Not much to report from last week, loads of work and school, but Callie and I did manage to squeeze in the London Eye which is always a fun thing to do! The Eye is like a giant ferris wheel where you can see the whole city of London and it over looks Parlimena and Westminster amound other things, we could also see where we lived from the top which was cool!
(Callie and I after the Eye)
But the weekend, we had some long-over due time in London for a change, which we took full advantage of. We got up bright and early on Saturday and headed for the undiscovered market of Notting Hill called the Portobello Market, it was full of antiques but even more full of people, almost overwhelmingly so. But I managed to snag a wonderful picture of some houses near were our school is located and Callie found a gorgeous Victorian ring! On our way out we saw a street band which wasn't that good but had a huge crowd around it, this was why...
This guy had his dog sitting on his shoulder and every now and again he would give him a little snack, this is my kind of guy!
After that we headed back to the Borough Market because once is never enough. This time I got a kangaroo burger, yes you heard right! It was awesome, washed that down with some beautiful homemade sangria and then we headed for Green Park, Buckingham Palace and St. James Park, all of which were awesome!
(Looking down away from Buckingham Palace with flag lining the streets, it was just the Queens offical birthday celebration last weekend so I think that might be why they were up and the streets were still closed)
We took a stroll through up to Trafalgar Square to Piccadilly Circus then up Regents St to Oxford St all of which have some great shopping but we mainly window shopped.
We came home had a breather and then headed out to see a movie, the hangover and it was hilarious!
Then Sunday we over slept a tad, till around 1130, then got up got ready and headed to the tower of London which was so much fun, we took the free one hour tour and it was totally worth it our tour guide was hilarious and had some really cool facts too.
(Our tour guy, one of 37 Yeoman Warders, or people who gaurd the tower and also get to live there)
After that we headed to St Paul's church were Diana and Charles were married. When we got there it was time for a service and they had the choir singing, it was so amazing to be in that church hearing those people sing, just amazing!
(Front of St. Paul's)
This week work and school have been work and school like. But my boss being the special man that he is has continued to get more and more causal as the weeks have progressed, just the other day he wore sandals (which I mean is fine it is his house) but this joker has some of the nastiest feet I've ever seen, needless to say I didn't eat my lunch that day... He also has the habit of smelling like stale BO which is always appealing, but to somewhat make up for this his grandmother lives next door and every couple of days she comes over with some homemade cake for us so that always takes my mind off the nastiness of the work environment.
Today me and Callie met in Leicester Square to get some discounted theater tickets and some dinner at Wagamamas, which is a great noodle chain here. We got tickets to Jersey Boys which was so entertaining, but I not sure it was more entertaining watching the actors or the audience all of whom where at least 20 years older than Callie and I. Nonetheless it was a great time.
Tomorrow we are going to try to go to Westminster and Parliament, that should be fun! Especially since I love all that early modern English history.
Promise to write more!
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