3 Bags versus 4 months of stuff

In just days I will board a plane, take off, and be flying to London. However unreal that all seems, the packing has taken over my life. I don't understand how to pack up four months of life into just three bags. THREE BAGS???!!!! How do I do that? This is why I hate the airlines. There is no way it's possible for someone to study abroad with just three bags. However, I guess people have because so many people tell me they have.

My brand new back pack is on the verge of exploding because I want to take all this art supplies and coloring utensils, and then I have to take school supplies I guess since I'll be at school. I mean I'll have to learn something in the torture that is traveling to London to see plays; including one of my favorite stories: Matilda.

My carry on bag, the fifth one I tried, is has finally decided it can hold anymore. What little it holds is hopefully enough to take some of the weight off of my checked bag. Which is literally filled to the brim. I couldn't but a feather in that thing without it tipping the scale to YOU'VE PACKED TOO MUCH. I may need to learn a lesson in the art of packing less but I remain a firm believer in the need for clothes because of the "what if" clause. What if I need to go to an extremely fancy restaurant? What if I NEED these shoes to match this outfit? Yeah I should probably take out anything that requires special outfits; however, I don't care. I want to take all of my stuff but I can't so I'll just cry about it.

Now that the melodrama of packing has subsided some what, I am planning my first weekend in London. Finding places that are fun, free, and me proof is actually really easy. I'm excited to visit a place called Cookies and Scream that serves completely gluten and dairy free foods. That sounds like perfection. It will make me want to move to London even more because they have donuts, but I'm so excited to have so many gluten and dairy free options. Also I am fan-girling over art that I will get to see at the National Gallery. Seriously though who wouldn't be if they got to see Van Gogh, Renoir, and da Vinci all in the same place and feel the paintings come alive?! As an art major it's extremely exciting, that may be because I've witnessed some of the landscapes architecture they painted, but I've also studied them as well. I can't wait to see Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, and the Underground. There's just so much to London, thank goodness it's so close that we visit at least once a month!!!!

Off to planning those awful trips to London for class, how ever will I survive such torture?! Hahaha, I'm sure I'll manage somehow.


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