Travelling Momma!

Well, exciting news first! I'm gonna be a mommy! If you didn't know that yet, then we need to talk...so call me!! I'm over half-way there already...and things are going great.

In less exciting (but still exciting) news, I am back in Canada. It is kind of weird being back at home, because it feels like nothing has changed. Like before, I am living with my parents during the "waiting for a house" phase, working casually at DS, visiting friends, talking to my sweetheart via Skype...
That being said though, I am planning for a wedding, a baby, and moving my Grandma into a personal care home and me into her house! So, busy, busy!!

I spent July traveling Europe. In early July, I visted a friend in Florence, Italy for 3 days (32C!!). The rest of the month, I spent traveling around the United Kingdom. I stopped for 24 hours in London (22C), took the bus/ferry to Dublin (20C), did a 7-day bus tour of Ireland (15-20C, brr!!), hung out in Dublin for a few days, and traveled to Edinburgh, Inverness (didn't see the Loch Ness monster), and Oban (a seaport town) in Scotland (on average 24C).

It's hard to say what place I liked the best...but the scenery in Ireland was absolutely breath-taking.

Here are some of my favourite pictures:

Bridges in Florence, Italy

Stone wall in south Ireland

Beach in south Ireland

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

The Aran island of Inis Mor, West Ireland

Sitting on the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland

Resting on a Dublin doorstep, Ireland

Searching for Nessie on the shores of Loch Ness, Scotland

Inverness Pipe Band, Scotland

Overlooking the Isle of Kerrera from Oban, Scotland

Arthur's Seat in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland

A friend and I on Calton Hill, overlooking Edinburgh