Well, if I thought getting lost in Kingston was bad yesterday, it was nothing to my forays in London today.
But from the beginning...
Woke up around 10.15 (after being up until 3.30 readiing "The Help" and then couldn't fall asleep until about 4.30). Took a shower and had my breakfast (tea and toast with Marmite again) and got ready to go out. Went to the Kingston train station where I got a day pass and jumped on a trainn around 12.30 for Waterloo station in London. It was a rather non exciting half hour journey, with lots of frustrating solitaire :)
Got to Waterloo and walked along South Bay Rd. (along the river) to get to the Tate Museum (modern art). It was a GORGEOS walk...the sun has finally come out in London and here was a festival going on so there were tons of families and cool artsy things to look at along the way. A note on the food: in general, British food has always been very heavy and not neccessarily healty (or my favorite at all to be honest). However, on this trip I've found that the London dining scene has drastically changed...there is much more fresh vegetables and the food has been incredible!
Anyways, walked through the Tate, then crossed the Millenium bridge in a desperate atempt to find WiFI to video-chat with my lovely parental units :) Finally found some at Pret Manger (WHICH IS EVERYWHERE IN LONDON. Along with Starbucks and Costa) that lasted a grand total before cutting out. So I spent the rest of the day wandering around London (I still have no idea where I was to be honest...neither did Renee at first, she had to look up the cross streets I texted her). Eventually, I managed to find my way back and met Renee and Mike for dinner in Picadilly Square (actually we ate along the River). We went to the pub first and then onto Wagamamas, where Renee and Mike had taken the Linssen clan on our visit almost 5 years ago. It was delicious as always :) All in all, quite a fun day. Mike, Renee and I are going to see Legally Blonde tomorrow night (their treat...so nice!) so that should be exciting! Not entirely sure yet what I'll do with my Friday but we shall see!
XOXOXOXO
Sara
PS. Below, a few pictures from my day :) Views of London from the rooftop Cafe at Tate, the art and crowd along the River for the Festival
yay for veggies! and more wandering! my bestie lent me the help but i haven't started it yet- hope it lives up to the hype! and wait, legally blonde? didn't that come out like 10 years ago? lol!
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