None of us slept! I think between midterms just ending, the excitement of our trip, and knowing we had to wake up at 4am, laying wide awake was inevitable. So we left for the airport at 4:30 and everything with ryanair and our flight went so smoothly. We were all so relieved because we’ve been hearing horror stories all semester of stuff going wrong. Thankfully it was one of my better flying experiences. Our plane got in half an hour early, so we jumped on a train and headed into London. The metro station was fairly close to our hotel and we just had two small rolling bags, one Kristen and I were sharing, and one for Hannah. Our hotel was the cutest thing though. It wasn’t called a bed and breakfast but was very similar to one and it was just a small family that owned the place. Our room was huge compared to the other European hotels I’ve stayed in and Kristen and I had a queen size bed to share instead of a double and Hannah and Maddie both had twins. So the first thing we did was go to Starbucks. Hahaah I know it sounds crazy but I was craving a peppermint mocha! Italy’s café latte’s are absolutely amazing but you can’t get flavored coffee drinks or mochas here. So we all took pictures and got Starbucks almost everyday we were in the U.K.
London is absolutely beautiful and it was almost a culture shock for all of us readjusting to an English speaking country and one that has Starbucks and chain stores and restaurants. It’s full of weirdness as momma would say! Actually at the airport this guy and I ran into each other and he said sorry as I said “scusi.” And suddenly I was like “oh excuse me.” That happened throughout the first couple days we all kept saying “grazie” and “ciao” it was totally weird! Anyway, back to London, it’s such a fun city and it reminds me a ton of NY. I guess that’s also because a lot of NY was designed in similar ways to London.
So we got our Starbucks and walked through Kensington Gardens. The park is absolutely huge and it was so perfect this time of year because the leaves were all orange and red and covering the pathways. It was supposed to rain all day but the weather was sunny and 60 degrees which I enjoyed so much! Afterwards we jumped on the tube to Trafalgar Square and then spent a couple hours in the National Gallery. There were paintings by so many famous artists like da Vinci, Vangogh, and Raphael. Next we window shopped and went to China Town. Maddie was craving Chinese food so we ate and then headed to an Art school. It was in the middle of London and Hannah wanted to look at it because she’s thinking about applying to do her masters there. And afterwards all of us were talking about possibly living in London for a short time someday. The possibilities are endless and it’s amazing hahah who knows what will happen?!
The last part of the night Maddie, Kristen, and I went to the musical Les Miserables. We bought tickets a couple weeks in advance because we thought it was necessary to see a Broadway play in London haha. Les Mis was absolutely beautiful! Seriously I was mesmerized! It was a tragedy, which I don’t usually like, but the performers voices were beautiful and the plot and everything ahhh haha still swooning! By the end of the night we were all so wiped out and crashed after getting back to the hotel. (Oh and Hannah went and saw the Duchess which is apparently very very good it’s really cool because it was filmed at the art school we went and checked out for her. Very cool!)
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