Final Days

Well my friends, today is the final day in London, and may I just say it has been a pleasure writing this blog for your viewing pleasure.
Let me start from where my last post left off...

Wednesday morning, I ventured out to Regents Park, which is a smaller version of Hyde Park/more secret garden-ish. It was well worth it, I got so many great pictures and it was so nice to go and do something on my own in the city. Then I headed to meet my Political Science class at Westminster tube stop, there we all met up and headed over to the houses of Parliament. It was so great, I've been to the House of Commons before, but we also got to go to the House of Lords. Parliament is broken up much like our congress but Commons is elected and Lords is not, and image the capital being an 18th century palace. After our time there, our professor took us to a pub on a boat, which might sound cool, but after about 20 minutes I was feeling sea sick for sure.
Thursday was my last day of work, which was not so bad, it was sad but I was ready to be out of that place! I got my recommendation from my boss and hit the road. That night a bunch of people from our program all went to dinner, it was fun to hang out with all of them one last time in a big group. Unfortunately I had to come back to our house right after that because I still had to finish my final paper for my class, which I'm happy to report is handed in!
Today Callie and I woke up early to hit the stores one last time, which was a good idea because they were not crowded at all! Then we walked back to our house because it was entirely too hot to get on the tube. We had booked an nail appointment earlier in the week at a place right across from our house and so we rushed to that, and made it just in time. Then we dropped our purchases off and headed to borough market one last time with our flatmates. Let me just say borough market never disappoints. I had a seafood paelle curry like dish, it was wonderful! Callie had a veggie burger, which personally I feel was a little bit of a cop-out for the last time at borough but thats just me. We grabbed some sangria and hit our favorite dinning spot. After that we ran to CAPA to hand in papers and print boarding passes and what not. Then we strolled over to Harrods and browsed the mid-season sale they were having. After that CAPA was throwing us a farewell tea and so we jaunted over to that and had a great time talking and laughing with our flatmates and some other friends.
Now we are back for final packing, showering, preparing for tomorrow and we have a taxi that is coming to get us tomorrow at 430 in the morning which will come far to soon I am sure!
It's so crazy that these six weeks are already over! I had so much fun writing this blog and I hope you enjoied reading it as well! Can't wait to see all over you in the land of the free and home of the brave. Happy fourth of july!
Hotty Toddy from London one last time. Cheers!

Last weekend

This past weekend, was our last in London! How the time flies! Saturday we had a day trip to Wales booked, it was cool but it took a really long time to get there. Once we did get there we walked around Cardiff which is the main city, then we headed out to Caerphilly Castle, it was really old and pretty neat, I would show you pictures but my camera was dead!
Sunday we got up and went to the Smithfield market, which was awesome, I got a new scarf and we walked around and enjoyed all of the booths, most of which were clothing or accessories, but some had pictures, food and other odds and ends. Then we headed to Notting Hill for our 2 our walking tour, it was cool, I'm pretty sure our guide was hung over which was interesting but informative nonetheless. We got to see the bookstore from the movie Notting Hill as well as the blue door, that is actually no longer blue (they sold the door in an auction). We also got to the house where Keria Knightly's character lived in love actually! Those are just some of the cool things we got to see. Then after Notting Hill we walked slowly to the tube, and stopped in some stores, I found a second hand book store and picked up some books for super cheap!
Monday I had class all day, which is such a downer especially because it has been so nice in London. There has been a heatwave warning, with temperatures reaching 33! Which is like 85, it's hilarious to hear Londoners complain about the heat, because we are totally used to it getting that hot!
Yesterday was my second to last day of work, the end of Thursday can't come soon enough (thats my last day)
I'm not sure what the plan is for today and the rest of the week, but I might try to venture to Regent's Park since I haven't made it out there yet!

America bound in 3 days!