Saw the Queen today! Just another day in London..

Aliright, I'm getting slower and slower at updating this thing!  I've had so much school work lately. I almost had a panic attack last night looking at all the papers and presentations I need to do before my parents come in three weeks!

But apart from the school work, I've had a great past couple of days!

On Wednesday Caity and I took a tour at the BBC with the ISA group!  It was reaaaally cool!  Only it'd probs be cooler if I actually watched the BBC, but whatevs. 

We got a tour of some of the bigger parts of it, when into some stars dressing rooms and learned how the green/blue screen works!  Well, we all already knew how it worked, but our tour guide was showing us how they made the invisibility cloack on Harry Potter.  It was extremely simple.  They just stood behind a green/blue screen, and got a blanket that's green/blue and draped it over them.  So on the screen, someone in our group had a floating head, it was funny.  

We saw people walking around that looked important with dazzling white smiles and ear pieces in.

Near the end of the tour we went in a room with costumes and masks and stuff.  Caity and I volunteered being news anchors!  Lol I love being a pretend news anchor.  Actually, last time I did it, I was a weather person, and Taylor was a news anchor at the NBC studios in NYC.  So after Caity and I read the news, we got free BBC pens for volunteering! Woohoo!

Walking to the tube station! I feel like I don't get enough pictures of Big Ben.

BBC Studios!

BBC!

The booth from Dr. Who!

This is like UK's ESPN or something.

Where me and Caity became news anchors for 5 minutes

So then on Thursday in our art and society class, we went to a gallery,  It started with a C, but I can't remember the name.  We saw paintings by Ben Nicholson and Piet Mondrian.  They were modern art peices, and I'm sure everyone had seen a poster or something of theirs in a art history book at some time or another.  Mondrian's work is the white background with black horizontal and vertical lines with squares of yellow, blue and red.  I used to love looking at his work when I was in like middle school so it was fun to see the real things!

Then after that we walked around the rest of the gallery and I saw some pieces painted my Van Gough (pronounced Van Goff here) and Picasso!  Totally legit.

Picasso

Van Gough

On Friday morning, Caity's friend, Holly, landed in London.  So they were chillin all day and I was at the flat, probs doing homework or something.  On Saturday morning they left to go to Liverpool, so I was chillin by myself all weekend, which wasnt bad!  The weather was beautiful on Saturday, so I decided to grab my books and walk to Green Park and read for a while.  I was sitting in the park, looking at Buckingham Palace, reading my book on a beautiful day in London.  It was amazing.  Near the early evening it started to get colder so I decided to leave and walk to Sainsbury's to grab some supplies to make cake balls!  I got lost for about an hour though.  Well not really lost, but I took the long was to Sainsbury's and ended up not where I thought..  So I finally found it. 

I made some yummy cake balls, then I went out with my friend Meg!  We went to an All Bar One at Trafalgar square and split a pitcher of sangira! yumm!  Then we went to another pub in Traf. Sqaure and met some guys from Latvia who burned my hand on a flaming shot :(  They ended up giving us some cheesecake afterwards, so it was worth it haha.

Yesterday, on Sunday, I serisouly spent about 4 or 5 hours reading another book I got.  It's Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks and it's soo good!  All of you, go buy it now.  Caity and Holly came back home at around midnight so we were just talking and stuff and finally went to bed.

Then this morning me and Caity were walking to class and all of Westminster Abbey was blocked off!  We asked a policeman what was going on and he said that today is Commonwealth Day (idk) and that the Queen was going to show up at 3 pm!  So we went to class and came back around 2:30 to wait for her arrival at Westminster Abbey!  Prince Philip and Camilla showed up in the first Bentley, then the 2 cousins, Beatirce and Eugine showed up (yes, one of them was wearing a funny hat) in the second Bentley, then a few mintues later the Queen showed up!  She waved from her window in her adorable little pink suit and hat!!  She got out of the car and waved a tad and walked into the Abbey.  So yeah, we saw the Queen today.

I haven't uploaded the pics yet, but I'll post them on here once I do!  Actually, I didn't get that great of pictures, so I'm gonna wait for Holly to upload her pics of the Queen and then just steal them and put them up here.

Now I'm just sitting here, procrastinating working on my stupid marketing project.  Which me luck.

Cheers!

Woahhh!

I can't believe I've already been here for 5 days!  I feel like it's about about 50.  Where to start...?

Hmm, okay. For starters, my flat is in probably the best location to live in London!  It's 2 blocks from Westminster Abbey, Parliment and Big Ben!  My walk to the Westminster tube station to class everyday is GORGEOUS!  No matter how many times I walk past Big Ben I always have to look up.  My flat is in a great, safe location and I couldn't have asked for anything better!

My screen saver for the past 2 months..

...my view walking to class!

On my first full day in London, the whole isa group took a 2 and a half hour tour around this beautiful city!  We took an old double decker and theres only one other like it in the city.  They're for special occasions and cost a lot of money.  Its super cute and vintage!  Our tour guide told us our bus was the EXACT one Kate Middleton to be wed to Prince William and she said that me and my roommaite, Caity, were sitting in the same seat she sat in!!! Omg I seriously screamed when she told me.  I still have royal wedding fever.. 

But the tour was great and out tour guide was so imformative!  We drove all aound London and saw so many amazing things like Diagon Alley from Harry Potter, The Tower of London, and the London Bridge!  I totally wouldn't mind taking another tour.

Diagon Alley!

The London Bridge!

Where Kate sat just a few months ago!

Tower of London

The next day Caity and I roamed the city ourselves.  We shopped around Oxford Street and went to Buckingham Palace.  Omg that place is HUGE.  Oxford Street is the largest shopping strip in the world!!  It's a really really bad thing that I live 10 minites from it.. 

It's a shame I couldn't find Harry..

Yesterday (Tuesday) we got up early (again...) and finialized our class schedules.  I lucked out and have a 4 day weekend!  How could my week seriously get any better?!  I'm so thankful that I have such a long weekend while I'm living in London!

After that I finally dragged Caity to Abbey Road!!  I had so much fun there, it was amazing!  Of course I walked across it like 8 times and I signed the wall twice.  My mom even got a picture of me when she was watching it live online! (abbeyroad.com/thecrossing)  I've always wanted to go to Abbey Road and it was a dream come true to finally go!  I'm going there at least once a week while I'm here. :)

Yesterday we also went to Harrods and had High Tea!  It was so yummy!  We had tea, finger sandiches, biscuits, and a lot of dessert!  I'm srating to like english tea, especially after have cold tea with an ungodly amount of sugur in it down in the south..  Here, they put milk in their tea!  I love it! After tea we spent four hours just walking around and getting lost at Harrods.  It was incredible!  I've decided before I leave, I'm purchasing some Louboutins from Harrods.

Abbey Road!

Me, walking across Abbey Road!

The picture my mom took of me from online!

I left my mark at Abbey Road!

High Tea at Harrods!

Today was more of a relaxing day.  We slept until 1 p.m. and didnt leave the flat until approx. 3.  We've been on a mission since the day we got here to buy a hair dryer but we've been so busy roaming London that we haven't run into a store that has one!  So we went to Primark today to try to find one.. it was a trap!  Primark is like Forever 21 on steroids, literally.  We were in the store for about and hour and a half.  I was very happy with my purchases and so was my wallet!  The most expensive pair of shoes I found were only 20 pounds!!  We didn't walk out of that store empty handed, but we failed to buy a hair dryer.  So once again, that is on the agenda for tomorrow.

Tomorrow all of the study abroud students at Westminster have a boat party/ disco on the river Thames! 

I love London so much, I don't think I'm ever going to leave.

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