What a long day! We (me and Lindsey) woke up at 9 and headed to Harrods on foot through Hyde Park. I showed her some of the best departments and then we had coffee and scones! Next we tubed it to the outskirts of London to see the Kew Botanical Gardens. Little did we know it cost 20 pounds to get in, and when we can see flowers in the US, we didn’t want to pay that, so we decided to go the national archives instead.
We started walking in what seemed like the right direction for 10 minutes, when we weren’t seeing the road we needed we stopped to ask for directions…we had gone the wrong way! We decided it wasn’t worth it since there was a lot of stuff we wanted to do, so we headed back to the tube and to Portobello market! On the tube ride were 4 kids, say 11 or 12, and they were funny talking in their British accents until they started cussing up a storm. F this and S that! It was appalling! Rea, I will make mom ground you if you use that language before you are 18! Anywho, we walked through the entirety of the market and I somehow refrained from buying anything plaid!
Next we tubed it to Baker Street and went to my Costa (by my, I mean the one I went to every morning before school, it’s a coffee shop). I had secret hopes that Pierre would be there. For those of you who didn’t read my last blog, he was a beautiful French man who worked at the Costa. Sadly, he was not, but I did get the best vanilla latte ever! We meandered to Regents park and sat awhile and then took the same route I walked every morning to BADA. It was amazing. It felt like just yesterday I was walking to school there. I tried to get into the BADA building using the code, but it didn’t work (in fact another program was going on there since BADA runs a program in Oxford over the summer). But I still got a picture! We walked through Camden Town and ate at one of my favorite Italian Restaurants.
Then we started back towards Ben’s Cookies (the best darn cookies in the world) but our bladders struck us so we ended up in a Mcdonald’s bathroom line for 20 minutes. This left us very little time and we finally spotted an Orange (place that sells phones) so we stopped to get ourselves one so Mom would stop pestering me (just kidding, mom!). I had to book it to the theatre, so no cookies for me or time to buy a new shot glass.
I saw Alls Well That Ends Well at the Globe! It was SO good, and I had never seen it or read it before. There were some great monologues in it! My feet are killing me after standing for 3 hours but it was worth it! I learned 3 things from that trip to the globe. 1. Women who are in there 50’s, and are not skinny (okay, they are fat) should not, and I repeat, should not wear spandex as pants! You are bigger than a 6 and wrinkly and your butt sags, please put on some pants! 2. Cough drops/hard candy is the most annoying thing you can possibly eat during a show! If I heard the lady behind me smack, chew, bite, or suck on that cough drop one more time I was gonna turn around and slap it out of her mouth! 3. On the tube ride home there were a lot of girls going out wearing 6 inch heals and dresses that showed their cooters. I really hope the US does not take on this fashion…it’s hideous.
Now I am completely exhausted and we have to be up at 5am to leave for Paris! Ooh, also, Lindsey bought a shot glass for me since she didn’t go to the play :D I was excited cause my other one broke upon moving out. Another wonderful day in London and I really REALLY REALLY don’t wanta leave. It is officially my favorite place in the world. Hopefully I have Internet access in Paris and I will post my phone number here if you feel so inclined to text me!
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