Brighton Beach

Sorry I don't blog as much lately. I'm getting lazy, but I continue since this has become my primary contact with family and friends in the U.S. and abroad. I promise to be better.

So this entry is about this past weekend when I went on a trip to Brighton, a city on the southern coast of England. My friend Magda's sister, Agnes, and her friend, Zosia, are in town from Poland checking out colleges. So we took them with us. Brighton is 2 hours from London by bus. We did sudoku the whole way there.


SUDOKU MASTERS! The theme of our trip became "sudoku." So I'm a long-time sudoku addict and I've gotten Magda addicted. And so we introduced Agnes to it on the bus ride, and she's now OBSESSED. We sat around doing sudoku all over Brighton.


Brighton Pier.


Brighton Ben


It was FREEZING on the pier at first because of wind. The weather was very English that day. It was cold and cloudy, then sunny and bright, then rainy.


Magda's my hero.


But her butt smells!


Magda does photography as a hobby. Here's her with her fancy camera.


The pier had all these rides and stuff. Agnes is tall enough for the rides!


Even Jenpa is! I told Magda about how in Korean, my name becomes "Jen-Ni-Puh" because there's no "F" in the Korean alphabet. So Magda's taken to calling me "Jenpa." Her sister started doing it too. So my Polish name is "Jenpa" now.


Us on the Crazy Mouse or something like that.


This shit was scary.


The whole ride has these crazy edges where you feel like you're falling off and I mean, these roller coasters never seem that safe. It cost a grip though. £4 ($8) a person! England is so expensive!


AHHHHHHH!!!!!!


Agnes and Zosia loungin'


Me on the beach.


The sun came out for a bit so we lounged around on the beach. Thing is, Brighton's a rocky beach, meaning it has little rocks along the coast instead of sand. Freakin' HURTS walking on it since I was wearing sandals and laying on it isn't that great either.


Since there's no sand, I made a rock castle.


And then I got the idea to do a message in a bottle. I wrote a message in English, Korean, Polish (Agnes), and French (Zosia) and then put it in my Evian bottle. Agnes and I went on the coast and tried to throw it into the sea, but the waves kept washing it back at us. After I got drenched by a big wave, we ended up just leaving it on the coast. DAMMIT! I was hoping it would wash up on the French coast and some hot French guy would get it and contact me.


While me and Agnes were busy trying to launch our message in a bottle, Magda was sleeping on the beach scratching her ass.


Seagull meeting.


Me and my bestest Magda.


Sudoku time at Starbucks!


Brighton's a small city, but it has a little cultural sector. This is the Pavillion. It's exterior is in Indian style.


And gorgeous gardens.


Inside the Brighton Museum.


Then we walked around the town of Brighton along all the little streets. There were some great little shops. Magda kept slowing us down though with her photography. She was taking photos of all the houses on this little street.

It was really fun taking a day trip within England. Shelly and I went to Stratford-Upon-Avon while she was here, and this was my second trip outside of London. The small cities are so much nicer because there's more space and fewer queues and it's just more relaxed. Living in a big city like London is really exhausting sometimes, but I absolutely adored Brighton.