Croeso y Gymru!

Back again from another adventurous weekend.
On Friday night, I met a few friends to figure out my European expedition in April. As it stands now, I will be going to Greece (Athens), Italy (Bolgna, Rome, Florence, Venice), France (Nice, Paris), Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, San Sebastian), Switzerland (Zurich), Germany (Munich, Berlin), and Czech (Prague). I am so excited, but I really need to get to booking stuff asap.
Saturday morning I woke up, packed up my bag, and headed off to meet the bus for my trip to Wales. Once I opened the door, I saw it....snow. Now, as most people know, I love snow. I think it is beautiful and wonderful. But this time, snow and I were not on such good terms. My shoes got soaked, and were wet for the rest of the day. Luckily, Wales' beauty made up for it. Our first stop was in Conwy. We went to a delicious little bakery where I got a steak and potato pie. Then we were off to see Conwy Castle. Here are some pictures from the castle:

We then walked around the town a bit, looking at the water and seeing Britain's tiniest house. It was a cute seaside town.

We then hopped back on the bus and headed to Llandudno (no idea how to pronounce that). We took a hike up Great Orme, which lead us past this park where we learned that Lewis Carroll met the girl who inspired Alice in the town, so there were a lot of Alice in Wonderland little references throughout the town. The view from the top of the hill was breathtaking. We watched the sun begin to fall, and then walked back.

We then went to dinner, where I had some fish and chips. We walked around the town for a while, eventually stopping in Grumpy's Sweet Shop, where I bought fudge (it was rather disappointing) and a bag of Yorkshire mixture, which is just a mix of a bunch of different hard candies. We met everyone in the group at a bar where it was karaoke night. I think a lot of the locals thought our tour group was crazy. After that, a few of us still had heaps of energy, and went to go find somewhere to dance. We first tried a nearby bar, but walked in to find no music playing at all. So two of the girls I was with asked a few local girls where to go. We just hear them shouting, "You're AMERICAN! Say Texas. Say Amy. Say Victoria." It was hilarious hearing them. We did get a name of a place, walked there, and danced for a while. The next morning we were up early, off to Aber to see one of Wale's biggest waterfalls, Aber Falls. It was an hour walk to the waterfall, and I actually was a little disappointed. It was beautiful, but I feel like I have seen prettier. The stream we walked by to get there, though, was incredibly beautiful.

We then hopped back on the bus, off to Betws-y-Coed for lunch. I got a delicious lamb fillet. Unfortunately I can not remember all of the details of the sauce and the stuff on top, but it was amazing. It was then off to the Aled's sheep farm, where we watched a sheep fashion show. That basically means a nice Welsh man brought out a bunch of different types of sheeps and explained them to us. You may be thinking, why would you go to a sheep farm? That sounds lame. But actually, in Wales, there are four sheep for every person. So we were just visitng that majority. Afterward, we saw how a sheep dog (breed was a Border Collie) herds sheep. And we saw some adorable puppies. All of which only made me miss my dogs.

Tonight I went to basketball again. It was a lot of fun! We found out they are having a tournament in March that we are allowed to participate in with them. Its against school in Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool. It should be pretty fun. I'm just excited to be playing again, even if it is mostly drills right now.

Your new sheep pro,
Jessica