LONDON!

This weekend I went to LONDON with my friend Lauren.  We had a great time!  The first day, after a slight mix up in our hostel, we basically explored London by foot, the best way.  We didnt yet want to buy an Underground pass or anything so we walked all day.  We went to Hyde Park, Notting Hill, and a bunch of different places.  We ate traditional English food for lunch that day-Fish and Chips! Chips being fries.  The menu had all stuff like cottage pie and shepherds pie--sausage sandwiches and peas!  Peas! Peas with everything!  We saw the Big Ben clock tower, and the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace (the queen WAS there!), but there were soo many people there that we almost got pushed!  I had to throw a few people off me with my elbows :) It was wild but very cool.  Very traditional.  I loved about London that they had everything--mostly in terms of food, Thai food, Indian food, American food, English food, Chinese food, natural food, organic food, juices, smoothies, salads, everything!  It was great!

The second day we conquered the Underground and went to the British Museum where we saw the Rosetta Stone and soooo many other neat things and went to Soho and Covent Gardens, two really cool zones of the city.  We walked all around Picadilly Circus and looked for cheap tickets to see either Lion King or Wicked the following day or that night, we finally found tickets for a mere 19 pounds!  I hate pounds!  But...we bought them and went to see WICKED the next day in LONDON! How cool!  The show was great, but it was different with British accents. I liked the Fox better, butttt....still, it's London, and we saw a MUSICAL there!

The last day (sat) we did the changing of the guard and we got there at 10am.  It happens at 11:30.  At 11:20 all these people started to push their way through so I had to get a little serious with them.  I told them the truth, that if they had wanted to see and get a good spot, they should have also arrived at 10:00.  I didnt let anyone in, but then this lady come up with her son using him as an excuse to push their way through, the 8 year old kid walked up and climbed the fence so he was standing in front of all of us.  I said something finally and proclaimed how that was not right and that he did not have the right to be there since he had pushed his way through at the last minute.  Despite being pushed by Australians, Germans, Asians, French people, Russians, and even Spaniards, we decided it was time to get out of there..we saw what we needed to see.  I was astounded because the changing of the guard happens EVERY DAY, but there were probably 2000 people there.  It was WILD.  Such a tourist attraction.  

We saw a couple more things then went back to our hostel after eating in Soho at this Chinese buffet which was healthy, don't worry (i'm not kidding!). Then we prepared our journey for the next morning (3:50 am) and our flight took off at 7:15 am this morning.

 We made it home in time to spend the day on the beach--a weekend well spent.  

Today is Mother's Day in Spain, so Feliz Día de Madre to all the MOMS!