'Ello! (awful British accent making way)
After breakfast we headed out for a day paid by Monmouth. We went on a double decker tour of London bus with the head of student services at Regents and his two British sons, Alex and Ben were our chaperone's. We saw EVERYTHING. Big Ben (which was gorgeous), The Parliament (which was even prettier), Buckingham Palace(not that impressive at all ... to anyone ... not even the British), London Bridge (which wasn't what most people think it is), Towers Bridge (which is what people think IS the London Bridge), Wibbly Wobbly Bridge ( I cant remember what the real name was but that's what the British guy called it), the London Eye, tons of statues, speakers corner, and many many others.
On girl let go of her bus ticket and if flew right into central London's busy traffic, which sent another girl darting into the street after it... not realizing that she wasn't going to understand the traffic coming at her and was like a deer in head lights. She got the ticket but after that we got quite a bit of a speech about how a girl from regents got run over a few years ago.
We got off the bus to go on the Thames River Cruise where we saw all kinds of navel ships and more Bridges. The British guy commentating was asking where everyone was from because he wanted to know if everyone could understand what he was saying... when he got to the USA we all cheered (all the other countries quietly raised their hands) and that's when hes like... "Well than I guess I'll have to talk real slow huh mates?" ha ha real funny.
We got off there the boat and took some more pictures where we saw the silver robot guys from the movie Euro trip!!!! they were so cool. they look like statues and they paint your face if u go up and touch them. There were so cool. There were a lot of birds here where everyone discovered I was deathly afraid of them.
We went to get back on the tour bus after that. We got lucky because it just happened to be the only bus running with an open headed top. It was nice out but by dusk it was quite chilly, but I stuck it out unlike some of the other kids.
After that we went out to Wegamamas for dinner on Monmouth.... all of it... anything we wanted. It was such a cool place. It was all Japanese rice and noodle soups with all sorts of meats and flavors and garnishes. I had a chicken rice curry dish and it was to die for. We had this eupybeans or something or other with salt... so good. and other stuff. Frank ordered us a bottle a wine for the table ...just to start. When they went to pour mine i was like ehhh that's enough and the waiter looked confused...everyone else went on to order beer or Saki or something and i leaned over and ordered a soda and he laughed, but I didn't care. Or table has a rose wine, maybe White Shiraz I had a sip... it was not awful but not something I would drink again. Emily told me she had some Japanese juice and poured some in my cup to taste. It was really good, but the waiter later told me that it was plum wine and he told her to trick me into tasting it because he knew I would like it because it was sweet. I didn't have anymore though, because I was the only sober one at this point and we still had to make it home in a mannerly fashion. Half the group went home to get ready for club night but I stayed with Frank and his sons and a few others to have dessert. I figured everyone else spent so much on drinks I was gonna get my money's worth on dessert... and boy did we!!!!Emily and I shared a white chocolate ginger cheesecake and a wasabi chocolate fudge cake... both were to die for. The bill was $1000.00 (500 pounds) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was my favorite part of the day =)
We finally got home to get ready for club night where we were told not to wear jeans or "trainers". So everyone was in heels ...or flats... and boy was I sorry I wore heels. We walked half a mile to take the tube to central London and then walked another mile to the club (remember that the streets of London are cobblestone). We passed a wine and food store so everyone at Monmouth stopped to pick up there OWN bottle of wine (this is after they were already wasted from dinner) There is not open bottle law so I was walking down the street with 20 people drinking out of wine bottles. It was kinda awkward. There were British boys on the train that really fancied American girls and just would not leave us alone. But we managed to get rid of them eventually.
The club is usually $70.00 just to get in but we only paid $10. We stood out there for an hour before our group finally got in. We took the elevator to the eighth floor and were shocked at what we saw... in many aspects. The club was a fairly small room with Fancy sofas and cool lighting. The walls were just class windows and you could see all of London lit up in the night. Drinks were $20 and people really were buying drinks I couldn't believe it??? I mean alcohol just can't be worth that much. In London you will turn into a pumpkin at midnight and by that I mean the tube stops working and you have to find a night bus to get home, and a few of us just didn't want to do that and really had no need to stay any later. So a few of us left and were astonished at how packed this club got as we traveled down the lower levels. The line outside wrapped around the building and it was ten minutes to midnight!
We walked back to the tube and JUST made the last tube home to baker street. It took us a ridiculously long time to get back to the dorm because our feet hurt so badly we could barely walk.
Tomorrow we go to Camden markets. London is a funny place... I am enjoying it thoroughly. My favorite part of the day was probably when these British boys wearing cowboy hats stopped us and asked if we were American and I said yes and then I asked if they were cowboys and they said yes we have our horses tied up just across the way. We came all the way from new york is that where you were from? and I said no there are no cowboys in new york and we are from new jersey and they say NEW JERSEY??? What a wonderful place!!!! lol its much funnier with a harsh British accent.
well I'm going to go to sleep because I had a wonderful crazy day and I definitely need to be ready for more walking again tomorrow... they weren't kidding!!
Love from a far away land,
Jenna
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