This is a view of Cardiff from the top of a tower in Cardiff Castle, absolutely amazing!
Well today was BEAUTIFUL! It was sunny all day and "quite warm," and by that I mean that I was comfortable in long sleeves, a scarf and flip flops. We spent the morning shopping and fortunately for my bank account I didn't find anything that fit. The sizes here are very different, a 0 in the states is a 4 here! I did find this really cute dress in a store called Next, but they only had it in sizes that were way too large or way too short. We then had a taste of home by going to Subway...mmmm, it has never tasted so good. The look on the man's face when we asked for "chips" was priceless though because here chips=french fries and crisps=chips.
I forgot to tell you of my experience of getting my bus pass. I have a monthly pass and here those passes contain your picture. We went to ASDA (Wal-Mart in the UK) and sat in a photo booth thing and followed the instructions, 1. Sit still. 2. Keep all hair in the frame. 3.Don't smile. This last one made me laugh, naturally, therefore I tried not to smile, while laughing and it took my picture. Needless to say I look dumb in my photo, but I show it to the bus drivers many times a day. Hopefully they at least get a little laugh out of how dumb I look in it.
Pam moved into her host home today and Ellie is out of town, so it's been somewhat quiet around here this evening. Luckily another friend is staying the night with me. In my spare time today I did my first load of laundry, Mom you would be proud because I still have clean clothes and I have already washed some of my dirty ones. The washer took some time, and didn't allow me to wash very many clothes at once. When they were finally done I took them out and went to hang them on the line. This was NOT a success because there was a spider web (with a spider on it) in the path I needed to take. Let's just say my clothes are in the dinning room on a clothes rack and my "pants" are all over the bathroom....probably more information than you need to know but in the UK pants=underwear, this can be quite confusing if you are talking about jeans and you call them pants. As I was putting my clothes all over the house I could only think how grateful I would be for a dryer and how everyone at home should be thankful for the dryer I know they have. Word on the street is that these clothes will take 2-3 days to dry, I wish it was 45 min to an hour!
Oh I have also found that my name is a Welsh name and that the original spelling for "Jennifer" is actually "Jenifer," so thanks Mom and Dad for looking deep into the spelling of my name and taking my name back to the roots of where it came from! :)
I just firgured out how to add pictures to this, so this is a picture of Pam and I when we got lost the first time.
This was a warning sign at the hospital that I thought was funny. No worries I wasn't at the hospital as a patient, I was only passing through the parking lot to find a bus stop.
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