London: March 16th

London March 16th

As my previous post stated, I woke up at 4am...stupid time change. Needles to say Nathan and I have been exhausted all day. But it hasn't stopped us from having fun.

We started our day with Tower of London. With the Beef Eater tour, we saw the chapel, and learned about the prisoners and beheadings. There were some great stories. We saw some torture devices, including the rack (where they stretch a person). There was one story of a girl who was torture on the rack until almost dead and then burned at the stake for hearsay. lets just say England has had some issues with religion.

Some of the sadest deaths were the two boy princes who were taken to the tower for safety but killed by their Uncle.

In fact it seems that the royal family had a tendency of killing or imprisoning family members for the throne.

Following the tower of London, we walked across tower bridge and got a picture in front of the Globe Theater. There weren't any shows, but I didn't really want to stand and see a show anyway.

We made a surprise visit to Tate Modern. Nathan enjoyed it more than the national portrait gallery. It was interesting to say the least. One of the exhibitions had mirrored walls with color changing lights hanging from the celling. My crappy description doesn't do it justice…

From the Tate modern, we walked across the Millennium bridge. My amazing engineering husband was showing me the retrofits that were needed.

We got a quick glimpse of St Paul's before catching the tube to Buckingham palace. The palace was cool, but the queen should open it up for more than 2 months of the year. We then WALKED from the palace through Hyde park to Kensington gardens to the peter pan statue. Let's just say it was a long walk on top of all the other walking we did today.

It was back on the tube to Harrods which is basically a fancy Bloomingdales meets Nordstrom. Too fancy and expensive for my liking. Why would anyone pay full retail price for clothes. It was cool looking around the food court but I could have opted out.

British Museum was next on the list. However we only had 40 min before they closed. We saw the Viking exhibit, China, the Rosetta Stone and my favorite the Egyptian. It was sad that we couldn't spend more time there. I would have liked to have seen the ancient Greek exhibition, they had closed it early. That museum is Amazing! So much history, the wannabe Indiana Jones in me was super jealous of all the archeologist who discovered these wonders.

We then went to kings cross station so I can see platform 9 3/4 if only the Hogwarts Express was there to take me to Hogwarts. Then I could turn in my unfinished potions HW. Professor Snape probably hates me…

It was then back on the tube to Picadilly Circus, which is like a circus. There were so many people and street performers out and about. It was there that we finally had dinner at about 9. We were exhausted and starving.

Our first full day in London was long, fun, tiring, and filled with walking

Welcome to no sleep

It's 4 0'clock in the morning
Everybody is sleeping
Husband and I are wide awake
And my stomachs a growling...
Stupid jet lag
We are officially in London town!
So let's rewind a bit
On the 15th of March in the year of our lord 2012 Chelsea Catherine & Nathaniel Fields touched down at Heathrow airport at 3:30 in the afternoon, where they waited an hour in line to cross the border. We then rode the tube from Heathrow to Victoria.
A few lessons from my first tube experience: everyone is in a hurry. You need to watch where you are going or you might get sideswipe. There are so many different tubes/rail lines, it would be easy to get lost if you were not paying attention.

So we checked into our hotel at 6:30...yes that is 3 hrs from when we landed. After a much needed face wash and brushed teeth, we were out the door and back I the tube!

Nathan led us through the tube to the national gallery which is different from the national portrait gallery. In fact the national gallery had closed when we got there. After walking around the outside if the NG we decide we should eat it's about 7 by now. However when we turn the corner, I find the NPG. I don't think Nathan was excited to push off eating for art but we did. Thanks to working at OCMA, I got us free admission to the Lucian Freud exhibition, aka art of burned naked people as Nathan would put it. It was interesting to say the least. Anyways that place is deceivingly big and by the time we were done it was 9 and we still hadn't eaten.

For £17 we ate at the spaghetti house and split bruschetta, fried risotto ball, and chicken with interesting potatoes. We barely made it through dinner without falling asleep. It was delicious, but we were exhausted.

So a few observations from my first day:
1. Everyone speaks a different language. London us a multi-cultural melting pot. I heard German Italian some African language that I don't know and who knows what else.

2. People are always protesting something

3. Mind the gap gets old after the 100th time :)

Overall, I am excited and grateful to be here. Today we hit up the Tower of London and British Museum so stay tuned!

You stay classy San Diego...hello London Town

We leave tonight!!!
Ahhhhh I am so excited, nervous scared
Let's break down why I feel this way

Excited: I am going to England & Ireland! I have always wanted to go there since I was a little kid and heard they still had kings and queens

Nervous: I am going outside of the country for 2 weeks! My poor kitties. Will my house be ok? What if they loose my luggage? What if we get ripped off. WHAT IF.... I could go on forever

Scared: as I said before, I have dreamed about going to England since I was a wee las. It has seriously been on my top 5 places to see since I was a kid. I loved learning about the history reading/watching British period pieces aka pride and prejudice aka mr Darcy aka Colin firth. What if it doesn't live up to what I imagined it to be? What if I don't have a good time. What am I thinking? I am talking crazy talk...of corse I will have a good time.

Stay tune for pictures on fb instsgram and here (the blog) about our adventures

And if you would like some inspiration from our trip, I suggest listening to London Calling by The Clash or The Rocky Road To Dublin by the Dubliners

I would put it in this post but I don't know how to do that from my phone

New year resolutions

I have never been one for New Year Resolutions if I want something i work for it. But I figure these are things that I consistently lack at doing so here they are:
1. Exercise 3 times a week for 30 min
This seems so easy but it is so not
2. Journal more... This could also be blogging
3. Read 12 books this year...I know it doesn't seem like a lot but I have been reading the same book for the past 2 months
4. Complain less...I am a wha wha..seriously!
5. Read the Book of Mormon with Primary class... It's been way too long since I read it from start to finish. To keep me on track I am having our primary class read it too.

But first...new year, new tires
...yes I am writing this as I wait for my new tires.

Happy New Year..even if it's late...hey maybe I'm going for Chinese New Year

I have a blog?

I think I forgot that I had a blog 

Since August I have been non stop busy 

I was working at 

In-n-out

Interning at a resort company and the Orange County Museum of Art 

can you say exhausting 

so needless to say I neglected my little blog 

does anyone even read this? 

However I do like rambling into the deep void of the Internet 

So what have the Fields been up to you ask?

I have been planning our super exciting trip to England 

Here is our life based on my iphone (the only way I take pictures now) 

Giant Gingerbread mountain Dec2011

Our kitties love our sink 

How cute is this!

More Info on this to Come...

My Dad, Mom, and I went to the Ellen show for her 12 day's of Giveaways
It was AMAZING! 

Nathan and some Indian carvings 

I gave Husband a hair cut for the first time..he wasn't too happy 

We were extras in our friends movie 

I discovered Dance Centra and went out and bought Just Dance which is way Hard

Fun times at my best friends wedding last week!

Hopefully I will do better at keeping up to date with this blog 

London calling

We have started planing our trip to England and Ireland. I am super excited. It's going to be hard picking and choosing what to see. but I am excited to explore with Nathan. So far we have booked our hotel in Dublin which was free thanks to my internship.
We still have a lot to do...like renewing my passport in my married name. But I am excited!

A little surprised

Today Nathan and I asked our Sunday school class of seven year-olds what they wanted for Christmas, their reply:

iPod touch and iPhone

Really?

What happened to Barbies and race cars?