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One month to England!!! Squee!!!!
Sep. 4th, 2006 05:52 pmIt's been hitting me a lot lately. We're going to England. I mean, REALLY ACTUALLY going to England. Not just talking about it, not just wistfully dreaming about all the stuff we could do there, we're doing it!
And today was the big one... It's September 4th, so exactly one month from this moment, we'll either be boarding or already on board our flight to London. Eeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
There have been a number of things lately that have really made it hit home, though...
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sueworld2003 has been trying to organize a group visit to Highgate Cemetery and proposed October 7th as one of the days to go... and after very nearly passing that entry by, it hit me that we're actually going to be there for that date!!! Squee!!!!
Pinhoe Egg, the latest book from Diana Wynne Jones, hit the shelves today in the UK and is set to release in Canada at the end of the month, while the US version is due out on October 1st. I'd much prefer the UK edition and normally I'd either order from Amazon UK or plan a shopping trip up to Vancouver, BC. But ordering it from the UK at this point would get it here anywhere from 1-4 weeks from now... odds being on the side of the four week end of the spectrum. And wait a minute! We're going to be in the UK then anyway!! Squee!!!!
Yeah, there's a whole lot of squeeing going on.
Today we picked up a few travel guides... one for London and one for England, as well as a very large roadmap (which also includes the Isle of Man, so bonus!). I've tossed Notes From a Small Island back on the Teetering Pile (which is no guarantee it'll get read before we leave, but it's worth a shot) and we're scrambling around to locate the copy of Where Was Wonderland?: A Traveler's Guide to the Settings of Classic Children's Books that we picked up several years ago onbabyotto's recommendation, for the "someday" when we'd eventually make the trip. Of course now "someday" has arrived, it's nowhere to be found.
So, to sum up: SQUEEEEEE!!!!
And today was the big one... It's September 4th, so exactly one month from this moment, we'll either be boarding or already on board our flight to London. Eeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
There have been a number of things lately that have really made it hit home, though...
sueworld2003 has been trying to organize a group visit to Highgate Cemetery and proposed October 7th as one of the days to go... and after very nearly passing that entry by, it hit me that we're actually going to be there for that date!!! Squee!!!!Pinhoe Egg, the latest book from Diana Wynne Jones, hit the shelves today in the UK and is set to release in Canada at the end of the month, while the US version is due out on October 1st. I'd much prefer the UK edition and normally I'd either order from Amazon UK or plan a shopping trip up to Vancouver, BC. But ordering it from the UK at this point would get it here anywhere from 1-4 weeks from now... odds being on the side of the four week end of the spectrum. And wait a minute! We're going to be in the UK then anyway!! Squee!!!!
Yeah, there's a whole lot of squeeing going on.
Today we picked up a few travel guides... one for London and one for England, as well as a very large roadmap (which also includes the Isle of Man, so bonus!). I've tossed Notes From a Small Island back on the Teetering Pile (which is no guarantee it'll get read before we leave, but it's worth a shot) and we're scrambling around to locate the copy of Where Was Wonderland?: A Traveler's Guide to the Settings of Classic Children's Books that we picked up several years ago on
babyotto's recommendation, for the "someday" when we'd eventually make the trip. Of course now "someday" has arrived, it's nowhere to be found.So, to sum up: SQUEEEEEE!!!!
