florence

i am in florence, and alive...

dont have time to write or i would...

hope everyone is doing well. when i am in the airport tuesday night i will write...
maybe you guys will be on for me to talk to..?

love always.

anddd picturesss.

another quick oneee.

ok, so in short, i have had the most amazing 10 days of my life. it is 6.15 am and i am still a little drunk from last night. ryan is leaving this morning at like, 11 i think his flight is. and i am beyond upset about it..
so super fast this has been our 10 days..
saturday-picked him up from the airport. and was legit a little girl on christmas morning happy. i couldnt stop smiling. and barely got ANY sleep the night before..go to the airport at 630 to pick him up. and finally got him around like 8, his flight was delayed, but i had no internet..so then we went to his nana's. i absolutely love this lady. she completes my life. haha. we hung out with her, napped, and went to dinner.
sunday- we woke up at like 530, and were off to PARIS for the night. was amazing. we got there around 12 after taking the train from London, and got lost, went to the hotel, napped, eiffle tower, dinner, passed out. haha.
monday-we slept in, and had breakfast and went to the lourve. saw some amazing pictures. the mona lisa.! made up stories about some statues, cause a lot of stuff was in french. haha and then just walked around until our train at like 6. and then we were in this shit hotel for the night, which we needed to be super drunk in for it to be ok. haha.
tuesday- we got a train to crewe and got to kat's around like...3.3o. got some nice wine, and started drinking. haaa. and then we eventually went out and basically it was a nice pub crawl. i've never been so drunk in my life. it was an amazingg night to say the least...a very drunk one too.
wednesday-we eventually got up...and left for london again...where we went to dinner with yorkie and sunny. and got a few beers...
thursday we were off to bumble's. we had a super relaxing night here, we watched some movies. and ate a ridiculous amount of food. hahaha but it was so much fun.
friday-we went to a zoo! and saw LIONS MONKEYS and TIGERS..having sex, and we got to feed reindeers and saw baby lambs. hahaha. and it was fun. then we went to a "super posh" dinner party at her house haha and then we went out with her friends. was a good night.
saturday-we went back to nana's :] and just hung out with her..
sunday-we were at nana's and we cooked her dinner for easter. chicken with alfredo sauce and noooodles. was very nice. and some triffles :] yummm.
and monday-we stayed at nana's until dinner time, and we just hung out. was a nice relaxing few days. and then we got pretty wastey face last night. and we finally have the internet, which is nice, but we had to pay for it. STUPID. but we needed to check flight times, and check in and everything.
and today is a sad day in my life....ryan is going back to stupid america without me. and i have to hang around london alone until melaney gets back from paris, where we will proceed to the airport for the night..

sorry there are no pictures, will hopefully have internet at the airport, or at a coffee shop during the day where i will be able to post some..
hope everyone is doing well. love you all and miss you tons.!
x kellycrumbs.

quick note..

i am having the time of my life. have been travelling around england the last week. and just have had a blast. went to paris, and am more in love than i thought i could be. got piss drunk with my two favorites and am just having the best time ever. i dont ever want tuesday to come...

but then off to italy and greece, which will be absolutely fun..but i will be sad..

oh well.

loveee everyone.
x kelly

paris me.

i am in paris right nowww. and it is amazinggg.

i loved being at ryan's grandma's and then we came to paris this morning :] anddd now we are in paris. and it is amazing. and tuesday we see kat. and wednesday we see yorkie and sunny. and thursday we see bumble =] yayyy!

am having the best time everr!

peace out.

im leaving for London. and picking up ryan tomorrow =] and then going to his grandma's.
will write soon.
be safe.
love--kellycrumbs

i'm movin outtt.

i have to move out. like pictures down, stuff out. STUPID. they are having a conference here over break and we neeed to move out. ugh. just one more thing to add to the list of ridiculousness. but i just have to make it through thursday at 12. and then i am dunzo!

i finished my civil war paper. handed it in. yay! this last paper is killer though..
How, and why, was the European development and use of gunpowder weapons different from the experience of the Ottoman and Chinese empires?
so stupid. it is legit killing me. like i know the answers, but i dont have a lot to back it up. LAME! and then i have a seminar on thursday...yuckkk. but i am happy to be so close to being done and seeing ryan and paris! yayy!

in other news, i have a scholarship interview tomorrow at 3 for randolph macon over the phone. i had to write an essay in 40 minutes. and there were three choices.
1.) It is January 2009, and you are a speechwriter for the newly elected President of the United States. You have been asked to write the inaugural address to present a vision for the nation, and you know the President shares your views and concerns. What will be the most important highlights of your speech?
2.) What motivates you?
3.) Bill Gates has asked you to take charge of his $1 billion charitable fund. You have complete control over how to spend his money to improve society and the world. Explain how you will choose to use the money and why.
i did the last one. i hate writing essays for these things, but at the same time there is really no right or wrong answer. i started off doing the second, but it just seemed harder to write than i thought it would be. which i feel always happens. hopefully everything goes well, and i get the scholarship. and everything is good.

hmm, other news--it is SO WINDY here it is ridiculous. i am surprised no trees have fallen down! it like moves you when you are walking. so silly. and it has been super rainy. but the wind is making my room VERY cold. i am not a happy camper. haha.

i am so excited ryan is comin to visit saturday!! seriously, can not waittt! =)
ok, must be doing my paper now. gaggg.
love from wales, x
kellycrumbs

oh!! exciting news! am going up to loughbourough [where bumble & bex goes to school] for bumble's birthday weekend [april 19-21] and so are fidgel and starry and possibly tickle and taelo..but i am SOO excited cause i know it will be ridiculous fun! hehe. x

tired.

i am very tired today. and i slept last night for 11 hours =/ well apparently only america changes time last night, we don't change until the end of march, so as of now there is only a 4 hour time difference from the fam and 5 for ryan. which is coool...

so i was looking up lyrics to a camp song cause i wanted to make sure that i got that right ones for something, and i came across these lyrics for once of my favorites.. On The Loose:
On the loose to climb a mountain, on the loose where I am free
On the loose to live my life the way I think my life should be
For I've only got a moment and this whole world yet to see
I'll be looking for tomorrow on the loose
Have you ever watched the sunrise turn the sky completely red?
Have you slept beneath the moon and stars, a pine bough for your bed?
Do you sit and talk with friends though not a word is ever said?
Then you're just like me and you've been on the loose
There's a trail that I'll be hiking just to see where it might go
Many places yet to visit, many people yet to know
And in following my dreams, I will live and I will grow
On a trail that's waiting out there on the loose
Have you ever heard a whippoorwill singing to the morning dew?
When you hear the bells ringing, do you know they ring for you?
And when you look back on the past, all I really ask
Is to remember me when you're out on the loose
So in search of love and laughter I'll be traveling 'cross this land
Never sure of where I'm going for I haven't any plans
And in time when you are ready, come and join me, take my hand
And together we'll share life out on the loose now
As I sit and watch the sunset and the daylight slowly fades
I am thinking of tomorrow and the friendships we have made
I will value them for always and I hope you'll do the same
And forever we'll explore life on the loose

So, i really like the last verse..i think it is pretty awesome..

anways, so i have like 5 and a hlaf days until Ryan comes, and I am sooo excited. but i have SOO much to do before my MONTH of traveling! i am super excited just to see a friend, never mind the fact that i get to see my boyfriend too! yayy! and i get to go all over England with him, and Paris! we are staying with his grandma for a night too! hehe. i am so excited! so, he comes on saturday morning at 6am. and then i will meet him at the airport, and then we are going to his grandma's for the night, then to paris sunday morning to monday night, then monday night we are in London. then tuesday to wednesday is Kat's!!! and then wednesday night we are going to hang out with Yorkie and Sunny! and then thursday to friday we are at Bumble's!!!! and then we are coming down to Swansea for a night! and then back to London for Easter and hanging out til he leave on Tuesday :( but then Tuesday i am meeting up with Melaney, her mom, Regan, and Janie and we are going to the airport for the night cause the next morning we fly to ROMEEEE! and then from there i don't really know what the plans are. except we are going to Rome and Venice and Florence, and then i fly out of Rome on Tuesday night and head to London and stay in the airport for the night, and fly to Dublin in the morning, where i meet erin for GREECE!!! and then we are in Athens and Santorini until Wednesday night we fly back to Dublin. and then from there we are staying in the airport for the night, and then i fly to London, where i am going to meet up with Bumble and Fidgel, and thennnn i come back to school on saturday i believe. and then the weekend of the 20th i am going up to Bumble's school with fidgel and hopefully starry!! for Bumble's birthdayy :)

so yeah that is my next month..crazyyyyy. I called my momma the other day and i miss her a lot. i used to talk to her about every other day at NAU and now i barely ever talk to her =[ we were talking about like everything...the twins, everyone in the fam [john and jen are building a half million dollar house. wtfff?! which i just found out about because him and jen don't respond to my e-mails, and i miss hearing about the kiddiess. oh, and i talked to aiden the other day and he was like, kel i miss you come home. i cried.] and we were talking about the summer. and when i go to new orleans. and she is worried about when ryan comes out here..she knows about everything that happened with us, and is very supportive of whatever decisions i makes, but i know she doesn't want me to get hurt. but she told me she's never seen me as happy as i am when i am with him..even when i talk about him, and for her to say that is a lot. but i was talking to her about how when i go to nola we might roadtrip home and he might come work & visit camp for 2 weeks. and we would stop at Randolph-Macon on the way home, which i think would be good for me to see it again..ya know? and she thinks that would be a good idea. and our other idea was i go fly there and fly home, and work at camp, and then he comes like 5/6 and hangs out and he helps me move into college and then flys out of richmond. and she got all sad and waas like well, i really wanted to go down there to drop you off in the fall. and i was like, well duh you would come. hahaha. i love my mommyyy. and it is kinda sad cause everyone's parents are coming to visit over break but mine aren't :( i miss them. and cant wait to see them in the airport in june. i really wanna go home so i can see the baby twinssss :( but i can't and that is lame.

anways, i have to get to my paper...i finshed my civil war one, and i do believe it is pretty superb. and now i have to write one on the ottoman empire. STUPIDDDD. i hat hate hate world history. gag me.
love from wales,
kellycrumbs

ps, you should listen to-- sum 41-with me, kate voegele-wish you were here, lifehouse-broken andddd the honorary title-far more.
they are all super good. actually kate voegele's whole cd is fantasticccc =]

twins!!!

yay! the babies finally came! i am so excited to say that i now have a new baby girl cousin and a new baby boy cousin! scottie and barbara had their babies around 3:30pm east coast american time =) and i am SO EXCITED!! the little girl's name is erica/erika [am not sure on spelling yet] grace koster and the little boys name is undecided as of right now, however i heard it might be daniel scott koster. yay! the little girl came first at 5 ilbs 8 oz and 18 inches. and the little boy was 6ilbs 9 oz and 19.5 inches. eekkk so healthy for baby twinniesss!

i am so excited! but kinda sad i have to wait until june to meet them!

i talked to my momma for like 40 minutes today and they got the call when we were on the phone, hehe. i am super excited for my babies!

a picture...

so, because myspace and facebook are all creepy and let you know when people put up new pictures, well--someone put this picture up and i was looking at it, and i had to smile...
this is LNC--precamp summer 2006. i vividly remember this night..for many reasons. it was a good night i laughed so hard this night. i smiled like a little kid on christmas morning this night. i laid with my friends holding their hands this night. i had tears in my eyes this night...it was a super amazing night.

now, i am sure if you didn't know what was going on in this picture you would be confused and wonder why a bunch of girls would be standing like this in a circle, but if you know what it is, well at least for me...it gives me a sense of peace and calm..if that makes sense.. every single time we do this at camp, every time, it makes me smile this type of smile that is genuine. i can't help but smile really. i don't know why either..it makes me happy that in a way we all come together, even though we don't all get along. and it makes me happy...and i always look for my 3 at a certain point in the song, because i know that for a second we all go back to the summer we were 16, where everything was perfect...and usually i catch one of their eyes and we send each other a smile, because we know. we just know...

being here has really given me time to think, about what i want out of life. i have been listening to music a lot lately, especially country, and some of the lyrics in the songs, are just amazing..and they can change the way you are feeling, the way you are thinking..it is almost like for a second the lyrics in the songs can change the world.... i want to change the world. not in a big way, cause i am sure i don't have the ability to do that..but i want to one day...

me and my friend erin [falan] have known each other since we were 16 i do believe...we worked at the black forest together, that girl got me through the long nights there, we had stupid jokes at the resturant, kept clear of the mean waitresses and made fun of them...and got such special treatment cause barbara owns the resturant...well, every night there would be that ONE table that wouldn't leave, so we would get food, drinks, hang out and set up for the next day..and we ended up getting really close. anyways, she goes to school at Virginia Tech, and went to Lenape so we live fairly close to each other, and we talk all the time on the computer, well as much as we can...but we both decided we are going to change the world together...and that makes me happy. sometimes it doesnt make sense how good of friends we are, considering we barely see each other anymore, and we dont really know all that much about each other, i still feel like she is such a good friend. and it makes me happy to have her. and that she wants to change the world with me =)

anyways, just looking at that picture makes a smile come to my face--and i wanted to share that with everyone, cause maybe it will do the same for you...even if you don't understand it..
now its time to go write a paper on the Civil War..woohooo.
love from wales,
kelly.crumbs.