Ok, so I got a little lazy with this whole blog thing...I'm putting all my communication efforts into another venue, and if you know me at all, you know I don't have a lot of extra "I need to be a good correspondent" in me. So lots has happened between today and the 13th of September, I believe that was my last blog, so I'm just going to give you a few highlights. The 18th-19th we went back to London and stayed at a hostel. The day included: Primark (a giant mess of a department store, but it's SO cheap!!), a sweet shoe window display,
a nap at our hostel, dinner at Med Cafe (over priced, and the waiter seriously wouldn't bring us our check. The guy next to us was in and out before we'd even paid. He kept trying to get us to buy drinks...we had to ask the manager for our bill. And he wasn't even hot.), drinks at The Sports Cafe...where they DIDN'T show the Husker game, and I was bummed. But we met some really nice English guys, so it was a good night. One of them kept doing the "moon walk"...but it was really him walking backwards. Hillary wanted a video, but he'd only do it again if someone else did...and guess who was that lucky person! See photo below for a view of my awful moon walk attempt.
Then Sunday we got up WAY too early for Speakers Corner, so we film a music video in Hyde Park (it's on facebook if you want to see it.) The picture is us in Hyde Park.
Speakers corner was fun, but there were only 2 speakers, and not very many hecklers, which is the best part. But we still enjoyed it. Then we went to Wagamama's for lunch...and decided to go home early cuz it was kinda rainy and we were tired.
The next weekend, we went BACK to London on Sunday, to see the Great Gorilla Run and Henry IV part II. Unfortunately, the trains were under construction, so we got to the race right as it was ending. But we still got to see people in their costumes, and we did see one woman cross the finish line!
Then we walked down to The Tower of London and cross The Tower Bridge-which I hadn't walked across last time, so that was cool.
Then we found a little festival thing, and got some free beer samples, and I completed a puzzle and got a free 1/2 pint! It wasn't that good, so we used the beer to make a photo album, with our beers "posing as a couple" in front of touristy things.
We also found some giant balls that we climbed...boy we do the most random things! After a trip to Sansbury's for some cheap wine, we finally made it to Henry IV Part II at the Globe...sadly, it wasn't nearly as good as Part I...it didn't make sense and my love (sorry Paul) only had like 30 minutes of stage time during the 3 hour play. Not cool Shakespeare, not cool
So they write this on the street to help tourists know which way to look because they drive on the wrong side of the road...this isn't gonna be too helpful.
After Henry IV, we tried to catch an "early train" home but missed it by 15 minutes, so we had to wait 45 minutes for the next one. But the real bad news was that because of the construction, we weren't going to get home until about 1:30 AM, and we had to be at work at 8 the next morning. The taxi company had said to call before 11 to book a taxi, so we tried calling from the train, but no one answered. The only thing we could think of to get from the train station to base was to use an illegal taxi, which we'd accidentally taken on our way home from London the first time. But who knew, even the illegal taxis aren't out at 1:30 on a Monday morning. So there we are, standing at a train station with is deserted, with the exception of a few construction workers on the tracks, and the bus driver and lady who was helping people figure out where to do because of the construction who is talking to the bus driver. Here were our options: sleep at the station (outside, in the cold), call a lady I work with and wake her up, walk (but we didn't really know how to get back, and it is over 6 miles), or go ask the bus driver and lady for help. We decided to try the last one first, and bless their hearts, they figured out where Croughton was and the lady drove us there herself! She was just getting off work, and still had to drive an hour back to London, but she was kind enough to take us home first. And when we tried to pay her, she said the only thing she needed was knowing we got home safely. Talk about angles among us!!!
And that is all I shall write for today. Stay tuned, because tomorrow you're going to get to see what happens in between all these fun trips!
