First off, I'd like to say that
InvaderMar's account is back in her control, and everything is fine now. In case you hadn't heard, her password for her dA account, email, Skype, Bebo, and Facebook had all been stolen, but again, it's been sorted.
So then! The Scotland trip!
Before Mar came to the states, I flew out to visit her in Scotland. I absolutely love it there, and, after all, Mar didn't want to be by herself on her
first time ever flying on an airplane (can't blame her for that
)! But anyways, I arrived in Glasgow on the 1
st of January. You'd think that Mar would stop being shy to meet me by then, but nope; she still acted all cute and innocent and made all sorts of adorable little facial expressions when her mom and her picked me up from the airport.
You should see how cute her reaction is when I tell her she's beautiful.
After I checked in, Mar and I had a quick lunch, and I, as I having gotten no sleep on the plane, fell asleep in the hotel pretty much immediately after that. In fact, my sleeping routine was so bad while I was in Glasgow that Mar and I ended up missing dinner quite a few times because of it.
But anyways, Scotland was cool even though Mar and I ended up just kind of chilling out most of the time.
Part of that though is due to the fact that I caught a nasty cold from my brother the DAY before I left (
) and Mar caught it from me, and she ended up getting it worse than I had.
We were going to have a devmeet arranged by Mar and
in-art-we-trust while I was there, but due to circumstances, including Mar and I being so sick, it never happened. We were also gonna meet up with some members of Mar's family, but again, we were so sick that we couldn't.
We did, however, meet up with
ReapersShadow, who took a train in to Glasgow thinking the meet was still on, and we hung out with him for a few hours and had fun.
By the 6
th of January, it was time to head back to Texas and take Mar on her first plane rides!
The trip over to America would have been good if not for the fact that Mar was
still sick by the time we were on the planes. I had gotten over my cold by about the day before, but poor Mar had to deal with it while sitting on a cramped airplane for hours and hours. :< We ended up taking turns playing New Super Mario Bros. on the DS while on the plane, and she
kept on dying and making us lose lives over and over again!! was very, very good at it.
Aaaanyways, we only BARELY made our flight from Dallas to Austin, and we were really relieved to finally get to my parents' house.
While we were in Austin, we ended up doing a number of things, going to different restaurants, places, and such. One place we ended up going to multiple times was Dave and Buster's, a really good arcade they have around the United States. I was so addicted to this one game where you breed, train, and race a horse to win races, building its stats up as you go. I ended up getting in the monthly top earning horses, I was so addicted to it.
Mar, on the other hand, was really good at this game where you spin this giant wheel and have to press a button to stop the light in any section of the wheel, and the number in the section determines how many tickets you get. She kept getting the 500 ticket jackpot like every three times so we ended up with TONS of tickets from that, and she was able to get gifts from Dave and Buster's for much of her family just from those tickets.
Oh, oh, and there was also this trivia game there that was really fun, and you competed against like five other people to win tickets from it. Mar and I each won it once, and one of the questions was, "When was the Declaration of Independence signed?" and Mar was the only one who got it wrong. Everyone was looking at her like, "Are you kidding me?" and I had to explain that she was Scottish so it's okay.
Mar also seem fascinated by the fact that I was able to drive.
So much, in fact, that she enjoyed just having me drive her around places, often without any particular heading.
Another thing we actually both ended up doing a lot of was playing Animal Crossing: City Folk, which I bought while she was here, on the Wii. We both were impatient to get money from that game, so what we ended up doing was planting cherries (that sell for 500 bells each) EVERYWHERE in the city and as short a distance apart from each other as possible until the entire north end of the town was pretty much filled with cherry trees. I don't think we can look at another cherry again. :< We (well, mostly her) also ended up playing Lips on the Xbox quite a bit. It's like a karaoke game but mostly with girly songs, unfortunately.
I did, however, get the top rating on the Radiohead song that was on there (Fake Plastic Trees).
Another point of interest: Mar
loves animals. I happen to have two Border Collies, and she went crazy over both of them. She says they're the most beautiful dogs she's ever seen, and from the way she interacted with them, I believe it. They both liked her too since they kept fighting for her attention all the time.
Oh, and Mar got her hair trimmed and colored while she was over here. She got red (not
bright red, like more natural red) highlights, and they look REALLY cool and sexy in her hair.
Once she puts some pictures up, you should be able to see it.
Anyways, once it was two days before Mar's flight back home, we drove on up to Dallas to stay at my brother's house before her flight. My brother and his wife have a ten-week-old baby, and she absolutely loved Marilyn and kept smiling and looking at her.
We spent our last night in Dallas watching
The Yes Man in theaters (which was HILARIOUS, by the way) and having a yummy, Texas barbecue dinner at my brother's house. The next morning, I drove her off to the Dallas airport, got her all checked in, and waited with her for about 20 minutes in the check-in area to say our last goodbyes. When she finally had to leave, we both felt really sad and missed each other so much even though only a short amount of time had passed, but knowing we would be able to see each other again fairly soon kept us going. I love that girl, and we had an absolutely amazing time together, both in Texas and Scotland. My beautiful angel means the world to me, and no one can ever take that away from us,
ever.
InvaderMar will also likely be making a journal giving her take on the trip soon so look out for that!
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