London Trip

[maybeebaby518]

so I went to class at 9 only to hear that my class has been moved to 10:30, meaning I couldnt go because I had to catch a bus to the airport to make my flight to London for the weekend. So I didnt go to class, but it doesnt hurt me or anything. So I got a bus pass and then got on the Navette with Mike and Lauren. We got to the airport, got on the plane and headed to London. We got to london and had to wait forever in the custom line (it is true they are horrible with people coming into their country) so then we got train tickets to go into the city. We bought round trip tickets. So then we got on the train, and we stopped and it was a connection to Victoria which is the stop we needed. So Mike and I road the Underground (Tube) for the first time. It cost 4 pounds which is $8. So we get to Victoria station, we get Burger King cause it was "cheep" then we walked out of the station to find a Starbucks and the theater that was preforming WICKED. So Mike was so excited for Starbucks and I was so excited to see if they had tickets for wicked. Well they had tickets for like 55 pounds which is $110. So that was out of the question. So then Mike and I started to find out hotel. We checked in, got a London tour book and went to our room and mapped out the whole trip. Then we went for a walk around the city and then went to a bar and got some drinks. We went to bed only to get up for a long day of siteseeing. We started at Buckingham Palace, we just walked around it, we didnt go inside, not enough time. But we got to see the changing of the guards, which is really nothing speical. Then we made are way to Big Ben, Parliment, London Eye, and then to the Globe Theater, to the Tower Bridge London Bridge, and the Tower of London. We didnt get to tour Parliment because it was closed, and we didnt tour the Tower of London it was closed. But we toured everything else. So then we got dinner at The Shakespear and then went out for some drinks. The bar was real lowkey, but I saw someone get kicked out of the bar, he was calling people whores and it was funny. So then we went to bed at like 11, and thats because the bars close at 12 because people are trashed by like 10..unlike spain at which 10 is when you go out for the night. It was different. So then we got up and checked out of the hotel and headed to the National Gallery, which was really cool, I got to see some monet, manet, cezzane, and then I got to see my fav painting which is called the wedding portrait. Its the painting with the mirror in the background at which no one knows whether the mirror reflects the painter, or the person looking at the painting, anyways... So then we headed to the British Museum. I saw alot of really awesome stuff such as mummies, greek stuff, roman stuff, afriacan stuff, native american stuff, what not. So then Mike and I headed towards the hotel, and I got to finally ride a double decker buss I got to sit in the front of the bus on the top it was amazing lol. So we got our luggage, went to the station got dinner (subway) and got on the tube to head to the train station. We got to the train station only to find that we have to backtrack and go to another station because there was problems with the station. So we get there only to find out that NO trains are running because they are working on the tunnels. So they tell us that we can take busses and our tickets will be good for the bus ride. So we waitted about 40 mins for the bus to come and finally it does, and they tell us that it is the wrong bus. So we go back inside and they are like oops sorry its this way, so we go and we catch the bus who gets us there 50 mins before our flight, and we get in there 45 mins before our flight, and theres NO ONE in the station because people who missed their flights. Mike and I are RUNNING (ya me run) back and fourth to find someone to call for ryanair to let us in. Information is like umm no, sorry. So guess wat, we were in the airport and had to watch our flight take off cause no one would help us. So i cried alot and then we went to the bar. We drank, met a kid who also missed his flight. So we then went to sleep on the floor and then woke up every few hours. Around 5 we went and had to buy new tickets to get to Toulon (a city kinda of near Marseille) So then our flight boards at 11, and it is delayed so we didnt leave till almost 1, flew to Toulon, took a train to Marseille (that was an hour long) and took a bus from Marseille to Aix-en-Provence, and then took the regualr bus to my house. We started to head home at 6:30 on sunday night, and I was in my house at 8:30 on monday night. Umm 6 hours?!? Ya it sucked. Other than that london was good lol. SO I missed myy french class, the one I also missed friday, because my school thought it would be a good idea to have Monday/Friday class. Anyways the absents are excused (only because my teacher is really cool.) Also I am going to be putting up pictures on my yahoo photos, and the link is in my profile. If you cant get it IM me/facebook me/myspace me whatever.

*Jess S. I tried looking for the teddy bears you told me about but I forgot what they are called and no one knew what I was talking about. Sorry, and I am not going back so I cant get one or get you one. Sorry lol