The week that was...

Last Saturday, Katherine, her friend Lizzie, and I took a random trip to a little town called Ilkley which is near Leeds. Ilkley is in a valley, so when we were riding the bus there we drove on top of one of the hills on the side of the valley, and it was so cool because the sky was completely clear on the hills but the valley had been stuffed with clouds. It was just this huge run of clouds that went on for at least 5 minutes of driving. I really wanted to get a picture, but didn't for several reasons:
1) I was on a bus, which was moving, and I probably would've gotten a really blurry shot anyway
2) the bus windows were dirty = ugly picture
3) there were lots of trees on the side of the road = picture with lots of trees, not clouds
4) I was on the wrong side of the bus = dorky tourist girl rushing to the other side of the bus for a crappy picture of something really cool that everyone else on the bus probably sees everyday

When we got to Ilkley we looked around the shops and stuff...it's a very posh town...you know, the kind of people that go to the bakery and market everyday to get overpriced fancy food because "it tastes better". There was an old school sweet shop there with the candies in glass jars. They had maple walnut fudge! (which I bought, of course...and I'm pretty sure it was devoured in under 10 min.) While we were there we kind of thought it would be cool to make like a storyboard of our day so we decided to take pictures of everything we did...so I was the one nominated to ask the candyman for a picture. Apparently it's not as bad if I do it cuz I'm a tourist. But he was pretty good about it, and actually smiled quite nicely for the shot. (oh boo! I just remembered that we took that pic on Katherine's camera and I haven't got the pics off of her yet...oh well I guess I'll load that link up later...)

After the shops we went to a pub for lunch, and it was an old pub...very traditional. Super slow service though...it took like 45 min. to get our food. But I got a proper roast dinner...roast pork, yorkshire pudding, peas, roasted potatoes and some sort of mashed carrot/turnip (i think) concoction.

Then, we decided we had to walk off the big dinners so we took a hike up the big hills at the other end of town. It gave a great view though!Katherine had a bit of fall on the way down, which I laughed at...probably not the best initial response. But she was alright for the most part so no biggy. It was kind of slippery in some spots because there was frost on the hillside but someone it had melted and it was actually pretty muddy.

On the bus home a grandpa-aged man sat near us and heard us talking and asked if I was from Canada. "You sound just like my granddaughter!" he said (she was from Vancouver). He was really nice though. I guess he heard us talking about movies and dvds or something so since he didn't have a dvd player he gave me the free movie that came with the paper that day....it was Conan the Destroyer with Arnold Schwarzennager....it's the thought that counts right?

On Sunday I went to the movies again with Sophie and we saw Just Like Heaven with Reese Witherspoon, which is definitely a chick flick (although Sophie's boyfriend doesn't agree with that term cuz guys can enjoy those movies too!...PS he loves 10 Things I Hate About You and can we imagine how excited I was to hear that?!) It was a really cute movie though; I liked it.

Monday was the day that I FINALLY got my courses straightened out for this semester. So, I'm taking Biochemistry: Macromolecular Structure and Function, Biology labs, Chemotherapy, Cancer Biology and Human Genome Project. Chemotherapy seems really interesting. I had a 9am lecture in it on Wed. and I didn't even feel like falling asleep! I have 3 9ams and one 10am though which sucks, although I have all of Thursday off. On Wednesday we had our first biochem lab, which wasn't a lab but consisted of watching a movie about Watson and Crick, the scientists who figured out the structure of DNA...kind of (by pretty much stealing ideas from everyone else). It starred Jeff Goldblum...so at first I thought, hey it can't be that bad, right? Wrong. I mean, for a science movie I guess it was alright but definitely not very gripping. Basically it was a lot of male scientists who just needed to get a girl, and kept gossipping about the only girl in their field...or tried to pick up french chicks from the girls' residence and then there was a lot of pipe smoking and beer drinking while chatting about DNA. That was the movie.

It snowed on Wednesday!...a couple of times! I even took video of it the first time but I'm not gonna bother showing you guys that cuz of course you've probably had your fill of snowfall. I even walked home in a bit of snow!...like, it wasn't on the ground but hitting me in the face...you know how when you're driving a car and the snow kind of streams over the windshield and it looks like it's being launched back up into the sky? It was like that, but less snow...and although I do walk fast, I was not travelling as fast as a car. MIND YOU due to traffic I actually was walking faster than traffic in this case! HAHA! My flatmate Rich is in my class and he took the bus home and I walked and beat him! SO THERE! Faster than a car I am!

Today/(yesterday I suppose now) was Thursday, so I had the day off. But it was so grey outside and I was just like...blah. So I seriously did nothing. Matt came home from class around lunchtime and I got him to start watching Grey's Anatomy last night so of course (since Grey's Anatomy is such an AMAZING show) he wanted to watch more today. I only have episodes 1-12 of season 2, which were the only ones available when I came home for Christmas. So, we watched 3 episodes this afternoon and then 3 more tonight. I wasn't going to stay in tonight BUT ok...I was supposed to be going out with the flat next door cuz they just signed a lease for their house and so were going out to celebrate. So I got ready in like, 20 min. including straightening the hair = speedy! But then they decided not to go out because not enough people wanted to go out. So ya...I stayed in and watched more Grey's Anatomy with Matt.

Oh and last night the people going with me to the Olympics came over so we could figure out where we were staying and stuff while we were there, so that's all worked out now. We're gonna make signs while we're spending the night in the airport (we fly out at 9:30am and I am NOT going to miss another flight!) so if anyone has any amazing things to put on signs let me know because we plan to get on TSN and CBC!! (Steph, I don't think "WE HAVE BOOBS NOW" will work this time!)

And, I've been really antsy (is that how you spell it?) lately and just want to go places and get frustrated when I don't go somewhere and end up doing nothing. So, since Ryanair has this flight sale on I've decided next weekend I'm gonna go somewhere...I'm thinking Oslo, Norway. Because, if I tour around Europe in April, Oslo most definitely will not be on the Europe circuit that I'm planning so I might as well go there before April. I'm just working on getting people to go with me...so hopefully it works out!