Lovee Paccadilly Circus! Its not an actual Circus, but its just a part of London that’s a-mazing.
The first night we got here we just went around for a while, a couple of the others stayed in while me and 2 of the girls went out to try and get some night photography around town without hoping on the tube (subway) but we're in Russel Square where there isn’t tooo much to look at at night, the whole London eye is a small tube way away. we walked for miles probably, just around and explored the city, didn’t take too many pictures though. Then when we got back we didn’t really wanna go to bed yet so we stopped at the Hostile Bar for "a" drink which turned into a few. I didn’t even order a drink yet and got up to the bar and someone gave me 2 shots before i even ordered mine, im like heyy okay :) At first i said no because wasn't about to take drinks from people here i didn’t know, i said "can i trust you" while half laughing trying not to be awkward about it, he's like yahh oh yah I work here blah blah so I took them, then ordered a strong bow, then a vodka soda :) We talked to the two gentlemen who work here but were off duty, they were Aussies which = a good time, funny guys and good times. We went in fairly early, none of us wanted to get DRUNK plus spend a lotta money. so we went to bed.
We woke up and headed out for a free tour provided by our Hostile, they take you everywhere in London, it was pretty cool cause most tours cost a lot of moeny. so we saw...
Big Ben (the big clock)
London Eye (the big wheel thingy
Westminster (where Kate and william got married)
Buckingham Palace (where the queen lives but was in Ireland and where kate n william had their "peck")
We kind of saw the changing of the guards but there were SOO many people so we didn't really get a good spot. but we SAW the guards at least. and of course i ventured to a spot to see better and got yelled at by a guard "GET BACK!" which I just chuckled.
These are the guards, Buckingham was SO busy during the changing of the guards, so it was very hard to get a good shot, this was the best I could do!
The next two pictures are of buckingham palace, again you can see how busy the area was!
This is big ben. the first one is me in front of the tele booths obviously and then big ben in the backround and then Just big ben in the 2nd one. It was pretty cool to see cause when you think of London its one of the things (atleast I) think about. :)
This is the London Eye. The area it was located was pretty cool, lots of tourists ofcourse, but there was also lots of street performers with little hats to collect change as well.
Here are some other spots of London:
Pigeons are EVERYwhere, and not just in London, all over.
Westminster Abbey <3
I swear we walked like 1,000 miles, even with the best shoes your feet are still bound to hurt but at least i don’t have mummy feet this time abroad :)
So when we got back we have 30 minutes to get ready to go OUT. We decided to do the Pub crawl. It was $15 pounds for the pub-crawl t-shirt, free admission to all the pubs and then a free shot/drink at each as well. It was a blasty blast. We partied with people from Madison, WI- Canada, Argentina, Michigan and others too but don’t really remember all the places! We went to a couple of the pubs then the other places were clubs, pubs and clubs! Lots of dancing!! I didn’t drink to much at all (surprisingly right?) I got all my free drinks, someone else’s free shot or two, and then I didn’t really buy extra I don’t believe and I stopped drinking 3 hours before we left. (Be proud mom, be proud) I didn’t even care that I wasn’t drunk I had a good time either way, and I still danced and partied and I wasn’t even hung over in the morning. #winning! The tubes were closed by the time we left (didn’t leave till about 1:30am) so we were like hmm how should we do this? Bus? Taxi? We hadn’t done either ever so I threw my hand in the airrr and a taxi instantly stopped, kind of felt like a little New York style. Picaddilly Circus reminded me a lot of New York even though I’ve never been there, it had those huge digital advertisements that are on like big screens like you see in the movies and it was pretttty coal I tell yah.
OH I almost got in some major troubs because I had pepper spray, when they checked my bag before going into one of the clubs they pulled out my pepper spray and told me to “step aside” and that this was a “criminal offense and against the law to have such a “weapon”” I was kind of freaking out not gonna lie. I tried to just explain that in the states its obviously legal to carry it around, and a smart thing and that I just brought it with for safety and all that. He eventually let me in like 5-7 minutes later which was clearly a good thing, but it was kind of a buzz kill at that.
OO and before we left we got pizza to eat in the taxi. It was delicious
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