meeting idols

This is me VERY EXCITED to meet members of my favourite band, Breaking Benjamin! In Wichita, Kansas. I flew back to the US from London to see them. It meant 7 flights in 3 days and a lot of money but MY GOSH was it worth it. They were amazing live, but best of all I got to meet them after the show. We had a chat and I got my beloved photos.

The top one is of Ben, the lead singer and 'main man' of the band. I was sooo beside myself to meet him, as you can see by my embarrassingly large grin. I tried to keep it cool but you can tell how happy I was by my smile hehe. I look different in each photo though huh!

They were all SO very nice, especially Chad and Mark (the other 2)
They took the time to chat to me and were super impressed at my efforts to get there!

I didn't get to chat with Aaron or get a photo with him, but that's ok, the others more than made up for it!

SO HAPPY!

Ahhh BB I love you.

Europe

I am planning a holiday through Europe at the end of the year! Yes I just got back from 6 weeks away, now is the perfect time to plan another trip, right?

I just want to know if you have any must see places? Must do experiences? Tip?
What to do? What not to do?

Cotton Socks I'm looking at you! You seem to have done a lot of travel and I'm loving your latest posts on Paris etc.

HOLY CRAP

I leave in the morning!!!!!!
My flight is in 13 hours!!!!!
I am sooo excited, my stomach is in knots!

LA HERE I COME
can't wait!!

so possible six weeks of non-blogging or reading blogs. withdrawal symptoms much!!

i'll cope.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

OMG

one week to go until my holiday!!!!

ONE WEEK!!!

so much to get organised, it's going to be a hectic week!!!

SOOOOO EXCITED!! :D

What's on your bedside table?

My current reading material is the Lonely Planet New York Encounter Book.
A bite sized book packed FULL of information about a place that seems far too full to ever explore completely. I only started it today and I've been hi-lighting, circling and flagging all over the shop.

It has made me so extra excited about my holiday to be reading and researching! The books still waiting to be perused are the Lonely Planet Encounters... LA, San Fran, Chicago, London and Las Vegas.

The encounter books are good for me. The 'America' Lonely Planet book is far too huge for me to contemplate reading - or taking with me. So these pocket size ones are great.

And they are making me SO GIDDY WITH EXCITEMENT!

Ahem...

So if you have ever been to any of these places, I want travel tips!
What did you do? Where did you stay? Where should I NOT go in these cities?

LA
San Fransisco
New York
Denver
Las Vegas
Philadelphia
Toronto
Baltimore
Chicago

And any other travel tips would be cool. Big or small. I'm a total overseas holiday virgin. In other news, I'm possibly getting sick.

One Hundred

Just 100 days left on my countdown!

Tomorrow it hits double figures.. it feels like that is the true beginning of the countdown!

Today Pat sent me a first draft of our itinerary. We get to see lots of places and do so many cool things. LA, San Fran, NY, Vegas, Denver, San Diego... all so appealing!

I'm SO excited, I want these next 99 days to go quickly - I just can't wait to escape.

I really miss Pat, probably now more than ever and probably worse since I know seeing him is not too far away!

I am really looking forward to seeing my friend Liz too. It's going to be great to reconnect with her, I can't wait.

100 days!!!!

By the way

129 days until take off.

ooooohh yeaaaah.

USA

Amongst all the sadness of late, I have something awesome to look forward to.

AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOO.

6 weeks of super fun. Oh, and some time in the UK too.

But i'm just so excited about going to the US.

I've always wanted to go there. This will be my first overseas trip!

the countdown in on. unfortunately it's quite large... 169 days!

169 days until I get to plant my feet in a different country.
To start my first real holiday. .
And 169 days until I see my friend Pat who I miss heaps and heaps. SO EXCITED.

169 days!
can't wait pootruck!