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Name: Andrea
Birthday: 1/12/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: worshipping my Savior, reading, watching movies, listening to music, talking, making cards, baking/cooking, anything with my church, going to SovGraceMin conferences, emailing, swing dancing, bbsitting, organizing, typing...
Expertise: i think i've completely mastered the art of ironing wrinkles INTO my clothes. yup, i'm pretty good at that...
Occupation: Administrative
Industry: Nonprofit
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7/31/2003
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| can't wait!i'm leaving tomorrow to spend the weekend in pasadena, california with zach and his family! :)
i'm not sure of all the plans for the weekend (and i rather like it that way!), but there is talk of hanging out with the family (minus ron who is in michigan with his mother), coffee with tami (zach's mom), a beach bonfire, church and lots of talking and time together.
i'm a little bit excited. 
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Take the Quiz here!
You are Elizabeth Bennet of Pride & Prejudice!
You are intelligent, witty, and tremendously attractive. You have a
good head on your shoulders, and oftentimes find yourself the lone
beacon of reason in a sea of ridiculousness. You take great pleasure in
many things. You are proficient in nearly all of them, though you will
never own it. Lest you seem too perfect, you have a tendency toward
prejudgement that serves you very ill indeed.
i didn't really think i'd come up as Lizzy... hmmm... not sure how accurate it is but it was fun!
(i like this quiz because at the end it lets you see all the possible results)
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| amazingsome random things i've recently been amazed by...
_ how much someone's Godly example can provoke me toward greater Godliness
_ how many places are seriously so old. buildings and sites and monuments... places where real people walked out their lives, some in complete anonymity, some in utter infamy, and others we will never forget.
_ how great it is to be in a courtship with someone who is already one of my best friends
_ how blessed i am to share life with the girls in my caregroup and the work that God is doing in their lives
_ how feeding on God's word both continues to satisfy my soul and at the same time make me hunger for more
_ how beautiful the rain is
_ how comforting God's unchanging and ever faithful character is | | |
| it's really REALLY good to be home. | | |
| the rest of Londonsorry for not posting! we got back to our hotel somewhat late each night and then i pretty much spent the rest of our evenings video-chatting with zach. so posting took something of a back seat. 
but here's what the last couple days have held --
Thursday
mom and i toured the Tower of London! wow. what an amazing place! so much history!
the famous Traitor's Gate:
near some tudor style housing within the walls (not used for housing anymore...):
(quick side note: you may notice the headset around my neck. we paid $5 to get the audio tour for the Tower and it was the best $5 we spent! we actually did audio tours at Kensington Palace and Hampton Court Palace as well and i would highly recommend them! they are very informative and very easy!)
the white tower:
a yeoman guard (and no, i didn't attempt to try and make him "crack."  )
mom and i in a cool archway along the tower wall:
mom took this kinda cool picture of me at dinner:
thursday night we went and saw The Lion King! it was absolutely fantastic! amazing costume and set designs! they were breathtaking at times. and all the music was live (obviously), but they also had 2 sets of congas, djembes and full drums set up in each of the box seats on either side of the stage so you could watch those instruments being played whenever they contributed to the african feel of play. i truly can't describe it here - ask me if you want to hear more!
Friday
friday morning we took a tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - or rather, the reconstructed version of it. the original theatre burned down the year shakespeare retired and they have rebuilt it in a slightly different location, but very accurate to the original. we toured around the theatre and got to sit and watch part of a rehearsal for the show opening this weekend (not a shakespeare). we couldn't take any pictures inside the theatre so i ended up not taking any at all... sorry!
we spent the afternoon at Hampton Court Palace - the favorite residence of Henry VIII. talk about a beautiful castle!
from far away:
inside one of the courtyards:
a ceiling in one of the rooms (the round red things are the Tudor Rose (crest of the Tudor family)):
outside the palace there was a beautiful flower garden with brightly colored flowers lining the wall with benches:
mom and i sitting on one of the benches :)
after Hampton Court Palace we stopped in at Harrod's, which is a very high end and HUGE store that sells everything from perfume to clothes to fine chocolate to furniture.
Saturday (today)
this morning we went to Kensington Palace - where Princess Diana lived - and did a lovely tour of that. then we had lunch at The Orangery, which is a fancy restaurant next to (kinda part of) Kensington.
the Orangery:
mom and i at lunch:
our table with our food (it was so pretty!):
after lunch we ran a few "errands" (exchanged our money back to US$, etc) and then headed over to St Paul's Cathedral. i completely didn't pay attention to the time and we arrived about 5 minutes after the last admittance for tours. bummer.  but we took a few pictures anyway!
the front:
still having time left in our day, we decided to go take the Tower Bridge tour. This is London Tower Bridge:
this is a side view (you can see the wall of the Tower of London running along the right hand side of the picture):
the view from the walkway between the two tours was lovely!
after the Tower Bridge we had dinner and headed back to the hotel. i'm all packed and VERY ready to go home tomorrow. we both are. it's been a fun trip, and we really packed it in, but now we are very relieved and excited to be going home.
i'm a little nervous about turning my cell phone on when we land in new york. i have no idea what my inbox and voicemail will look like after 10 days of complete non-use! a slightly scary thought for someone who practically lives on her cell phone (as my friends all know)! haha! but i am completely willing to brave all and take the risk of turning my precious little phone on as soon as we land - because it means being back in communication with my man! yay!
thanks for all your prayers and comments, friends! hope to see you all very soon!
signing off from wembley, london, UK...
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