I arrived on Thursday night because I was supposed to meet other friends there, but they didn't end up booking a ticket. Luckily, I know the city very well so I was able to walk around a little where I lived when I was interning at the Westbury Hotel in high school. Thursday night I stayed in a hotel near Russell Square (where I lived when I was there) and I had a low key night, I was exhausted from the week so I went to sleep pretty early, but that was ok because I had to wake up the next morning to check out and then transfer to the other hotel to meet Erika and Trish and Trish's friend, Margaret.
Our hotel was called Hyde Park Suite Apartments and it was right across the street from Hyde Park and a block away from two tube stations that were on the most popular tube lines. Each day we just bought an unlimited day pass so that we could just go on the tube as many times as we wanted to see as much as we could.
Friday we went to the Westminster area and saw the London Eye, the Millenium Bridge, Big Ben, Parlaiment, and Westminster Abbey. We were soooo lucky with weather, it was sunny all day, even if it was colder than Barca, at least there was no rain.
Friday night we went to the Fall Out Boy concert because Trish and Margaret had a friend in the opening band that invited them. Luckily for Daddy, I got amazing seats and surprisingly had a great time! I forgot how much I liked Fall Out Boy's old music which was a lot of what they played. After the concert, we went back to around our hotel and Trish and I had Indian food for dinner which was amazing. After, we just went back to the hotel since it got late and we had a busy day planned for Saturday.
Saturday morning we woke up and went to Porotbello Road, a huge outdoor antique market that is only opened on Saturdays. It's a great place to find antique anything as well as jewelry; I got another horn necklace because I lost mine in Geneva.
After Portobello Road, we went to Kings Cross Station to see Platform 9 and 3/4's from Harry Potter!
After taking a million pictures at Platform 9 and 3/4's, we went to Leicester Square to buy tickets for a show that night. We should have planned it out better because a lot of shows were sold out by the time we got there, but we were able to buy tickets for We Will Rock You for later on that night.
After Leiscester Square we walked over to Picadilly Circus to take the tube from there to Baker Street to go to Madame Tussaud's. Obviously Madame Tussaud's is a huge tourist sight so we had to wait in a half hour line, but it was fun to take pictures with all the wax celebrities!
Saturday night we went to see We Will Rock You by Tottenham Court Road Station which is a play of all Queen music. I had seen it when I was in London during high school, but it was great to see again, I love all of Queen's music and it's such a fun show to go to, not to mention the amazing voices all of the actors have!
We went back to Leicester Square after the show to Chinatown and had some Chinese food for dinner. We went to ZooBar after that, but Trish and I left early from there because we don't like clubs and because we had early flights this morning. Since the tubes were closed because it was after midnight and because we didn't have any money, we decided to walk to get a little closer to the hotel and then take a cab from there. We walked from Leicester Square passed Picadilly Circus, up Regent Street to Oxford Circus and then we walked across Oxford Street passed Bond Street and Marble Arch which was the beginning of Hyde Park, but at that time, it started to rain and we were not close so we took a cab the rest of the way. We got back, packed up, and went to bed.
Luckily this morning my flight was at 11:25AM and Heathrow was only 15 minutes to where my hotel was so I was able to sleep later and leave later as well. I got home at around 4:00PM Barcelona time because Barcelona is an hour ahead of London. Since then, I've just been relaxing before school tomorrow, thankfully I won't have too much work for the next few weeks, just in time to welcome Christababa and Simone!!
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