Departure...T-3 hours and counting

Well, the day has finally come. Today, my parents and I leave for England. Yay! It doesn't seem quite real, yet, but I suppose it will soon. I'm packed, I'm taking my huge backpack, and a carrion bag (Oops! I meant carry-on...really) I borrowed from Joel.

We picked a pretty good day to leave, too. It's been raining here in beautiful Regina, and there's even been a forecast for snow! So, soon we'll be heading to rain...I mean, sunny London, for two weeks of travel in England and Ireland.

I don't know how frequently I'll have access to the internet during my travels, but I'll try to put up posts of the various places we visit as often as I can.

For those who care, our itinerary is as follows:
11:20 a.m., Woden's Day: Leave Regina.
some other time, same day: Arrive in Toronto, sit there for a while.
mid-morning, Thor's Day: Arrive in London. We are then going to spend the afternoon in Oxford. I've been there once before, there are so many neat places to see there! I particularly liked going to the various colleges, including going to the one where Tolkien lectured at.
Freya's Day: We've got a 'sail and rail' package set-up to head over to Ireland. We take the train to Fishguard, Wales, and then take the ferry over to Rosslare, Ireland. We'll be spending Saturn's Day and Sun's Day with our relatives in Ireland, and, among other sights, will get to see the castle in our family, Ballyteige.


On Moon's Day, we head into Dublin, and spend the rest of that day and half of Tiu's Day there, before taking the ferry from Dublin to Hollyhead Island, and then the train back to Reading.

After that, the itinerary gets a little fuzzy...I know we'll be spending a day at Avesbury, we have an overnight trip planned to Lyme Regis, and a day in London. There will be a few other places as well, I'm just not sure yet what they will be.

Then we return to Regina on Moon's Day, May 15th! Anyway, I will take many pictures on my trip, and will hope to show them to all of you upon my return...unless I meet a pretty Irish girl and decide not to come back. You know how it is. How can you say 'no' to the Irish?

As I don't have any more pictures from the current trip, and the one of the castle above was sort of cheating (seeing as how it was from last trip), I leave you with a picture of Bo. Isn't she cute?