...and everything that you do.

so we’re all in the milford sound in new zealand. yes we took avory, he’s still carry on size yay.

alex is still kinda opposed to the idea of a dog but lindsey and i caught him cuddling with avory in bed last night - definitely looks like he’s in love too.

we’ve been hiking a lot here. it rains every day but not like when we were in london - this is a tropical rain, like a relief of the day’s built up energy. it almost makes you want to cry, like a cleanse. avory loves to hike which is good for when lindsey and i want to go alone, it’s like having another guy with us (we know alex secretly likes that too).

we have this tiny little hotel room and it’s just like home - one bed, one bathroom. we got one of the nicer hotels here because we knew we’d need a place to mellow out and rest after days of being outside.

so we’re all just laying here on the bed. there’s no tv in the room meaning we must entertain each other. they’re doing a great job, sleeping. alex snores which is shocking when you look at his pretty face. lindsey wakes up every 5 minutes to tell him to shut up. it’s just like every night. these two make anywhere feel like home.

goodnight!

so. we found this dog wandering around destin the other day. when i say dog i mean the cutest thing in the entire universe. but yeah. alex is insisting that we don’t keep him, “we don’t have time for a dog,” he says. um hello…yes we do.

lindsey and i already named him avory…like savory. but not. and we bought him a collar. and a dog tag. with our names and numbers on it. ha ha ha alex, we are keeping him.

guess what? IT RAINED. shocking. but we were prepared with our adorable umbrellas and all was good. no matter how many times lindsey and i begged to go on the “tuuuuuuuuube” this morning, alex swore that walking was better. walking in the rain is better, alex? really? he let us eventually because he loves us so much.

he took us to this record shop once we got off the tuuuuuuuuube and i found the beatles and lindsey found fleetwood mac and alex found some rolling stones lp that none of us had heard of. see america? vinyl is cool.

since apparently we all need more needles poked in us, we found the tattoo place alex goes to when he’s home. i got my first and lindsey got her 3rd…4th…5thish depending on how you count. BUT now we match with “XIX” on our rib cages. yay. alex got some tattoo he won’t show us. rude. he walks around in boxers all the time, not gonna be hard to find!

after, we went to dinner at a little cafe. some boy with a guitar was playing damien rice songs and there was space so alex thought it necessary we had a three person slow dance to “delicate” while he mouthed the words to us.

showering with 3 people and 1 shower is somewhat difficult considering we each have our own bathroom at home and alex lives alone here but we’re figuring it out. we’re all laying in bed with wet hair watching beauty and the beast (alex has all the disney vault movies on dvd…he wins). goodnight! :)

it rained today. BUT it has been raining every day so i suppose we weren’t that surprised. just unprepared. since alex is such a nice and experienced gentleman, he bought us umbrellas with big union jacks on them. YAY souvenir.

and then lindsey and i skipped around singing umbrella…ella…ella. for which we were yelled at. but he bought us hot chocolate anyway because he loves us and we were both frozen.

i’m sure we looked a bit ridiculous, two girls and a boy holding hands. but it’s the easiest thing in the world. having friends who love you enough to walk the streets of london hand in hand is so comforting.

we went to some old theatre alex used to go to and watched an old silent movie that we ended up throwing popcorn at each other through. children will be children. dinner was good, we went to the princess louise pub and had sweet potato fries and chicken strips. delish. after dinner alex thanked us for being such “lovely ladies” with a kiss on the head. being mutually adored is nice.

we just got back to alex’s, and are all snuggled in bed watching secret diary of a call girl. goodnight!!

lindsey and i made a friend!!!!

alex said we shouldn’t take a picture with him…something about it being “so american”. WELL. fine. we’ll take a picture OF him. boys are no fun ;)

two telephone peas in a pod!

we used the phones…it was like being in a movie. the red was red as can be but it felt so much deeper than when looking at this picture. like living inside of your favorite scene in a british film. i can’t believe we’re here. it’s like a dream.

i woke up today in london.

good morning! we all just got out of bed and decided we had to have tea. BECAUSE. WE. ARE. IN. LONDON. alex is from around here so he’s showing us around all the non tourist-y cool places.

the louvre is going to be amazing.

going to europe with lindsey and alex!