Sorry, it has been so long... I actually updated about a week ago, but stupid skype erased my post. I'll try to give you a fast update about my life because it has been so long, and I don't want to bore you with a long post. So, here goes...
Last weekend, as you may very well know, I went to London. It was amazing and hectic all rolled into one. We left Friday morning, and I had all of my things laid out to take a shower and then roll out of Tapton in time to meet the girls for the bus, but I took drowsy cold medicine the night before and totally missed my alarm going off. Luckily Lindsay called me at 7:27 when we were supposed to be meeting at 7:30 and my phone ringer woke me up. I ran to the bus stop- to make a long story short. Once we got to London, we were all totally starving, so we grabbed lunch, then went to get TUBE (Subway) passes. While we were in line, I noticed that there was a Wicked Theater across the street, so I ran over there just to see if there was any possibility of getting tickets over the weekend. They had 1/2 price tickets for that night, so Genna, Chelsea, Mon-Mon, and I all went to see Wicked. It was everything and more. I have wanted to see it for so long, but it's impossible to get tickets in NYC, so I was so happy to have scored tickets. 25 pounds.
On Saturday we did all of the touristy things imaginable. We started first thing in the morning with Piccadilly Circus, then went on to Covent Gardens and Covent Gardens Market. Covent Garden is where all of the movie premiers take place in London, so it was pretty tightttt. Then, we grabbed lunch and proceeded to King's Cross Station where we took many a picture in front of Platform 9 3/4... as per my demanding. Then, we did a super long walking tour of the city of London, which was ridiculous and cool. We saw the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, London Bridge, London Eye, the Globe, Big Ben, and Westminster Abbey... all in a days work. We were friggin pooped afterwards though. Then, we grabbed some good Italian at Spaghetti House and then headed back to our crap hostel. By the way, on Friday night the hostel people moved our stuff into 2 different rooms then the original room we were given because one of their people "made a mistake." So while we were out, they came in and took our stuff. Alex and I were with three randoms and had the worst night of sleep imaginable. They could care less about us though because we're poor college students who were only paying 20 pounds a night to stay there. That was fun. After dinner, we walked to Soho. That was an experience to say the least.
On Sunday we went to Harrod's Department Store, which was FANTASTIC. I would go there again and again if I could. That's where I would take my family if they ever came to visit. It had a chocolate room, dessert room, meat room, etc. on top of all of the other department store-like jazz. We grabbed lunch and then walked to Hyde Park for a picnic. It was delicious and pretty. Then, we walked back to Harrod's and Lindsay and I split a gigantic gelato sundae. Amazing. Best ever. Hands down. After that, walked around some more, and I can't remember specifically what we did, but it was fun. Alex, Lindsay, and I all tried to go see movies later in the evening while Genna did work in the hostel and Chelsea and Mon-Mon went to visit family friends, but that plan failed miserably because all of the movies stop showing at like 8 pm. Pishaw. I fell asleep by like 10:30 p.m. on Sunday night.
Monday morning we all enjoyed a nice breakfast... baguette with jam for me because it is my favorite thing about England. Freaking amazing bread. Then, Lindsay and I decided that we wanted to go to Notting Hill before our bus back to Sheffield. We told Alex, who accompanied us, and Chelsea and Monique decided to take their time at the café. They were the smart ones, but I think our trip was the most interesting. We wound up walking down a street full of ambassador's mansions, so that was neat. We took pictures and the hardcore security guys were glaring at us. Not like we looked like terrorists with our backpacks or anything. Then, we walked on to this road with a ton of shops and I bought 3 super cheap dresses and a top from Urban Outfitters for cheap. Excellent. We walked back through Kensington Gardens where Princess Diana has a memorial. At about 12:30, we headed to the Tube to make our bus that was leaving at 1:30. We missed the bus. Chelsea and Monique were on it. We were freaking out and Monique asked the bus driver if there was a way we could get on the bus later on and he said we had 25 minutes to get to Golder's Green, a bus station 30 minutes away. We told our taxi driver the details and he, being a he-man warrior, got us there just in the nick of time. I could marry him. We got on the bus, and we got home to Sheffield. We were all super happy to be home, surprisingly; we had really missed it.
That's my London trip in a nutshell. I'll put pictures up in the next post.
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