Christmas trip 2009

While Jackson worried about his day in court (see previous post) and didn't sleep well, I kept myself up some being excited for our Christmas trip 2009! We're headed to... EUROPE!!!!!!! :)

If you know me (and most of you do) then you know that going to London and Paris have been long standing dreams of mine and this December that dream will be fulfilled! Woo hoo! We'll be leaving Denver in the afternoon on December 23rd to head to London where we'll spend Christmas Eve's afternoon, Christmas day and the day after Christmas. (HELLO after Christmas shopping in LONDON!) December 27th we'll take a train into Scotland to stay in Edinburgh. I'm going to have afternoon tea at a castle (I can hardly sit still thinking about it) while Jackson plays at St. Andrew's. St. Andrew's is known as the golf course God made and its Old Course is known as the oldest golf course on earth. (So basically it is every golfer's dream to play there and Jackson would be fulfilling one of his dreams! YAY!)

Edinburgh seems to have a lot of cool things to explore so we'll be there for 2 days- I think. Then we'll take a night train back to London and hop on the chunnel, a HIGH-speed train, that will take us under the ocean to Paris. We'll got the LOUVRE (again with the trouble sitting still thinking about it.) We'll see fireworks over the Eiffel Tower on New Year's Eve. New Year's day we'll explore the city. January 2nd we'll catch a flight back to the U.S. tired as all get out, I'm certain. :)

We have only a few hang ups:
1. It seems Europeans really have a thing for cinnamon. Nearly everything they eat seems to be tainted. Solution? I'll be packing granola bars. :)
2. French people are supposed to be really rude to Americans. Solutions? Do not speak, but pretend to be German as people always think I am anyway. :)
3. They are big on meat and I'm not. Solution: Don't eat and sight see as much as possible.
4. I once made a pact with God that I could die after seeing the Empire State Building (been there...TWICE) and the Eiffel Tower. Solution? Look down the entire time that I'm in Paris. HA! :) No, Jackson feels sure that if I just ask God to reconsider that I'll be ok. I kid you not that the idea of seeing the Eiffel Tower and then being struck by a random bolt of lightning would not surprise me.

Anyway, we're pretty darned excited for the trip. I'm certain that was not evident throughout this blog post. :)