The Last Supper

Even though I did have a huge celebration on my last Saturday in town, I still had to have my last-official-night-in-Jersey celebration. We went to dinner at my favorite Indian restaurant in Jersey called Kaiyums. It was great because I had less than 10 hours until I had to wake up to catch my plane and we were ordering bottles of wine like they were going out of style. I also still had a tiny bit of packing to do at home, oops! After dinner we met up with more of my Jersey friends at the Royal Yacht for a few more drinks. It was fun, but sad too. I love nights like that and I didn't want this one to end. Unfortunately it did end though, and now I'm back in Florida sweating to death. I miss everyone there, and especially miss my second family! See you guys in November, but everyone else: Come visit me in Florida!

xx

Lindsay

My Last Night In Town!

I had such an amazing night on my last Saturday in town. First, I was taken to the Buddha Bar for a Thai dinner by Gyles and his lovely family. I finally realized, on my last night in town ordering Thai food, that I have no idea how to order Thai. It always comes out way too hot for me. Like Chris said the next morning, I don't think anyone will be running back to that place anytime soon. It was good, but I need more experience with Thai before I go back. After our delicious and mouth-numbing dinner we all met at the Royal Yacht for drinks. Thank you to everyone who came! I couldn't have been more happy with the people who turned up to my last-night-out gathering. I love and miss all of you so much already! I definitely had such a memorable and fun time. Cheers!

xx

Lindsay

A Tribute to the Cinema Group...

This post is purely dedicated to the "Official Members-Only Cinema Group". The original members of OMOCG are: myself, Trish, Beth, Tom Wilson, and Alex Gibb. Of course because of how popular our group became a few jealous stragglers wanted to join in on us the following Tuesdays, which is the day of the week our group meets at Cineworld. Those stragglers, I mean, other members include, but were never limited to: Gyles, Nicola Millner, and Alex Schilalilililay.

 The tradition starts off on Tuesdays at dinner time, or tea time as they say here, when we (Trish, Beth and I) have dinner at Partners and then usually, in a mad dash, we head over to Cineworld at the Waterfront for a movie.

The first movie we went to see together as an original group was Sex and The City 2. It was supposed to be just the girls, but Tom and Alex wanted to see it too, so we invited them! And the group was born that night. The other movies we all saw as a group were She's Out of My League and Killers. Because of the number of things we all had to do each week we didn't get to go to as many movies together as we wanted, but the times we did have together were so much fun!

Thank you so much to all of the members and to the staff at Cineworld for always letting Beth get the student rate discount without her student card. Also, special thanks to Richard for always pleasantly and perfectly collecting our tickets as we entered the theatre and flawlessly ripping them in half. We love you. I'll miss our tradition, but I hope the original members, and the late-joiners, carry it on when I'm gone.
x x
Lindsay

Destination: Guernsey!

Hello, my darlings!

So, I finally managed to make it to Jersey's rival island--Guernsey, and I must say, I really enjoyed it. Gyles and I only had enough time to spend two days there, but it was plenty of time to see what I wanted to see and hang out with his cousin Daniel and his beautiful wife-to-be (and mother-to-be), Sarah.

We took the good ol' Condor Ferry to Guernsey around 4:30p.m., so by the time we got there and settled in it was time for dinner. We were treated to a BBQ at their lovely, new house where we were staying for the next two days. I'm a born-again vegetarian, so they cooked me up a delicious, meaty tuna steak that I poured way too many chili flakes on. Hot! I missed out on the Thai Green curry sausages that Daniel had going on the barbie along with steaks, chicken and shishkabobs. I ate the veggies off of one skewer and passed the cubes of chicken on to Gyles' plate. The real treat at dinner though was the garden-fresh vegetables that Sarah's dad grew himself. We had perfect potatoes and crisp, bright green snap peas! We were also served a delicious homemade caesar salad that Sarah made herself from scratch! The creamy dressing was fantastic mixed in with the salad and Parmesan shavings. We watched some TV, ate some Magnum White ice cream bars, played a few games of Rummy and then headed upstairs to get our beauty sleep for the next day.

 

On our second day we had an early start! Sarah kindly dropped us off at the Little Chapel on her way to work. The Little Chapel is possibly the smallest chapel in the world! "It was built by Brother Déodat who started work in March 1914. His plan was to create a miniature version of the famous grotto and basilica at Lourdes in France. Guardianship of the Little Chapel now rests with Blanchelande Girls College, which is run by a Charitable Trust." WOW! What an amazing sight to see. The website I saw for it on some Guernsey tourist site did this wonderful work of art no justice at all. You have to either see it in person, or see it for yourself from my pictures! I took a bunch while I was there because I didn't want you guys to miss any of it. It's crazy what can be done with millions of pieces of broken plates, mugs, blue china, shells and stained glass! Absolutely beautiful and I'm so happy we went to see it first thing in the morning.

 

 

See! It's truly a beautiful sight. We only spent about 20 minutes there because we wanted to catch the next bus down to the Princess Elizabeth Hospital where Gyles' nan lives. We got off at our stop and walked a good 15 minutes to the ward. After our visit we walked to the Hertz Rental station down the road to get our hire car! From there we took off to town for some shopping and lunch. I was delighted to finally find a Guernsey shot glass for my awesome cousin Kat who collects them. I tried every tourist-y store we passed until I found one in the last shop we popped into. Success!

We finished up in town and darted back to the house to meet Daniel for the England game that started at 3. I changed into my England shirt and then we walked down to Daniel's local pub. It's not your typical English pub though, it had colorful, glass lanterns in all shapes and sizes hanging from the ceiling. Moroccan-inspired carpets layed out on the floors with two-seater, dark brown leather couches set up in rows in front of a huge, drop-down projector screen, which was playing the England v. Slovenia game of course. Next to all of the two-seater sofas were single leather couches. We grabbed a trio of seats in the front rows and I sank into my single sofa with a cold pint of cider and black in my hand. USA was playing at the same time, and I'm glad in the end we (England and America) both advanced.

After the game we walked back to the house and got ready for dinner. We ate at the Crow's Nest down in town on top of a bar. It was great except I think I'm allergic to shellfish. I ordered mussels for dinner and later on that night I was sick to my stomach. I was also sick the night I devoured lobster. Who knows what caused me to be sick both nights, but I will definitely be avoiding shellfish for a long time to come.

This morning Gyles and I took a tour of the island before we had to turn ourselves in to the harbour for departure back to Jersey. We ate lunch at a quaint, Thai-garden themed restaurant right next to the town's church. Now we're off to watch the game somewhere in town, or maybe we might stay in for the night. Two weeks from today I'll be home with my mommy and daddy in Ft. Myers! I can't wait to see you guys and Lauren and Bandit and everyone else. Post soon!

xx

Lindsay

p.s.-I just realized today that I really miss Starbucks!

p.s.s.-Comments are greatly appreciated =)

England v. USA

I hope the pictures speak for themselves. It was a tied score, which was great for us. A ridiculously fun night in town at a rowdy, England-fan-filled bar with my love. I miss all of my American friends and family and I love every single one of you.

ps- mom, this was the night I rang you. I love you!!

xx

Lindsay