Well...where to start. First of all I am very new at this blogging thing so I don't really know what I'm doing but hopefully I'll figure it out soon. But I wanted to start this blog to finish out this semester...possibly my last one at BYU-Idaho...and then have it and update it all about my trip to Europe coming up soon!!! I'm going through BYU-Idaho with a big group of students, it's called the British Literary Tour and we go all over. I'm so very excited and leave on May 2nd!!!! A little bit about where we'll be going....
We fly from Salt Lake to Dublin then spend two days in Galway, Ireland. We go to Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, Connemara and Inishmore then go to Drumcliff and Sligo and drive to Dublin. In Holyhead (I think Ireland still) we go to Trinity College, Dublin Writers Museum. Then we make our way to Bradford (now in England I believe) and go to Snowdonia, Conwy, Liverpool's Merseyside Museum, go to Sacrament meeting there, then go to Keighley, Skipton, the Bronte Parsonage (the house of Emily and Charlotte when they lived with their father) and the moors right by the house (which I have heard are amazing!) Then still in Bradford we go to Dove Cottage, Rydal Mount, Grasmere, Hilltop Farm, Hawkshead. Then we go to Stratford, England (which Stratford Upon Avon is the birthplace of Shakespeare!) and go to York, the Sherwood Forest (the forest in Robin Hood) and the Royal Shakespeare Company. We also go to Oxford (which a lot of scenes for Harry Potter movies were shot there...like the library at Hogswarts is the Oxford library), Blenheim Palace, Bourton on the Water, Hidcote Manor, Warwick Medieval Centre, Kenilworth Castle and another Shakespeare play. Then we go to the Open Market and Shakespeare Properties. Then we spend two days in Bath. We go to Benbow Farm, Gadfield Elm Chapel, Tintern Abbey, Bath, then go to Sacrament meeting, Wells and Glastonbury. Then two days in Southampton. We go to Lyme Regis, Dorchester, Stinsford, Bockhampton, Bere Regis, Stonehenge, Wilton House, Old Sarum, and Salisbury. Then we have three days in London!!!! We go to Winchester, Jane Austen House in Chawton, West End Theatre, Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathederal, British Library, Globe Theatre, British Museum, National Gallery, Westminster Abbey, Theatre. And I belive while we are in London each of the three nights or maybe only two we go to a play. So I think I'll be seeing Wicked and Phantom of the Opera!!!! Then we take the Eurostar to Paris (which is a train that goes under the channels) and spend five days in Paris!!!!!!! OH I'M SO EXCITED! So in Paris we go to Champs-Elysees Montmartre, Sacrament meeting, Notre Dame, Sainte Chapelle, Seine Cruise, Musee du Lourve, Arc de Triomphe, Monte Cristo, Musee d'Orsay, Musee Rodin, Victor Hugo House, Chateau de Versailles, Trocadero and finally the Eiffel Tower!!! And then we fly from Paris back to Salt Lake. So obviously it's going to be AMAZING! And even though I don't know what half of these places really are I will soon and I guess you will too if you continue to read the Happy Trails of Hayley...I'll keep you updated on my traveling adventures!!
Well that will do it for this post but hopefully that gives you a little sense of what I'll be doing in less than two months. And I'll try to write a post about what's been going on in my life for the past while asap as possible and more of whats to come. Have a great day!!!!
Well it's probably about time I wrote on here again, I know all you followers of mine are just hangin' on the edge of your seats just waiting to find out what it is that I'll do next. Well hmmm let me tell you. I really don't have much to report...just been trudging along through school trying to finish out my classes for this semester. But the good news is....well really the GREAT SPLENDID FABULOUS FANTASTIC news is that I leave in Europe in exactly 5 weeks from today!!!! I can't wait. It's definitely going to be an amazing experience that I know I will never forget and memories that will stay with me forever. Well just to update you a little bit on my past semester. Me and Trevor have been dating since the beginning of June 2009! It doesn't seem like it has been as long as it really has. But it's going great! 
A little about Valentines Day! Trevor got me beautiful flowers, lots of chocolates and balloons. It was a great day and we celebrated by going out to dinner and walking around campus for his job! What a fun romantic night huh? It was a lot of fun though just being with him and having the evening to relax (on campus haha) and enjoy my many gifts. For Trevor I got a twizlberry gift card because it is one of the best ice cream places ever to exist!! Needless to say we go there way tooo much!!! But it's sooo yummy we just can't stay away. And then me and my lovely roommate Erika found some finger paints in our apartment from a past semester so we finger painted cards for our boys. My attempts to draw hearts weren't very good...a five year old probably would have done better, as they are experts in the art of finger painting. And then on the inside I wrote lyrics of songs that have significance meaning in our relationship. Haha. Like I say our song is a song called To Show You My Love by Mike Schmit!! It's an amazing song! If you haven't heard it you have to listen to it. And then lyrics of Two is Better Than One by Boys Like Girls and Taylor Swift because it's the first song we danced to together in my apartment kitchen. To share that story...it was the first week of Fall semester and there was a dance at the stadium (which is right across the street) so we could hear the music so when that song started playing we danced in the kitchen. So back to my card I made Trevor, I thought it was very cute and of course he liked it. In fact it's still hanging on his wall...well at least I think so. So as I'm sure you can see my adventures with Trevor have been great! And continue on as we trudge along everyday until this semester is over. Speaking of adventures to be had....ME AND ERIKA!! For those of you who know us we can be pretty crazy and have had some pretty grand ole times. Recently at good ol' Walmart we found some stick on tattoos! So lately we have been putting those all over. We call them our tramp stamps!!!
Besides Trevor and my adventures with Erika I'm taking a photography class this semester!! It is so much fun and I'm learning so much, and I would like to say I'm getting better! I can't wait to be in Europe and have some of the most amazing places to photograph!! Well I guess that's about all from me but be sure to tune back in soon to read all about the fun adventures I'm having for my last couple weeks in the snowy tundra of Rexburg! Well hope all is going great for you and that all your wildest new dreams come true. Don't ever give up hope and always shoot for the moon...even if you miss you'll land among the stars. I'll be back with more soon. Over and Out!!
