Saturday, March 12, 2011

LONDON!!

Hopefully I'm going to get this thing updated tonight! I've been pretty busy, traveling like EVERY weekend and then my bf came and then my family came.. so sorry not sorry because I was having so much fun with everyone!!

Anyways. London happened Feb. 18-20 and it was a good time! The weather sucked, but it was February in London. What can I really expect, right?  I really enjoyed it except I don't think I got to see all of it, since we were there for so short a time.

So. Day 1: we had a few drinks the night before, so we were moving pretty slow! Basically we did a lot of eating. First stop:


is anyone REALLY surprised by this? 


Sad thing: it was a HUGE disappointment. The flavors were the same(ish) but the rice wasn't cooked and it just was not that good. Sigh. Miss you, Chipotle. 

Then we ate at the ORIGINAL Hard Rock Cafe! So that was cool. 

And we went to a play:


hilarious!


Day 2: We took those bus tours and did the super tourist thing. Pretty fun way to see the city but again, it was rainy and gross and cold, so the top deck was NOT that fun. Here's a few highlights:


Kensington Palace.. where Princess Diana lived


Liester Square


Westminster Abbey 


againnn


parliament


Big Ben!
did anyone else know that big ben is actually the bell in the tower? not the actual tower? I didn't.


St. Paul's Cathedral


My only complaint was that at a lot of these places, the admission was SO expensive. St. Paul's was like.. 14 pounds. After the student discount.. which usually gets us in for free places all over Europe. So we didn't actually go in a lot of places. 

Day 3 (our last day!) we went to the Tower of London...


outside


inside


Also the CROWN JEWELS were there which rocked. No pictures allowed though. Lame.


Tower Bridge


Buckingham Palace


cool gates that go with it!


So overall London was a great time, minus the weather. Shopping was pretty good too and I would maybe want to go back? Possibly in April. We'll see!

xoxo,
-A

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