Thursday, August 17, 2006

   okies, lets see if i can do this...
so tired...should have...gone to bed...ealier...bleah... @.@

btw, there's a lorra pics today, so bare with me. it might take a while to load.

okies, here is the update of the last couple of weeks...lets see if i can remember it all...

okies, first off, i have finally got myself a job again. Im back at the hospital doing catering work like i was last winter. its not brilliant, buts its a fairly easy job and it pays well. i go back next week.

yesterday i went up to London for the Royal Air Force careers presentation. i've gotta fill out a few more forms and arrange a filter interview now. im gonna be busy busy. i've gotta do a lotta research before the interview too. make sure im well prepared etcetera...
i also visited Forbidden Planet yesterday and picked up MegaTokyo vol 4, Gundam Lost War Chronicles vol 2 and Evangelion: Angelic Days vol 2. Im really enjoying Angelic Days, the alternate version of Rei is so fscking cute! ^^

I also picked up this lil fella...



part of my recent Panda-Z obsession. ^^;;

today, if i get my act together and finish this off soon, i will be going off to do some gardening for my aunt, and get paid for it. ^^ which would be nice.

anyways, here are some photos from my recent holiday. im not gonna detail out exactly what i did all week, im just gonna show you a selection of photos and tell ya where they're from.
if you DO however wanna know what i did with my week in a slightly surreal and bizzare way, you can check out my Holiday Diary Comic. its weird, its messy and there six parts to it. follow the links, if you dare.

anyways, Photos! normal hidden goodies to be found. just gotta find the alt text... (EDIT: Damned photobucket has resized most of my photos, so you're gonna have to trust what i say when it comes to the details. DAMN YOU TO HELL PHOTOBUCKET!)


The cottage we stayed in for a week. I had to share a room with my younger brother (*whispers* HE SNORES!) lol


This is an old slate quarry. there are trails around some of it and the other part is being used by a power company to house their Hydro-Generator.


The Snowdon Mountain Railway. We decided to climb Snowdon to the halfway point. theres a lil house there called Halfway House that sells food and stuffs. we coulda gone all the way to the top, but we didnt have enough time and it got a lot harder on the 2nd half.


okies, im not actually doing this in chronological order...this was on one of the first days when we went to a zoo. this lil fella just waited patiently at the gate cuz he knew it was almost feeding time.


The tigers were probably one of the coolest animals at the zoo.


along with the alligators. Fantastic.


This was a huge water wheel found at the Welsh Slate Museum. It powered like...EVERYTHING in the workshops when the museum used to be the place where they processed the slate.
BTW, i know that the Welsh Slate Museum sounds like a hella boring place to visit, but i quite enjoyed it. I've always had an interest in the indusrial heritidge (sp?) of places i visit. i dunno. i just get a kick out of old places like this.


Una, the steam engine. Used to shuttle slate back and forth around the quarry. IS OVER A 100 YEARS OLD. stuff like that is important. i think so anyway.


Welsh Slate Museum, from above (we were standing on a hill...)

here are some pretty good views of the valley in which Snowdon is a part of.





the last pic is of the town of Llanberis. The welsh language is about half english, half celtic and some words sound the same as they do in english, but are spelt completely different. Place names are the best. Some of the places we visited included Conwy and Llandudno. The best place is this lil town called...ready?

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

i am NOT kidding you. it means ""St. Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave." and really does exist. (Random Fact: if you think that name is hella long and un-pronouncable, theres a place in Thailand called
Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnop- paratrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathit- sakkattiyavisanukamprasit.

so there.)


now we get on to my fav part. This was a trail we walked around part of the old quarry. When the quarry was shut down about 40 or so years ago, they practically just dropped everything and left it where it was. so around the trail are all these trucks and buildings and train tracks that have just been abandoned. It was really surreal, but i loved it. I love the concept of something thats just been abandoned and left un-used for ages. i know, im strange.


Abandoned wheel house.


another wheel house. they used these to get trucks of slate up and down the side of the mountain.


a totally unexpected and random Mountain Goat we saw whilst walking


This crevice was created purely by dynamite blasting. the lake at the bottom is this freaky turquoise colour and is used by a dive club for scuba divers and stuff.


Anglesey Barracks. why they had Barracks halfway up the side of a mountain, i dont know, nor do i know why it was called Anglesey Barracks, because Anglesey is an island off the coast of Wales, and a blooming long way from here.


I think this is my Fav picture out of all the wheelhouse pictures. i dunno why. I think its just the way it came out.

so thats it for photos from wales. we did other stuff as well, like going to see my Brothers show in Conwy Castle, going to see "Cars" at the cinema, going bowling, going to the beach (tho it was really windy and cold) and of course, it was my brothers 22nd birthday whilst we were away.


so thats it from me today. im now wide awake, and need breakfast. i leave you with todays CDD



if ya cannae see it all too well (damn you Photobucket!) click on the image to see a better version.

welp, until next time my friends, see ya, toodles and sayonara...






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