Just got back from a day in London, I have to work for a couple of hours tonight (normally our day off) which is disappointing as the others - Janet, Caitlin & Greer - are still there & are seeing Legally Blonde the musical tonight.
We arrived in London about 10.30am and headed for Picadilly Circus, where Caitlin knew of an Australian illustrator's exhibition happening in a little studio. I took them into Fortnum & Mason on the way, where I'd gone with Mum & Dad last week, and is like a less busy/smaller Harrod's. The exhibition was mainly of Shaun Tan, who's from Perth but works in Melbourne, but also some other childrens' illustrators, my fave being Shirley Hughes, who did Alfie and Annie Rose. I got a little bit excited reliving one of my favourite book series as a kid. There were a couple of Wallace & Gromit images in there too.
We went to chinatown and ate at the first place we came across, a Vietnamese restaurant. We were all pretty hungry and were glad the food came quickly. It was really good too, we were all very satisfied. I had rice/vegies/tofu which was actually called 'vegetarian on rice'. Glad it was just a translation error. We were talking about food places in Melbourne Central & QV and this guy at the table behind was like 'are you from Melbourne?' He was flying home tonight, turns out he's actually on Angry Boys, which none of us have seen yet, and was doing promotions over here for a few days. Cool story, huh?
We headed to Leicester Square to get the girls cheap tickets for the show and on the way came across M&M's World! I'd seen a few people carrying around yellow bags from there and was keen to see it for myself. It was basically walls of colour-separated overpriced M&M's, lots of squishy cushions of different coloured M&M's, different toys like M&M's flying a plane, a slot machine, t-shirt with cute things like 'Who's your candy?', big figures of princess/royal/other M&M's, personalised bracelets/keyrings/jewellery (weird right?) and lots more. We were a bit like kids in a candy store - oh, I guess that's exactly what we were - but because of prices didn't get anything.
We realised we hadn't visited platform 9 3/4 yet so we took the tube to King's Cross. There's a little hideout kind of thing, with half a trolley sticking out of the wall so we took a few photos before a big family came. Yay!
We were all getting a bit tired so headed to Green Park and had a bit of a relax. Then we went to Starbuck's, where Caitlin got coffee and we made use of a free toilet then tried to find a Maccas for a shared wanting of McFlurry. We walked past about 5 'Pret's & 2 more Starbucks' and only found our destination when we got back to Picadilly Circus! 3 of us got the limited addition Cookie Crumble Galaxy McFlurry and then sat downstairs for a bit. It was mainly my feet in new, slightly heeled boots rather than tiredness but we all wanted to sit. Pretty sad. It was 4pm, Janet went to find a park to relax in, the others headed back to Tr. Square to get obligatory shots with/of the big lions and I came back here.
So we didn't really actually get much done but still it was exhausting. We're all agreed on making the most of our time off this term, mostly to London but next time we have to have more of a plan!
I will try and do a brief overview of summer very soon... which was FANTASTIC by the way!
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