A few days in review...Oh, London.

Some lady just left the lounge room commenting on how she can "tell" that we're "a theatre group," after listening to everyone being so loud and crazy for a while. Ha.

Alright, so what have I been up to? Well, let's start off by saying that it's nearly 10pm, London time. Making it 5pm EST.

Saturday, January 3, 2009
We went to Southwark Cathedral. We got to pray for a few minutes and then learned all about the cathedral's history. Apparently a few cool people were buried there, including Shakespeare's brother and some bishop from the 17th century who translated the bible. Cool.

Then we went to The Globe and got a fantastic tour of the premises. It's obviously not the original Globe theatre, but it's an incredibly authetic life size replica of it, a few hundred yards away from the original location. It was absolutely amazing. The tour guide was quite amusing as well. You have to love a good tour guide...

Sunday, January 4, 2009
Sundayyy, Erin and I woke up wicked late and got ready. We went off to God knows where to see Into the Woods at this cute, intimate little theatre in the outskirts of London. We were in a smaller residential area, so it was really cute to see that sort of place rather than all the hustle and bustle of the inner city.

The show was wonderful! I might be biased because it's my favorite show of all time, but still...very good. Lots of good singing, cross-dressing (gotta love how the stepmothers and stepsisters are crossdressing men in all the shows), and the characters were part of the pit by playing instruments into t he show. It was pretty cool. I loved it.

Afterwards, Erin and I grabbed dinner at the pub downstairs from the theatre. We ate some sammiches mmm. We saw the cast of the show milling about the pub and that was really cool. I thought the baker's wife was the prettiest girl in the world. I was jealous.

Erin and I attempted to get home and it took about two hours hahaha. We had to take a bus somewhere and all these trains...it was crazy. Then I spent hours on the phone with Brian when I got home. It was great. A nice relaxing evening.

Today, Monday January 5, 2009
We got up and looked outside to see wetness and snow. So gross, but it was the first sign of precipitation since arriving in London, so that made it somewhat exciting. The weather quickly turned to crisp, but dry. We had class from 9:30am until 11am, but Sabine was late because her wake up call never came, so class didn't start til nearly 10am. We were all quite fine with that.

After class we had some break time. I watched some weird morning British show for a while. At noon we all went over to a genuine Spanish food restaurant. It was rather disturbing. The food just wasn't for me. I had some salad, bread, a bit of chicken, and a meat ball. Hahaha. There was other stuff, including rice and kalimari, but I just wasn't all that hungry or interested.

After lunch we went to the UK version of CVS, Boots. I got some more shampoo, conditioner, and bar soap, cause my body is demanding when it comes to keeping it hygienic. After that we stopped by our rooms at the hotel before journeying out. As we were abotu to leave, Erin and I heard a deafening beeping and buzzing noise. My RA instincts kicked in and I knew it was a fire alarm, so we dashed out. Everyone stood outside for a while and the lady who works there came and told us the "fire brigade" was on their way bahahaha. I think that's just fabulous...the "fire brigade..." What wasn't fabulous was having my passport and important documents waiting to be burnt to a crisp inside my drawer int he room. Fortunately the alarm was a false one, but we still got to take great pics wtih the cute men of the London "fire brigade."

We set off and went to Abbey Road first. We nearly got run over about a million times trying to take the famous Beatles album pic. Unfortunately we didn't get any especially wonderful and authentic shots seeing as the stupid traffic was busting down the street like whoa. It was fun though.

After that we went to the London Science Museum, which was fun. We only saw two floors out of 5, but I was very happy as the two floors we did see were about medical history, which I find absolutely fascinating. It was the best exhibit I've seen in a museum in a long while.

The pics will be on facebook soon...there are so many...

And so after THAT we went off to Harrods. OH.MY.GOD. It was like a fairy wonderland. If I'm ever rich I'm going there to stock up on chocolates and EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD. It was the most breathtaking experience so far on this trip. Jenni kept yelling at me to shut my mouth cause my mouth was gaping in amazement ahahah. Too funny.

Anyway, everyone left and I wanted to wander around more before so Erin, Rosanna, and Katie stayed with me. We went to The Feathers (our favorite pub hangout) on the way back for dinner (which consisted of a Fosters on tap and a plate of chips [french fries] for me).

It was a really great day. Tomorrow is The Tower of London, which is the most haunted place in the UK. Apparently Anne Boleyn haunts that place all the time. And so many others. It should be wonderful.


And now it's 11:50pm London time, nearly 7pm EST.
Time for bed. Or...uploading more facebook pics...

'night!