January and February

During January it was blistering cold and snowy all month long. It was too cold to go do anything, so i spent most of the time in January in the house working on homework. It was very depressing.

February was much much better though. We spent most of the time in Scotland and Ireland, where it was warmer, and we could actually see the ground with no snow.

The first place we went was Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh was probably my favorite city so far. It was the most American place in that I've been to. There were many interesting sites there, including the Elephant Bar, where J.K Rowling first started writing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She actually currently resides in Edinburgh. I didn't get to see her though. :( Also in Edinburgh, there was Dr. Pepper, which they do not have in Poland. They didn't have any root beer there, so I'm gonna have to wait until i get home for that. Some other sites in Edinburgh that i saw were the Scottish Writer's museum, which included authors such as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

After 4 days in Edinburgh we went on a plane ride across the Irish Sea to Dublin, Ireland. I found Dublin to be not as good as Edinburgh but it was still good. Unlike Edinburgh, which was all packed together and easy to get to, Dublin was more spread out, and you had to take more buses. Some interesting sites in Dublin included St. Patrick's cathedral, where in the courtyard of the church, St. Patrick himself baptized the pagans of Ireland. Another site was the viking museum, which was interesting. Ireland was overrun by Vikings in the 1500s, so that was what the museum was about. On our last full day we went to the Dublin zoo, which reminded me of the KC zoo. It was under renovation so we didn't get to see some of the animals like the penguins, but it was still good.

My next blog will be about March, where we didn't go anywhere, but my aunt Pam came to Poland.