we could have a chance to go out into the city real quick and see the Big Ben, the London Eye, whatnot. But I couldn't find such ticket, so we had to stay in the airport for 4+ hours. 


Getting into London via airplane was rough, at least for me anyway. I usually don't have any problem sleeping in airplanes, I usually take a nap at least. BUT, I couldn't sleep at all and was awake the ENTIRE way. oh well. About hour before landing they served us with breakfast. Though this was a 'light' meal, it was good nonetheless. Here's are some pics. 

It didn't look that good to start with, because they basically just threw the box at us, but It was quite good actually. The juices that you get in the airplanes are somehow always better than the store-bought ones; maybe that's just me. But that muffin with raisins in it was really good. I don't know about the name of the breakfast box though...

And apparently, Brits like raisins a lot. They just had like a box of raisins in it. I know the raisins are good for you (and they tell you on the box) but unlike Blair Walsh, I can make field goals. I don't know why. It's kind of hard to see, but those little baked-cracker-things on the bottom were good too. 

And... a few minutes later, we landed at London Heathrow International. Before we actually land though, remember I couldn't sleep? So I made a vague (pretty specific, actually) plan of our trip, while my brother was taking a nice nap. This is out of the journal. 

So, here's a rough plan as of right now (morning of Dec. 25th). Spend the night in Frankfurt, go around and see the city on the 26th and get to Heidelberg by the night of 26th. Visit the city/castle of Heidelberg on the 27th and get to Munich. Visit the Neuschwanstein Castle on the 28th in Fussen, Germany, and tour the city Munich until the 29th night when we get to Innsbruck, Austria. After that, Zurich 30th, Geneva 31st & 1st, Paris 2nd & 3rd, Milan 4th & 5th, Venice 6th, and Pisa & Rome on the 7th thru 9th. 

Once again, this was the rough plan AT THAT TIME. This does not guarantee that we went to every city/country on that list. From the start, we did not have any definitive plans except the fact that we were going to start the journey in Frankfurt, and end in Rome, from which we will fly to Korea. First things first, we were going to safely transfer first in London and explore the airport to see what Brits had to offer. 

 I already told you we arrived on this plane. After getting off, I was able to get Boingo Wi-Fi real quick with my phone and called my parents to let 'em know that we safely made it. FYI, Boingo offers $7.95/month plan for up to 3(I think) mobile devices. I used it a lot in public settings such as airports, train stations, even in the train once. I think it was worth it, but you HAVE to call them to cancel this 'recurring' subscription. 

 And we had to take a train to go from the C Gates to the Flight Connections. You'd think we were fresh off the plane and were very excited to be in England, right? Well, I guess my brother may have been, but not me, I was tired feeling as if I had pulled an overnighter (technically, I did).

We didn't get the pic of the train, but it was nothing special. Usual 3-4 cars linked train that you see in Atlanta or other large hub airports. 

 As we got out of the train, the transferring passengers were divided into groups, domestic or international. The airport, so far, looked pretty clean and efficient, and obviously waaay fancier than Atlanta. I really liked these lights. The picture doesn't exactly show the feel of these lights, but they were cool. 








               See? told you they were cool. Maybe not for some of you, but this kind of lighting gives a modern look when used repetitively like the picture below, but also natural feel because the pipes and a/c are exposed. It's 'open' if you will, makes me breathe easier. 

Now that I think back to it, there were a lot of people on a holiday like Christmas. This was kind of surprising because one of the reasons we didn't go into London was because I read that London is 'dead' on Christmas, meaning no transportation. But... I guess some people were busy getting to their homes to unwrap some presents with their kids. 

 We found our Frankfurt flight from one of those big transfer/departure screens and found out that our flight was flying out of the Terminal 5. Pretty much, we showed them the boarding passes and they checked the sizes of our carry-on bags to see if they fit in our new plane... and of course mine didn't. I wanted to keep it, but I had to check it in. This was good AND bad. It was good because I didn't have to watch my bag for 4 hours while my brother carried around his. And it was bad because we wasted a couple of minutes at the baggage claim in Frankfurt later. 


postscript; Just for you guys' info, I can write in detail now that I have a lot of pics to work with; they bring back my memories. And we did take some 3k pics, but some are repetitive and not as detailed as the first few days. And give me some feedbacks (as this post is what the rest'll look like), are these posts too long, short, lacking pics, too much writing? what do you guys think?

Part I. Getting into the Plane

What would you like to do with your last couple of $20's in the airport? get some Atlanta souvenir? have your shoes cleaned? exchange with euros?


WRONG. well, not wrong, you can do whatever you want with it. but we went to wendy's. Come on, wendy's doesn't exist, hell, there aren't even any redheads in korea. That last baconator with some swite tie (it's how I say sweet tea, for those who don't know lol) was unforgettable. But I still had some moneys leftover, so I bought that journal, some gum & candies, and a sports illustrated. I had like 13 cents leftover, so I gave it to that cashier who sold me that SI. I thought at the time, and I think now that those were some good buy's. Especially when the train ride gets lengthier, an issue of SI gives you the relief from boredom with sports, well, and some girls every few pages. Not that you need to see American girls in Europe, no offence girls; my brother commented that Europe is like Kohl's. Cuz there are so many manikins walking around, men & women. 


Anyway, we got on that plane at around 8:55pm. I told you exit row gave us some extra leg room, but there's one more. Because the exit row is located in the very front of the economy seats and the business class is rarely full, you can store your stuff in the business class overheads. It might not seem that big, but you can get in & out fast, and well, there are some delicious cookies in the biz class. Another tip. If you couldn't get an exit row, just wait as long as you can from the check-in desk downstairs. The planes are almost always overbooked, which means, if you end up not having an assigned seat, they might bump you to the fancy seats, give you voucher, or may even offer cash. And believe me, business/first class is where you want to be. 


It may just be the fantasy of my own (aside from anything related to the flight attendants), but you always hope for that hot girl or guy seating next to you in the airplane-it's just better that way (whether or not you go for that mile-high club, what?!). It's better to meet them in the business class so you can pretend like you're a millionaire, but obviously this time through, I was in economy writing in a journal when this girl walked in and sat on that window seat next to me. This is good, just because it's a girl. Guys are boring in the airplanes. She was brunette, long wavy hair, and was pretty short but fit as well. What attracted me more than here cute face was the fact that she had a heavy British accent!! I've heard guys talking about how they have a thing about foreign accents, but never believed it, because I guess if you live in the states, you get too americanized. But this girl was all-out Brit, who wouldn't tell me anything except that she was a student. She was very talkative and friendly. STOP. right there. I wish I was writing some kind of a novel and could expand on this the way I want. You know, we got close talking during the entire 8-hour ride, and we had breakfast when we got off, she invited me to go somewhere with her, this and that... NO. That doesn't happen in reality. I'll expand on this later (There's not much more). 


I don't know this for sure, but when I told some of you, you wanted to know everything I did and ate. So here it goes. As soon as the plane was parallel to the ground again, the (british) stewardesses started serving wine. I guess that meant drink and sleep. No, seriously, that's what they mean. If you guys are going on some long international flights (including hawaii i guess) if you follow the sleep cycle the airplane provides with the lights, you'll have a shorter jetlag. This was a red wine called Palacio de Bezares, standard 12.5% 6.3oz; it was good, but strong. Anyway, as far as that story with the girl goes, after about 5 minutes after she drank this, she slept through the entire way until the plane wasn't parallel again. And she took the food to go. Pretty realistic, huh? 


Here's the description of that dinner though, served around 10pm: 

The dinner is finally served!! Obviously, my brother has been saying, "Either turn off the lights or bring us food!" in Korean, obviously. The dinner was, another glass of the same wine, coffee, Lasagna (or Turkey with veggies) and potatoes, Canadian Nanton water, a roll with butter, blueberry pie, and a salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette. This Spanish wine will knock me out in a second. The salad was Very good. The lasagna was ok, I though the cheese was not melted and it was vegetarian. The coffee is excellent, good hazelnut. 

 No pictures of this meal, unfortunately... my phone was in my bag. But later in the journal it says,

I guess Ashley's 'virtual trip' started off on a wrong button because I forgot to take pictures of airplane & stuff. But I just went and got my camera, so I'll take a good pic of the breakfast and landing to London Heathrow. Maybe I can get a wifi signal in London and post some stuff to my blog. and Ashley, if you're reading this, I brought your sheet, just for the record. Alright, I'm out, see yall on the Christmas Day in London, time to change my watch to Greenwich, 3:41am

For those who don't know about this, Ashley is my roommate's girlfriend (hence, my roommate) who wanted me to take the piece of paper in which she wrote places I should visit and things I should eat. Did I do it? neh. maybe a little. In the journal, I wrote some useless stuff too like the direction the toilet water flushes; in Northern hemisphere, it rotates clockwise, but in Southern, it's counter clockwise, but in the airplanes, it's straight. Yeah.. i'm weird, but whatever. pics pics pics, next post!

Pre-Trip

The pic above was taken at around 10:00am in London, and it is of the very plane we took from Atlanta to London. Non-stop for 8 hours. Though that plane wasn't small, it was an old Boeing, so the legroom was... it wasn't there. Luckily we checked in early online 24hours before the departure so we got that exit row seats. We also downloaded the boarding passes to my phone and iPad, so we just walked through the security showing our things.. I thought it was kinda cool. But before we get to that plane ride, lets review what we've packed in our bags..


My backpack was something exactly like this one...

And my brother had a puma backpack that was about 1/2 size of mine (you'll see throughout the pics, im sure.) I bought it at the Academy sports & outdoors for $99 along with some 32oz water bottles, Brita water bottle with filters, Coleman 110 lumens flashlight, and some cheap climbing links. Most of the time, the bottles were hanging from the bag, to put more things inside the bag. 

Clothes: When I went to see someone who had eurotripped before, he told me to cut whatever I had packed in half... I left some things out.. and packed about 60% of what I originally had.. but I wish I had packed like 20% and get a smaller bag. Somewhere along the trip, you realize that you're in Europe to see the places. After a month, I don't remember what kinda clothes I were during the trip, I remember seeing the places. So don't spend $100 on a backpack, save some for nice dinner in Geneva overlooking the Alps. 

Among other things we had, are flip-flops, a pen and a journal, under armours(it was cold), gloves, maps, iPad (extremely handy & strongly recommended), a sports tape, small first-aid kit, toothbrush/paste, and some pills for indigestion, aches and stuff. We also had 2 big packs of beef jerkies (you can take these through the security b/c they're dry).

Among the things we wish we had, are a knife (we bought it in germany), body spray (trust me, you'll need this; we bought it in Hungary), one of those universal outlet plug kit things, sunglasses, and extra batteries for cameras/phones. 

The things is though, that we didn't check any bags in, which means we couldn't take knives or sprays. But it wasn't bad; in fact, a good choice to not check the bags cuz im sure it saved us some valuable time not checking the bags to see if it's yours at the baggage claim. 

My brother also brought this foreign-currency-safe credit card that doesn't charge for foreign transactions. My visa charged like a dollar every time I used it, so it could come in handy. 

The First Journal Post

The pic above is an actual pic of my journal that I kept for the trip. There's not a lot of in it but This post is dated on 12/24/11 7:02pm ET which is about 2 hour before I left Atlanta, the following is exactly how i wrote.

Waiting for my flight to Londong @ 8:40pm in connection to Frankfurt, DE. Bittersweet. As long as this word(bittersweet) is, my thoughts are getting longer & deeper as the boarding time approaches. Should I call everyone I knew in the States, for it may be the last time I will be in the US? With this train of thought, I sincerely thank Alex and his family. I knew for a fact that I wouldn't have been able to do something Mr. Butler has done for me and Alex. Driving 14 hour straight is one thing, but doing it with 5 of your family members had just passed is another. This maybe childish, but I wanted to do that handshake so bad and call him 'Alright, b'. Until last night I didn't think this would happen, so I did it with Ashley on Thursday. But when Alex texted me last night, 'we're about to just drive all night, and I will come see you'. I really felt blessed because, really, honestly, that's all I could ask for, as I just said on Facebook, 'it's been fun 6 years, America, see you soon.' and told Alex and Ashley that I will come back here(georgia) in 2014 for Tennessee game. I can only hope that 'the handshake' is due in 2 & a half years. @ 7:22pm ET.

Now that I think back to this moment, I can really see that I was really thinking deeply.. And some of the things I wrote are true even till now. That writing may just be the last thing I ever did in the US. Things have also changed a lot. 


I live in Korea now, pretending like I've lived here my whole life, to re-learn the language and culture. And by language and culture, I mean I'm fluent, but it's like I lived in Spain for like 6 years and have that accent and have no idea about the new slangs. But in a couple of months, I'll be as good as my friends who have lived here for their entire lives. 


In a way this is kind of a scary thought. And makes me graceful at the same time. If you're reading this now, the chances are that you know me, and know me pretty well, some more than others. Some of you have lived with me, and maybe their girlfriends too ;). But right now, we're 7300 miles apart. 


For example, when I was in a Middle 1st grade at White Horse Middle school in Horsehead Town, living in the shady second floor of 15-story Chunggu apartment complex, going to tutoring after school until 10pm, and wearing that green uniform of ours, I didn't know a lick of English. Well, maybe I knew 'Hi', 'Hello', 'How are you?' and such, but that's it. But some of you may have went to Austin Road Elementary School, in back-then-redneck Henry County, living on an empty street in a shiny two story house with an entertainment room in the basement, wearing that sweatshirt of a team that his/her dad is cheering for, going hunting on the weekends, but not speaking Korean (the real chances are s/he probably didn't even know where Korea was, Idk). 


The funny thing is, not even ten years after, we are not only acquaintances but are friends. With the earth's population over 7 billion now, breaking this slim chance of meeting this person is amazing. I know some of you readers aren't Christians, but for me this is the proof. 


postscript, this post may have been a little personal, but I wanted to post that first journal post on here, once i get to the european stories, i'm sure it'll be more general. feel free to comment, people, in fact, I insist you to comment and express your opinions.

The Arriving Stats

As some of you may know I'm all about stats. This is why I like baseball too. 


Anyways, we got on this British Airways flight 225 (bought as Iberia 4646, cuz it was cheaper) departing Atlanta at 8:40pm on Saturday night. It was an old boeing (777) flight and It departed about 16 minute late but arrived just about on time in London Heathrow at around 9:45am Christmas day local time. It's an old plane with cramped seats, but you see that seat #26? That's right, that's an aisle seat b's. Oh, and it took 4198 miles and 7 hours and 49 minutes. 


After waiting about 4 hours, we got on this nice-empty-Airbus 319 British 908 with plenty of legroom. And after a couple of hours, we touched down at Frankfurt at around 4:50pm. This took 2 hours and 40 minutes 406 miles. This ticket was bought at cheapoair.com (the website everybody thinks has a sketchy name) 29 days before the day of departure at $519.90 per person. 


Some tips on booking an airline ticket----------------
I spent about a month looking for this, so if you're planning on a trip, anything around this price is probably your best option. Also, certain routes (to London, Madrid, or Luxemburg) or airlines (Iberia and local connections like Berlin Air) are good choices. The tickets are at their lowest prices about 3 weeks before the day of travel. 1 stop tickets are the cheapest to buy from websites and there ARE cheaper, more stopping tickets, but the websites can't look for the cheapest one even though they claim to. For example, I bought Johnny's tickets from Seoul to Atlanta, but I bought Seoul to Beijing to LAX and LAX to Atlanta separately. I find Cheapoair.com and Orbitz.com offer cheaper tickets than other websites. For some routes, one is cheaper than the other, but cheaper than other websites I've compared with. I'll give some more tips if you guys want.--------------


I've booked our first night at the Five Element Hostel in Frankfurt prior to the trip for 36 euros for 2 people excluding 10 dollar Hostelworld.com gold card. We used this website for 5 nights, so all in all it's a good deal. I'll continue on this later

The Trip

So here's the basic layout of the trip..


As you know, I was on my way home, Korea, after the graduation, and my brother and I decided visit a few countries in between US and Korea.. which are like a lot of countries.
We left on the night of Christmas eve on Dec. 24th and visited Germany via UK, France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, and Italy. We got home in the evening on January 10th. It felt real long at the time, but now that it's been over a month since I've been to Europe, it feels really short now. 


I kept a small journal with me at the beginning of the trip, but then I got lazy... It's got some real detailed parts, while it's missing some parts. I'm gonna be looking that over as I'll break this trip down. 

I'm keeping the promise...

Alright guys,


So I told you some of you that I would post the pics.. and I'm gonna post them starting today!
I originally had them on Tumblr but people couldn't comment on them.. so feel free to visit my blog and comment on them. My brother and I took a lot of pics so there'll be a lot of posts, if i'm not busy. 

Europe Pics Coming Soon

Alright, 

so it’s been almost 10 days since I got back from Europe. 

Things are not falling in as I thought they would, and apparently I’ve decided to study to get into medical school.. it’s in August/September.

My stuff is still floating somewhere in the Pacific and Tumblr is not compatible with iPad.. so stay tuned for pic’s.

Hopefully the spring semester is going well for those who are still in school.

(January 20)

Having some starbucks after shipping off all my stuff, just chillin. This gingerbread latte is really good. 5 days till europe and the end of the us… This must be the definition of bittersweet. With my bro and fake sis. Looking forward to ice skating with Willis tomorrow. Just hard to think that it may have been the last time to see people that I saw last week.. ever. maybe I’ll come back in a couple of years.


(December 19)

The Last Sunday

It was a great day at the church. Many things to celebrate among the congregation, ben sanders getting back from the afghanistan, me graduating, my brother coming from korea, etc. Katie’s sing was beautiful even though she admitted later that she was nervous at the time. Great to see everyone the Kelley’s, Aldridge’s, Coles, whitford’s, evans’s, etc. It really made my heart warm when mr bobby evans called out jonny for getting out of the army. I’m sure my brother felt welcome. The dinner at the coles was definitely unforgettable, with good turkey burgers, beans, broccoli salads, pita chips and spinach dip, mario carts, and wii sports. I couldn’t believe how nice people were, and really makes me want to come back so bad. One can only hope…


(December 19)

Laundry never ends.


(December 18)

Mattew’s the man; even tho that buck is little, better than alex who always “sees” the deer, but never gets any. I want some deer jerky before I leave.

(December 17)

Packing, packing, packing. Better hurry, they’re coming on Monday to pick em up. Good times at Kilfoyle’s; delicious dinner and quality conversations were good-also good to see brandon growing up. Excited but sad to see the kelley family for the “last time” tomorrow.


(December 17)

Sanford Stadium:

This is actually a footage of my last visit to Sanford Stadium. As an undergraduate, I hold an 18-6 record in 4 years and I haven’t missed a single second of Georgia Bulldogs home games from ‘08-‘11. 

As much as I have a lot to say about Sanford Stadium and the Dawags, I have two words besides ‘Go Dawgs’.

‘Keith Marshall’

(December 16)

The Arch:

Everyone I know didn’t go through that arch because they were worried that they were going to fail. Well, I actually went through it at the Freshman Orientation, and been doing it since, but I’ve graduated-it’s just a myth. Thanks ms Cindy for taking this picture, you were like a mom to me this day.

(well, I still don’t have one of my grades up on Oasis, so we’ll see)

(December 16)

If you were at the Stegeman Coliseum to watch this guy speak, you know he was a good speaker. Talking about Wikipedia as our only source as college students and using faceBOOK and macBOOK as only books used, Trey Sinyard was awesome at the commencement.


(December 16)

December 16th of 2011 marks a very important date of my life-I’m now a post-grad. Can’t forget this day and thankful for my brother Jonathan, William, Sean, Ashley, Skye, Ms. Cindy, (and Alex from Albany, GA).

Traveling halfway around the world and Jonny; wearing blue shirt and Willis; bringing georgia football spirit with that polo shirt and big Mike; coming up to athens just to see me graduate (and hanging with Billy) and Skyes; waking up late and B; waking up waaaay to early and ms Cindy; hunting and (never getting any deer and) Dick.

With a beautiful (spring-like) weather and people (and food from Fatz), this day couldn’t have been any better. 

(December 16th)