Birmingham! - Summer 2003

Emily's Adventure's in Birmingham.

Went to shops, the train station and caught the train to  Nicky's. Changed trains Birmingham from Moor Street Station to New Station. We had to walk, hauling luggage with us.  Larry's bag is going in the trash. It blew up on me in Birmingham. Birmingham is the worst place in the world. I don't EVER want to have to go back there again...AHHH! To get from one train station to the other you have to get off your train, cross a busy street, go through a mall, up cobble stone hills, through another street, go around a corner, cross another street, go over a bridge, over a hill, and then to another intersection- where a lady yells at you. This lady like came up to me and was like, "YOU SHOULD HAVE CROSSED WITH YOUR PEOPLE!" "You were supposed to go!" I just looked at her like..."Who in the crike are you?" and she goes, "Never mind I guess you don?t speak English." I just went across the street...whatever. 

Then we finally arrived at the train station. So anyway, its 100 degrees outside, Larry's bag explodes..in the middle of the street, bottom falls out, rips open...using Luke's rucksack to get back home. There are splinters of wood coming out of the bottom of Larry's and the so-called "wheels" aren’t wheels. It's a health hazard I tell ya!

Went to get on the train. I went to first class and asked if it was and the lady said "Yes," and I said "Good cause we are on first class." She looked at me and like put all of our bags like 10 miles away and then tried to make us sit in these horrible seats and then I said..."You mean to tell me that our bags have to be way back there in the middle of the walk way and you say it's a hazard if they stay there so we have to move them to another cart at another stop, but its not a hazard for people to sit there? We cant have our bags in this cart with us?" And she said, "Are you first class?" I said "Yes" and she goes, "Well why didn’t you tell me that?" I was like ARGH! I did tell her that...It was just NOT a good day..haha..people are weird. 

Then when she knew we were first class she like ushered us in and we didn’t have to do anything from there on. Got off that train, got on another one..Tom told us he would bring us our bags..but he didn’t...

Got to Niky's in Dumbarton, Scotland. Thank God. Ate pasta and konked out. Woke up to these two guys out across the street trying to kill each other. They yelled for like ever. One was shirtless and the other one had on a football type jersey. They had two girls with them except that the girls were in the phone booth crying their eyes out. The guys were like fighting and yelling- obviously drunk. One was shouting and the other one would run across the street and trying to clobber him. I swear I thought someone was going to die. They just kept yelling for a couple of hours. I laid back down and heard someone honk their horn because the guy had run out in the street. I just laid back down and prayed for a while, that someone wouldn’t die. It was a very scary feeling to think that I was going to witness someone dying. Nikki called the cops and the police came and arrested them...