Christmas Market and Shenanigans :)

Well it's been a fun day :) It's still freezing in my room so after classes I snuggled under my blankets and watched a few more episodes of Soap.  When Jen and Meghan got out of class I met them at the Christmas Market.  There were a bunch of stalls selling food, gifts, and had live music with fake snow flying around.  Meghan and I went on the carnival ride swings and the three of us bought a bunch of food.  One of my favorite bakers was there and was selling flapjacks (not pancakes...they are like epic versions of granola bars) so I bought some to last me for a couple days. It was pretty cold but there were Christmas lights and it just felt wonderful.

After that we headed back to our flat and I headed back over to County Bar to meet up with the Study Abroad Society exec for drinks.  They got me a card :) It was really nice!
I headed back to my flat and Meghan and I made spaghetti for dinner with chicken, spinach, onions, garlic and tomatoes.  It was delicious! After that I actually fell asleep on Meghan's for a few minutes O_o.  Haha  oops! I woke up and we ended up taking a bunch of random pictures.  We were also chatting with Jen's sister on skype and the four of us were giggling :).  Then, Meghan and I ran away to make a giant cookie...which took AGES to cook because the oven in our flat is awful.  We brought it into Jen's room and the three of us ate it right out of the pan! About an hour later, Meghan decided she was going to head back to try and do notes and I very stealthily snuck her laptop into my room and hid it. :-P I eventually gave it back and she headed out.

It is nights like these that I will miss so much.  The three of us just hanging out and being absolutely ridiculous together...usually after consuming chocolate :D.  Haha at one point we were all looking each other and jokingly saying "Why are we friends??? I've only known you for a month or two!?!?!?!?!?" I'm really going to miss those two.  But Jen will be coming to visit me for New Years and the 3 of us will probably try to figure out a trip somewhere over the summer when Meghan gets back.  Meghan will be here for the rest of the year.   So I will be totally living vicariously through her via her blog, pictures, letters, EVERYTHING.

I think the other thing that will be difficult for me once I return home is the sheer inability to travel.  I can't just hop on a train and be somewhere new and interesting in an hour, and I definitely can't do it last minute.  I have fallen in love with the ability to hop on a train whenever, watch the English countryside go by, and explore some random place...even if I had already been there.  There are so many places in England that are less than 15 quid return to get to, and I could just get lost there for the day.  The place I will miss the most other than Lancaster? Probably even more than Lancaster?  London.  I'm glad that I will have a few hours there before I have to hop on the train to Paris.  I will miss that city so much.  Okay, time to get some more cleaning done while listening to One Direction.
Have a good night everyone! <3
~Carolyn