What a first day. Yesterday was ridiculously busy. I had a terrible sleep -- woke up at 3 am, and was wide awake. Gotta love jet lag. So I didn't actually wake up until around 11. Lou had a busy day (and week for that matter) planned so we just went at it. Started off by having my first tube experience, which was awesome. It's wicked that I have Lou here to help me because she gives me little insider information in terms of how not to look like a tourist. And then you witness people doing exactly what she says not to do and then laugh. Haha. Oh, and pronunciation; she's good for that too (example: Leicester Square, pronounced Lester Square). Juicy little tidbits.
So we took the tube down to Waterloo, in Central London to start off the day with a flight up the Eye. I mock the use of the word flight because it's a ferris wheel, but Lou informed me that it's sponsored by British Airways. It was awesome! The views from the top were phenomenal and it just kind of makes you realize how small a place like Saskatoon is. London goes on for ages and you literally can't see an edge to the city. And not only that, it's extremely compressed. You'd be surprised they have room for roads. Then we went to the London Aquarium which was awesome! Saw loads of fish, sharks, these weird eels and things called razor fish. All very very cool. We lunched at a place called Prezzo and had awesome Italian food. We then went to House of Fraser to do a bit of shopping. Finished the day out with a hot chocolate from Costa (Jen and Melissa; it was just as good as you described!).
After that we just came home and sat around for a bit before heading out to the pub. Lou, her flatmate Katie and I all just went to a pub around the corner called The Manor and had some awesome food and drinks. We had a little too many and stumbled the way home. That brings us to today, it's about dinner time and we haven't even left yet. Well, we left, but only briefly to get McDonald's. Hangovers are the same over here as they were back home. Shocking.
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