Rainy London Town

As of yet, we've been in London for three days... As I don't actually have that much time on my internet and also I'm hungry, I'm gonna try and make this quick!



Day 1:
We arrived in London in the morning, met with Beth Lewis, Heather's friend who formerly lived in BC and went SHOPPING!!!!!! (but no parking :(...) For those of you that have never been to the Topshop flagship store- I recommend going in with a full nights sleep. Not semi hung over on cold medicine/gravol and extremely jetlagged. Because you just get WHELMED(not under or over, just WHELMED). There are something like 6 levels of clothing? We only went on four and it still took us HOURS to get through that many pieces of clothing. We also walked up and down Oxford Street, which as some of you might now, hold alot of other bigass stores. After attempting 4 times to get Heather a cellphone, we succeeded and decided to celebrate with food. Specifically BUTTAH CHICKEN (yes, this is how we pronounced it). And also- I don't know if you guys have ever had Indian food, but I highly recommend papdoms (sp?) they are UNREAL. I had never heard of them but they're like thin fried rice cakey things that you dip in sauce. To quote Heather "THOOOOO GOOOD".
After that, we walked through Covent Gardens (thats where the resturant was) then through China Town. Much to Heather's surprise there was no garden in the area. God bless the girl- at least she's pretty :)
We finished off the night by walking through Picadilly Circus, which is like a small Times Square- big televions, lots of people, several strip clubs, GOOD TIMES. We then finished the night by crashing into our beds.

Day 2:
First things first, we switched hostels cause I'm an idiot and didn't book early enough to get us all four nights in the same place. oops. We then split up from Beth- she went shopping, and Heather and I went touring. We started with a little brekkie at Victoria station and then started walking.

We hit Westminister Abbey, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, St. James Park, the Parliament Building, London Eye and pretty much any other landmark in that area. After that, we headed to a French cafe in Chinatown (in London...) and had some bread dip stuff. The waitress apparently didn't speak either French or English- "hors d'oevres? appetizers? SNACKIES?????" so that was interesting. Our first language barrier.
I had also forgotten how big palaces are- actual conversation:
Heather: Holy CRAP that palace is HUGE!!!
Niki: Um.... yeahhh... Haven't you ever seen a palace before?
Heather: ...No...
Niki: ...OH...

As you can tell, our conversations are absolutely SCINTILLATING intellectually.

We then went back to the hostel and passed out in weird positions, fully dressed with half of our shoes off. It was beautiful.

Day 3:
We got up somewhat early today (Why, THANKS, roomate who let her cellphone ring for twenty minutes while she was in the shower with the main room lights on)and decided to do a bit more touring. This hostel has free breakfast, so that was pretty awesome. First thing we hit was London Bridge, which is like London Dungeon but apparently scarier? I dunno, I didn't actually find it all that scary and I don't have a second opinion cause Heather wouldn't even enter the doors... AHEM.

I hear she had a lovely time visiting a nearby cathedral though.
Anyways, after that we walked along to London Bridge, which is NOT falling down, thank you very much, and then continued on to the Globe Theatre. Which for all of you people raised outside of human civilization, is where Shakespeare wrote and performed (Yes, he was an actor to- Frommer's fun fact of the day). We bought tickets for Macbeth, and then killed some time while we waited for the show to start by eating fish and chips by the Thames. (pronounced "tEMs".... I got alot of weird looks by pronouncing it "tAYmes"... I also was apparently not speaking English when I pronounced tomatoes regularly instead of tom-AH-toes... I must now search for someone who says po-TAT-oes and my experience will be complete).
Another history lesson for you good folks out there: back in the day, the peasants stood in front of the stage where the plays were performed. In this historical mindset, Heather and I decided to do the same. Also the seats were cheap. It seemed like a wonderful idea while it was sunny and warm out, but turned into a terrible one when the weather started to mirror the play's drama:
-MacBeth considers murder (so foul!) >> thunder starts to rumble
-MacBeth starts killing everyone >> it starts to rain
-MacBeth dies, a whole bunch of other guys start yelling "HAIL [insert Scottish person]", "HAIL [insert Scottish area]" >> it starts hailing

At the end they did a dance.... PRETTY SURE it was a rain dance. I blame the jigging witches. Heather and I tried our best to escape the rain, but as the Underground is shut down due to bank holidays, we had to wait for a bus. FUN.

Anyways, thats a quick summary, I'm gonna sign off now so I can go EAT. WHOOO! and possibly go bowling? Pictures will follow whenever I feel like it.

Love you, See you guys LATAH.