The London Chronicles: Part 1

Hello,
The following few posts are going to be made up of stories from my trip to London. They will be in no order and there may only be two or there may be twenty, I don't know.
Anywho where to start...how about Windsor, Oxford and Stonehenge which was a tour that took all day.

You may not know that Windsor is the weekend palace for the queen. It is a beautiful place and is almost a thousand years old...I think. The first thing I went to see was the Royal doll house and the Royal apartments I think they were called. The doll house was incredible. It is taller and wider than me with several floors. It is mainly a building with all the royal bedrooms and kitchens and gardens. The thing I found the most amazing was the fact that it has actual working electricity and plumbing. There is also a working vacuum and everything is to scale. CRAZY!!!

Oxford was a short part of the tour. We drove through the town and had tea in a shop which was crazy good. We then toured the town and found out where the Chronicles of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland were inspired. Alice in wonderland was just a story that was told on a picnic and boatride on a date. C.S. Lewis was inspired by a door that had a faun on it and a Lion on it. Not five feet from it was a lamp post in the middle of an alley way which is a completely random spot. Soooooooooooooo Cool.

Stonehenge was a place that was very vague. Most of the tour was made up of scientific guess rather than fact. It was still awesome to see the structure and wonder how people thousands of years ago were able to move stone that BIG so many miles. A hundred yards or so away there were mounds in the ground that apparently were mass graves of the pagans that lived there so many years ago. A bit gross but whatever. It was interesting.

As I said before these stories will go in no order and it might be over a few weeks that I write these.
That concludes Windsor, Stonehenge and Oxford.
-Scoots

Happy Birthday!!

Happy 16th Birthday Scooter!

I Must Say...

I must say, Scooter, I'm rather disappointed in you. There haven't been any new posts since the 2nd, and today is the 9th. That leaves the blog to lay idle for an entire week. It's truly a tragedy.

I'm kidding, of course. Anyway, since you won't post, I believe I shall. Coughing is at a minimum, but when I do cough, I must say it HURTS. Sore throat + hacking cough = unhappy Meg. *sniffle*

*Yawn* I'm getting kind of bored here. Not really much for me to update with. Except this: Race last Sunday - Maren got 1st place for the girl's division in Monterey! Woo! Everyone says the course was really easy and loads of fun. Wish I coulda been there. Don't you?

Nothing else to report. Over and out.

-M

The Reason...

The reason I was mean to you was fairly simple: I was in a really bad mood.

I understand you trying to be nice and, naturally, wanting to know what was wrong. And that didn't really bother me at first. But I didn't want to tell you what was bothering me because, frankly, it's my business and mine alone. I told you that.

However, you kept pressing me and pressing me to tell you what was wrong and it just got annoying. When I am in a bad mood, if talking to me doesn't work, it is best to leave me be and let me cool off. I saw no other way to get you to stop after telling you repeatedly, so I had to find a better way to get my message across to you.

When you kept trying to make me smile, it only made me get into a worse mood. Sometimes, when I'm grouchy, I don't want to smile all the time. I just want to be allowed to sit there and steam for a little bit. Eventually, I cool off and everything is back to normal.

Regardless of how many times I told you that I just wanted to be left alone for the time being, you kept trying. Like I said, I understand you wanting to know what was wrong and attempting to make me feel better. That's just because you're a nice person; it's what you do. But there is a point when it should become clear that I needed to be allowed to just sit there for a bit to fume and then I will be able to calm myself down.

For some reason, even after a pretty good day today, I still find myself rather irritable lately. I apologize for snapping at you for that reason; I'm usually not so cranky and even when I am, your efforts usually bring me into a better mood. Last time, though, it didn't work. When that is the case, leave me be for a little while. Chances are I will start feeling better relatively quickly (a short break from whatever is causing me stress will often allow me to either realize that it isn't that big of a deal or just let myself relax for a bit).

Okay, that's just a really long, drawn out, repetitive way of saying that I'm sorry I snapped at you and, in the future, if you can't bring me into a better mood or get me to tell you what's bugging me, it's best to let me alone and I will start feeling better soon enough.

Wow. That post was longer than I thought it would be.

-M

Co-winky-dink

So Megan like the meanie she is told me I have to blog. Blegh. So first off why were you so mean to me today. I was trying to be nice by making you laugh but noooo you just snap in my face. I was gonna cry...And the worst part was that she didn't tell me why.
Any who now I'm watching Julie and Julia and she writes a blog in it, Coincidence I think NOT. Its O.K. so far but now I'm gonna watch it.
Bye-Bye
-Scoots

I'm So Sorry

Scooter,

I'm so sorry to hear that the Japan trip didn't end up working out for you. I wish I could say "I know how you feel," but in truth, I don't. But, hey, it's not the end of the world, right? I'm sure you'll come across another excellent opportunity sometime in the future. Like they say: every cloud has a silver lining.

-M

Dream Denied

Before I Forget

Hey Scooter,

I talked to Juliana and she said she'd like to be able to post on the blog. Can you send her an invite to be an author when you get the chance? Thanks.

-M

Working

'Lo,
So my parents are on board with the Japan idea...kinda...but they want me to make it so that instead of five weeks its three weeks. I've actually looked but the only three week ones have either language requirements or are cutting into the next school year. I am O.K. with this because I want to do the five week one.
Awww....Five whole weeks in Japan...Its like a dream. All I've been able to think of in the last few days is, "What is the family going to be like?" "What city will I stay in?" and "What are we going to do there?" Now all I have to do is get my parents fully committed and fill in the rest of the forms.
I can't wait
-Scoots

Hey Scoots

Okay, I did a little "geeking" (as my father calls it) and apparently, since I'm not the creator of the blog, I can't invite anyone to be authors. I can, however, invite people to follow. So I'll be sure to do that ASAP. But if you want people to be authors, you're going to have to e-mail them the request on your own. If you need e-mails of people, I can help you out with that.

That's all for now.

-Megs