london calling...

London!

Up at the crack of dawn we walked to the bus stop, caught the bus to the airport. As we stood waiting for flight to board I went into a bookstore thinking about buying a magazine when I saw 'The Alchemist' on the 'Staff Picks' shelf so I decided it was a sign... since Blakey loves that book... so I bought it. Our flight got into London right around 11... we took the Tube into the city, got settled in our hostel and I took off on my own. I took a walking tour based on the DaVinci Code, which was really interesting. Mainly just because I got see old churches and parts of the city that I hadn't seen before.
I headed back to the hostel around 4pm, wandered around Bloomsbury(where my hostel was) for a bit then met up with everyone else for dinner.
We got to the restaurant and while we were waiting for our table a couple of the lads and I went into Oxfam (Salvation Army type) and I found... wait for it... pink Converse for 3 pounds... in my size. I about lost my mind and naturally I purchased them.
We ate at a FANTASTIC Indian restaurant... I ate so much food it was crazy. We then went to see 'Warhorse'.

O.M.G.

Phenomenal. I can't even... so good. The puppeteers who worked the horses were so incredible... I kept forgetting that the horses were, in fact, not real horses.

After that, we walked back to the hostel... I hit the hay early.

The next morning, after a hearty hostel breakfast of cereal and uncooked bread ( toast), I gave Lauren a tour of the city (since it was her first time there). It was loads of fun. We grabbed a light lunch and headed to the Globe for our group tour. After that Lauren and I walked over Tower Bridge, contemplated going to The Tower of London, decided against it and wandered and saw some more sights instead. That night we went and saw 'Endgame'. I was so tired I almost fell asleep, though I was actually enjoying myself. After the show, I hit the hay early again.
I awoke early again and Lauren and I head to the British Museum. We attempted to form a strategy so that we could see everything... but our strategy crashed and burned and, instead, we walked through the whole place playing a game of "When I take over the world I get that".

We then saw a matinee of "If there is, I haven't found it yet." which is a new play. I actually enjoyed it for the most part and bought the script. Amanda, Erika, Lauren and I then rushed to King's Cross Station, found Platform 9 3/4, did what we went to do, then headed to the next theatre for the next show. We ate a quick dinner then saw "Many Roads to Paradise" which was bad. Just bad.
Went back to the hostel, I decided to NOT be lame and went out to the Pub with the lads. Then Amanda, Erika and I met up with a friend of theirs. We went to Tesco and bought a chocolate cake for a pound. We ate the whole thing... with our hands... it was epic.

Sunday, I went to Camden Market with Lauren and then walked through Hyde Park and Kennsington Gardens. We found the Peter Pan statue and sat for about an hour and a half. Then I met up with Claire, Audrey and Nicole and we had a lovely reunion on the grass. It was wonderful. :) Amanda and Erika brought my backpack to the park and we rushed to the train station to catch the train to the airport for our flight. We got lost and Amanda and Erika's friend Nikko and I sang 'Oliver' while wandering through London. A-MAZING.

Found the train, caught the plane... back in Dublin, did lots of nothin'.

There. I updated. Tedious recap of my trip... I hope you enjoyed it.