Saturday, February 2, 2008

More London.....

For now i will continue where i left off being in London:
I cant believe that i havent writtten anything down since i got here! gahhh i just know im going to have forgotten A LOT and i will leave some stuff out. oh crap. ok here goes: at least what i can remember:
On thursday i played with SOFIA! i was so happy. but that wasnt until later. she facebooked me and told me she would skip french so i gave her my hotel phone number and she called me and it was funny. i went around to touristy places with nicole and ashley in the morning. we shopped on oxford street at this store called Top Shop which was really cool but very expenseive and they played Kate Nash 'i just want you kiss boy' and that made me sooooooo happy. and then in the store i saw a shirt EXACTLY like that weird frilly one i got in Park City that i never ever wear and that was funny. the dresses in that store were beautiful but everything iwanted was like 58 pounds and then double itif youwant to know the price in dollars! no good. we also went to Clarks, the shoes store. and then into this mall looking for a clarks where this guy exfoliated my hands with salt from the dead sea.
We took the tube to buckingham Palace and in the park we saw a buisnessman with one green sock and one red one and his pants were riding up so we could see them and i was soooo awkward and embarassed for him beause it made me think he must do is own laundry and live alone and have no one to love and it was just way to personal of an insight. at the palace gate we asked a guard what the queen;s last name was BC we had forgotten and he told us it was windsor. DUHH totally knew that. i swear. there was a street called birdcage street, ew,
Next we went down the street to look at Big Ben and westminister abbey and st margarets church [which is mom's favorite] we went inside of st margarets and it was very pretty. i finally met up with sofia and was really happy and she brought her house-mate jesse and he was nice. we talked and walked and metro-ed which was good beause i had a day-pass and got more than my money's worth out of it. we went to the tower of london [closed] and tower bridge and i was just happy to be with sofia because i love her. eventually we began to walk over to the globe theatre and it was so weird becuse we literally ran into the other group of girls from the SA who had come early and were staying in london. wierdddddddddd.
there were lots of street musicians.they were also all in the underground. i wish there wasnt a law against that in DC because its so beautiful to listen to.
e noticed that th 'in-style' for buildings in london is for them to be entirely see-through and let me tell you that was weird because we could see everything tht was going on inside of them all the time. at one point i was staring in at these people working [it was dark out] and this girl was trying to fi her desk drawer b/c she had pulled it out and there were two guys in their cublicles and they saw me looking at them somehow and they waved and danced and it was odd. the buildings were boxy.
since i was too busy to eat lunch we split up so it was just me and sofia and jesse and we went and got dinner and it was yummy pasta with pesto. and we saw this pirate shiip replica floating in the water and it said that you could have sleepovers on it!!!! so cool.
we also went to platform 9 3/4 [that was my idea] but it didnt work when i tried to go through the wall.... we ate some chocolate and then went to some plazza and sat on a giant statue and watched some young teenagers being stupid and drunk and it was funny because the police gaurds were wearing vests that said Heritage Warden on them. we could see a rotating tower that said collusium but it looked like it said 'cold' to me but thats because it was cold outside.
we just walked around a lot more and got smoothies and watched people argueing and rode the tube.

The next morning i was eating eggs on toast and i looked up and saw this man who had been looking over at me and HE LOOKED LIKE AARON ECKLES [hes a murderer from the tv show Veronica Mars] ahhhhhh how creepy is that?!
when i checked out i was charged 88 pence for phone calls and then i just went on over to the chunnel and waited for the other girls to show up so we could go over to France.

I finally found them [and really if i hadnt it ave found them it wouldnt have been a big deal because i couldve totally handled it all myself. i was feeling very free and independant by this point] I got myself a humus and veggie sandwhich from Marks and Spencers adn it was delicious. You know what? i was really really lucky that i never fell over backwards from the wieght of my bags and hurt myself.....

okay so we got onto the euro-star [itink thats what its called] and my seat was next to this cute little french boy and his mom and we got the middle seats with a table inbetween [only ONE per car!] which was very exciting. i spent the whole trip looking out the window [except when we went down-under- in which case i watched him play soccer on his gameboything] i saw that horse that is carved into the hillside [the Uffington Horse] and tried to point it out to him but i totally forgot that he didnt speak english and i think he just thought i was really weird and a bit crazy b/c i was so excited about something out the window and he didnt see it..... but its whateve.

i got off the train and was..... IN FRANCE. FINALLY

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