Update

Already finished with New Moon and half way through Eclipse....did I mention these are 500+ page books, I had this horrible realization last night that I will be done with the 4th and final book soon, what will I do with myself!!??

I finally did it

After what seems like months of waiting, I finally moved into my new flat this weekend! I would like to say that I am fully unpacked, but that is hardly the case! There are still unopened boxes everywhere! I only opened the necessities...toiletries, bedding, a few clothes, etc. This is mostly due to the fact that before Kelly and Simon left for Dubai last week she gave me Twilight and told me that I HAD to read it. I have been avoiding this book for a while, for several reasons. First and foremost, I have had an irrational fear of vampires since I was little. I'm not sure if I saw Buffy (the movie, not the TV series) at too young an age or what, but I have always been afraid of them, still to this day. So as a general rule, I try to avoid all things vampire...TV shows, movies, books, caves, you get the drift. Secondly, I also try to avoid cult-ish behaviour, maybe David Koresh scarred me as a child. Thirdly, I have never been into "fantasy" movies or books, I have never seen or read Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, etc. So for all of these reasons, Twilight fell into the "avoid at all costs" category. Well, Kelly assured me that Twilight was not scary, that these were good vampires that didn't hunt humans, only animals, and that I would love it. So after much coaxing I admitted defeat and started reading Twilight on the tube on my way to work last Thursday morning. BAD IDEA. Why you ask, b/c after only 20 minutes of reading this book on the tube, I almost didn't want to get out at my tube stop. I considered taking a "long lunch" and sneaking away to some corner and reading for a hour, but most importantly I only had one more day left to pack before the movers came. Luckily I got the packing all done, but with only 3 hours left for sleep Friday night. Kelly was wrong, the book did scare me a little and of course the scary part came right when I was about to put the book down and go to bed Friday night, but I couldn't put it down at a scary part for obvious reasons, so I had to push on for a bit longer until it got to a happier time! I got all moved Saturday morning and went out to buy a few groceries, and low and behold I passed a bookstore. I realized that I was already dangerously close to finishing Twilight and I couldn't possibly run the chance of finishing the book that night after the bookstores closed without having the next book in the series, New Moon, in hand. So I entered the bookstore, and exited only a few minutes later with all three books from the rest of the series and I ginormous Toblerone in hand (hey, it was 50% off!) I am already half way through New Moon, oh the shame.

Duplicity....

Don't judge us, but Lindsey and I realized we had taken quite a few of the same photo's while she was here, so we decided to just go with it and continue on the path!

Lindsey & Lauren's European Reunion!!!

One of my very best friends from Dallas came to visit me last week!! We had such a blast and way too many stories to try and blog about so I thought I would just post some of my favorite pics from the trip, in reverse order b/c I don't want to end on a sad note (ok, really b/c that is how the pics downloaded and I am too lazy to rearrange them!) We had been waiting for this trip for so long, I can't believe it is over already!! The rest of the 300 pics are on my shutterfly site in all their glory! lwaterfield.shutterfly.com

Sad...we're leaving Paris

Self portrait at the Lourve
My best Quasimoto impression at Notre Dame

Le Moulin Rouge

My favorite street food...the crepe!

Atop the Effiel Tower!

Self Portrait at Sacre Coeur

Self Portrait in front of Buckingham Palace

Trafalgar Square

Lobby of The Berkeley for Afternoon Tea

Afternoon Tea @ The Berkeley

YUMMY

Night out with Annie at Studio Valbonne

We saw the Queen and her son

A little fun at Portobello Market

National Pancake Day

That's right people, here in the UK they don't celebrate Fat Tuesday but they do have National Pancake Day in it's place! I know this post is a bit out dated, but I have gotten pretty far behind my posting with getting ready to move and my visitor from the states last week! More to come on that later!! Back to pancakes, which are actually crepes here, I figured if there was a whole day devoted to it then I was obliged to participate. On NPD Kelly and I had decided to be "good" and walk home from my office together, it is a nice 5 mile walk, but goes fast as we talk faster than we walk the whole way! Well, as we were nearing our flats I let her in on the fact that it was NPD and she was being forced against her will to participate with me. So I think I have a little work to do before my pancakes will be world renowned, but a pretty good effort, after we opened the windows and cleared out the smoke from the first batch i burned. I learned the griddle can't be too hot...there's a good pancake tip for you.

The First Batch

Kelly's flat after the first batch...tad smokey

I was quite defeated

i finally got the hang of it!

The traditional topping for crepes in the UK is lemon juice and sugar, however, we decided we had much better options to choose from!

Ridin' Dirty

No I'm not driving with drugs, a handgun or without insurance* (although I may have been lacking insurance over Christmas), anyways back to the point, although I don't have a car here in London I love my new driving gloves! Don't judge the knuckle holes, they are awesome, plus I can wear my brass knuckles on chilly days now!





* a friend Alyssa once thought that the rap song Ridin' Dirty meant driving without car insurance :)

I've created a monster

I can't be stopped!! I've just added Seville in June to my below itinerary!! The whole Hernandez family, minus Geri, is doing a Tour de Espana in June so I just booked my ticket to go meet up with them in Seville!  Geri...you should come too! 

Seville here I come!