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This really deserves a post of its own:
"We got the heater working!!!!!" Whooptidoo! Go team haha!
Friday, November 16, 2007
Roadtripping!
Sooo, we actually managed to jump on the right bus back to Dundee (thanx to Jess' previous experience) and arrived safe and sound back home, very tired though. Two suddenly became three. Hmm...
Thursday and Friday were brainless days, did exactely what we wanted, when we wanted, didn't worry about anything except getting out of bed (haha) in time to pick up our precious...
...on Saturday we hired a car (Vauxhall Astra, "blue", yeah right. In their eyes at least, seems Scots aren't that bright regarding colours either... ), seated Jess in front of the wheel and started what would turn out to be the best road trip ever! The first leg of the race wasn't that challenging - we made it all the way to the Tesco, about 500m from Arnold Clark's :) Bought something salty and sweet for our exciting adventure - and then we were off. "Up-up-and-awaaaay!" (naaah, back to earth people, we went by car, du-uh.)
First real pit-stop was at Dunnottar Castle in Stonehaven. Gorgeous settings, very picturesque, and supeeeerb weathaaaa (yupp, we've become Sco'ish - or at least Jess seems to think so...) - simply breath-taking!
Continued through Stonehaven, had a cup o' coffee in a cute little place, and headed North. Driving through Aberdeen was pretty interesting, but we found our way out of there and continued up through Peterhead (worth mentioning due to its funny name haha.). Jaakko dozed off for a moment, and suddenly we were off the map! ...but still on the road. That little "back road" was really worth seeing and was probably a short cut...hmm...aaaanyway, arrived in Fraserburgh. Heaaa we had a gourmet dinner at Wimpy's - an experience in itself, Ronan Keating will never be the same again!
Drove through some very creepy sceneries, thank God it was dark...and thank God Jaakko was driving by now, as Jess' imagination got carried away..."what's down there..?" Would be fun to drive that road again in broad daylight though, we were going up-up-up and down-down-down on serpentine roads, and it felt as if we were surrounded by nothing. At this time we started to think about where to stay that night - which turned out to be quite an adventure.
We found our next dare during the darkness. You don't wanna know... completely and utterly creepy.
Aberlour was our host for the night. A small B&B in a even smaller town (haha - doesn't make much sense does it, but hey, you know us). Got cozy in a local pub, tried out some whiskeys (believe it or not, good whiskeys) and really enjoyed a relaxed, well-deserved evening.
Scottish breakfast is by the way Jess' new favourite! not. Bacon (ish) and sausages (ish) together with runny eggs actually drove Jess to sacrifice herself and try cereals with milk. Blääh. Got some really good tips from the "sweet, very sneaky" owner of the B&B and had a spectacular way back home through the Grampian Mountains. The colours were amazing, and the drive intoxicating - unbelievable! Probably the best stops of the road trip was during this leg of the race...Cairn o' Mount, Cock Bridge (we have pics ;) ), Ballater...
Sooner than we knew, we were back (we were actually on time) in Dundee.
As mentioned, this was probably the best road trip ever! We all got something out of it; Jess' got to drive on the wrong side of the road (she was really in her element...), Annina got to take pics, lots and lots of 'em, and Jaakko - well, he was probably the luckiest one, he got to do both! The adventure came to an end, and everything went great. Go team!
Thursday and Friday were brainless days, did exactely what we wanted, when we wanted, didn't worry about anything except getting out of bed (haha) in time to pick up our precious...
...on Saturday we hired a car (Vauxhall Astra, "blue", yeah right. In their eyes at least, seems Scots aren't that bright regarding colours either... ), seated Jess in front of the wheel and started what would turn out to be the best road trip ever! The first leg of the race wasn't that challenging - we made it all the way to the Tesco, about 500m from Arnold Clark's :) Bought something salty and sweet for our exciting adventure - and then we were off. "Up-up-and-awaaaay!" (naaah, back to earth people, we went by car, du-uh.)
First real pit-stop was at Dunnottar Castle in Stonehaven. Gorgeous settings, very picturesque, and supeeeerb weathaaaa (yupp, we've become Sco'ish - or at least Jess seems to think so...) - simply breath-taking!
Continued through Stonehaven, had a cup o' coffee in a cute little place, and headed North. Driving through Aberdeen was pretty interesting, but we found our way out of there and continued up through Peterhead (worth mentioning due to its funny name haha.). Jaakko dozed off for a moment, and suddenly we were off the map! ...but still on the road. That little "back road" was really worth seeing and was probably a short cut...hmm...aaaanyway, arrived in Fraserburgh. Heaaa we had a gourmet dinner at Wimpy's - an experience in itself, Ronan Keating will never be the same again!
Drove through some very creepy sceneries, thank God it was dark...and thank God Jaakko was driving by now, as Jess' imagination got carried away..."what's down there..?" Would be fun to drive that road again in broad daylight though, we were going up-up-up and down-down-down on serpentine roads, and it felt as if we were surrounded by nothing. At this time we started to think about where to stay that night - which turned out to be quite an adventure.
We found our next dare during the darkness. You don't wanna know... completely and utterly creepy.
Aberlour was our host for the night. A small B&B in a even smaller town (haha - doesn't make much sense does it, but hey, you know us). Got cozy in a local pub, tried out some whiskeys (believe it or not, good whiskeys) and really enjoyed a relaxed, well-deserved evening.
Scottish breakfast is by the way Jess' new favourite! not. Bacon (ish) and sausages (ish) together with runny eggs actually drove Jess to sacrifice herself and try cereals with milk. Blääh. Got some really good tips from the "sweet, very sneaky" owner of the B&B and had a spectacular way back home through the Grampian Mountains. The colours were amazing, and the drive intoxicating - unbelievable! Probably the best stops of the road trip was during this leg of the race...Cairn o' Mount, Cock Bridge (we have pics ;) ), Ballater...
Sooner than we knew, we were back (we were actually on time) in Dundee.
As mentioned, this was probably the best road trip ever! We all got something out of it; Jess' got to drive on the wrong side of the road (she was really in her element...), Annina got to take pics, lots and lots of 'em, and Jaakko - well, he was probably the luckiest one, he got to do both! The adventure came to an end, and everything went great. Go team!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Sumimasen, it's been a while, many whiles...
Oh wow... almost embarassed to write here now, after a whole month! Bad of us, we know, but life doesn't always turn out the way we want it, right? :)
Hmm... what's really happened here though? First thing that comes to mind is the party weekend ;) On Friday 26th of October Alfonso and Renata threw a awesome party on two floors...and not only in the apartments, most of the party took place in the staircase :P Really crowded, lots of people - really weird people as well ;) but we had a blast! Met some new German friends - wow, there's actually other nationalities here as well, not only Frenchies ;)
The following day, after having enjoyed our almost daily, very needed "coffee moment", it was time for party no. 2. This took place in Victoria Chambers (not chambers chambers, but a stuent dorm haha.), where Laura (FIN) celebrated her Bday... We were really surprised by the amount of people living together in one apartment (about 16 peeps, 2 kitchens and ONLY 4-5 bathrooms...guess we're quite lucky here after all) - and even more people on this occation... Again lots of new and old faces (haha, not old old, but old u'know haha.)! After some wine and some Spanish Sangría, us silly girlz came up with wall-squeezing ("it's not only a hobby, it's a profession") - seems we're not the only crazy ones here, Patrick (oh sorry, Josh) was eager to join us :) A very fun night indeed! Ramon's phrase is continuously haunting us ;)
...after a crazy weekend in Dundee, followed a even crazier day in London! Left on Tuesday with the night bus, arriving in London the next morning... Just picture this: Jess & Ninnu let lose in the metropolitan London accompanied by our dear cameras and no map :P Don't worry, it all went perfectly fine. Well equipped with all the necessities, we knew just how to act = don't smile at strangers, preferably look a bit crazy, always have your back against the wall, carry pepper spray, handcuffs and a bat, know all the exits...and if someone appears strange, just walk in the other direction (Thank Jess' dad, we now know this by heart :P) - So guess who drew the attention in London ;)
"Sushi, onegaishimasu" - while waiting for Jaakko's bus to arrive (which was the actual reason us crazy Finns went to London), we had a really fun time watching all the different sushi dishes go round and round and round, screaming at us to "pick me, pick me!" - really yummy sushi and yummy prices as well - cost for the hour we sat there: 15000 pounds - at least that's what they tried to get us to pay... but you can't fool us that easily :) ...spotted our first celeb too, so all in all it was a great experience!
Hmm... what's really happened here though? First thing that comes to mind is the party weekend ;) On Friday 26th of October Alfonso and Renata threw a awesome party on two floors...and not only in the apartments, most of the party took place in the staircase :P Really crowded, lots of people - really weird people as well ;) but we had a blast! Met some new German friends - wow, there's actually other nationalities here as well, not only Frenchies ;)
The following day, after having enjoyed our almost daily, very needed "coffee moment", it was time for party no. 2. This took place in Victoria Chambers (not chambers chambers, but a stuent dorm haha.), where Laura (FIN) celebrated her Bday... We were really surprised by the amount of people living together in one apartment (about 16 peeps, 2 kitchens and ONLY 4-5 bathrooms...guess we're quite lucky here after all) - and even more people on this occation... Again lots of new and old faces (haha, not old old, but old u'know haha.)! After some wine and some Spanish Sangría, us silly girlz came up with wall-squeezing ("it's not only a hobby, it's a profession") - seems we're not the only crazy ones here, Patrick (oh sorry, Josh) was eager to join us :) A very fun night indeed! Ramon's phrase is continuously haunting us ;)
...after a crazy weekend in Dundee, followed a even crazier day in London! Left on Tuesday with the night bus, arriving in London the next morning... Just picture this: Jess & Ninnu let lose in the metropolitan London accompanied by our dear cameras and no map :P Don't worry, it all went perfectly fine. Well equipped with all the necessities, we knew just how to act = don't smile at strangers, preferably look a bit crazy, always have your back against the wall, carry pepper spray, handcuffs and a bat, know all the exits...and if someone appears strange, just walk in the other direction (Thank Jess' dad, we now know this by heart :P) - So guess who drew the attention in London ;)
"Sushi, onegaishimasu" - while waiting for Jaakko's bus to arrive (which was the actual reason us crazy Finns went to London), we had a really fun time watching all the different sushi dishes go round and round and round, screaming at us to "pick me, pick me!" - really yummy sushi and yummy prices as well - cost for the hour we sat there: 15000 pounds - at least that's what they tried to get us to pay... but you can't fool us that easily :) ...spotted our first celeb too, so all in all it was a great experience!
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