{"id":932,"date":"2011-11-09T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T23:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2013-09-15T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T23:59:41","slug":"71399-day-5-ferrycanterbury-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"7\/13\/99 Day 5 “Ferry\/Canterbury Day”"},"content":{"rendered":"

[A continuation of the travel diary I kept during the summer of 1999 when I took a European trip with members of my high school French class. Thankfully, Steven took French as well. — Present-day Carrie]<\/em><\/p>\n

Sitting in Canterbury, as in the Canterbury Tales. Stupid black pen leaked*. Went through the Cathedral. On our way to Dover to get on a ferry to Calais to get on a bus to go to Paris. No more London. Darn, just as I was getting used to it. But I’ve got to shut up now so I can throw away this pen mess I’ve made.<\/p>\n

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*later that day*<\/p>\n

I’m on a boat! I’m on a boat! I’m on a boat!!! This is so fun, there’s sea spray and we’re leaving a double screw wake behind us**, & its windy & cold, & we ate at a McDonalds on the boat, & its ever so nice. We’re crossing the English Channel on our way to Calais don’t ya know. Wow, this is too spiffy! I’ve never been on a boat this big before, and where I can’t see the land anywhere around us. Total ocean, or channel, whatever. This is mostly a travel day, but I’m loving this boat! Steven did that black pen mark, I didn’t do it.^<\/p>\n

This is so very nice. I’m going to have to go on a cruise someday. Fantastic! Steven said he’d take me. I’ll have to hold him to that, ha.^^ Wonder how long it’ll be before we get there. Hopefully it’ll take quite a while. I like the boat. Someday I’m going to sail to Europe on a boat I am.<\/p>\n

Tell you what though. I must be losing a ton of hair. Everywhere I go I’m picking it off of my bookbag or my shirt or Steven or my hairbrush. It gets annoying. Maybe I’m going bald.<\/p>\n

How can people get seasick on a boat anyway. Yeah, its going up & down & up & down, but it’s rather relaxing and very fun trying to balance yourself. Fun just sitting here and moving along w\/ the boat’s jostles & such.<\/p>\n

Ken hams it up<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

Laughs like a duck; sleeps like a fish<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

Canterbury Cathedral<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

Canterbury Stained Glass Windows<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Becket<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Purple Cliffs of Dover<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m on a boat!<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

The White Cliffs of Dover<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

Nerd.<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

*My pen busted and there’s ink splotches and fingerprints all over the page.<\/p>\n

**Nerd<\/p>\n

^He wrote on my book<\/p>\n

^^He hasn’t yet, but his grandparents have. And it was bloody fantastic.<\/p>\n

And for the record, that boat crossing across the Channel ended all too soon for me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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