Been a long time...

Sorry I haven't written a blog entry in soooooo long!! I still don't have a computer so it makes doing computer things a bit difficult! However, I am currently using Debbie's computer at her house in London while Deanna rests after our Spring Break excursions!
I just got back from Italy yesterday! What an amazing trip that was!!
First, Deanna and I flew from Manchester to Frankfurt. Then we had to wait in Frankfurt inside the freezing train station at like 4 am untill our train left for munich at... almost 6. That was interesting. We did get some fresh croissants though and played abit of rummy. We play rummy a lot, we have a running tally and I think she might be slightly ahead right now... our scores are up in the thousands though!
Anway- we finally made it to Munich and what a relief that was! We got off the train and there was Felecia!! She is a friend of mine from high school and she lives in Munich. So we met her there and she took us back to her place (after some excited, yet exhausted hellos) and we took a nap in her sweet flat that she shares with her mom. It was still very early in the day when we awoke and so Fea showed us all around Munich! What a lovely city!!! I loved it so much! We ate at a HUGE beer garden (she said it wasn't even that big!) and wandered around the city. I couldn't help but begin to sing tunes from The Sound of Music and Fea said she had never seen it so we watched it that night.
The next day we woke up and went to this reallly cool palace south of Munich. It was modeled after Versailles and it was so lovely! Deanna and I got to tour it and wow! It was so over the top! Very cool. ( http://www.herren-chiemsee.de/englisch/n_palace/index.htm <--- link to it's website!!) It was situated out on an island we had to take a ferry too. There were a few other islands as well and we visited another after we were done at the palace. Bavaria as a whole was sooo georgous! We at lunch at a small restaurant and I had schnitzel (but not with noodles ;) ) and it was very good. Where we sat we could see the lake and the alps in the background. I was still very much in Sound of Music mode and was going off about Edelweiss and how much I loved it. It is suuuppeer rare though and fea said she saw one once. We almost went to Salzburg (where the movie is set) but we decided to go back to Fea's and watch the office and visit :) Her mom made us the most amazing cake and we had a very peaceful relaxing evening.
THEN off to Italy!! Deanna and I trained there and we actually went to the wrong cabin at first! we though we were gonna get to ride in the bed chambers on the trains but we were wrong :( lol no big deal though. We ended up sitting with a very... interesting man. He was also going to Milan. We had a few hour layoverin the middle of the night in Verona- had it been during the day I would have drug Dee to the Juliet's window site but it was around 4-5 am so that wasn't going to happen :)
We finally made it to Milan and took a bus to the airport where we met up with Jenna, Deanna's sister. We picked up our rental car and were off into the craziest traffic I have ever experienced. I will write more later- this is quite a bit for now. Germany was beautiful and I'm so glad I got to go! Italy was an adventure as well and I will have to make some entries describing that trip!