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So, I'm on summer vacation, and currently enjoying my first ever trip to Europe. After 10 hours on a united flight where they never picked up my trash (so I was surrounded by empty gin bottles and spent cans of tonic water) we finally landed in London. We are only here for a few hours while we wait for our flight to Amsterdam, so we are hangin' in the mall area by our gate for the connecting bmi flight. I'm freakin' tired. Emma and I watched a woman from India throw up into a number of trash cans around the area where we are sitting. It felt weird. I mean it really is the middle of the night at home. My friend told me to stay awake as long as possible so that the jet lag wouldn't be as bad. I hope that is sound advice.

What's fun though is that with my shiny new green ipod, I have taken myself and my daughter on a small musical tour of the area. We listened to Feist's My Moon My Man as we danced around on the people mover here at Heathrow, and I'm really enjoying listening to Lily Allen sing about London as I'm sitting in London. We are all having fun at the moment, watching a tiny kid destroy a stray laptop and then move on to damaging furniture while his mom is talking on her cell phone.

So, we are here because we did a house exchange, and if one more person asks me, "oh like that movie, Holiday?" I'll kill them with my bare hands. Yes. Exactly like that movie. I'm Cameron Fucking Diaz (is that who is in that movie?). Actually, because I didn't have the power of Hollywood set dressers, the hapless family that comes to our house is going to have to deal with a lot of red dirt and ground in cat hair, not a charming ex boyfriend. The family is actually going to pick us up at Schipol in Amsterdam because they don't leave until Monday, whenever that is. I'm scared for them to see us like this, our hair greasy and all of us hallucinating and using swear words. We have to put ourselves together.

I know this post seems negative, but it actually is great fun, just being in the airport, travelling, etc... I know this trip will be fun. It was so great just to fly over the Thames, see the giant ferris wheel, and know that I am really far away from all that troubles me at home. More when we get to Amsterdam!