Sunday, January 27, 2013

Spectating and Speculating

So this weekend was simply bunches of fun.

Saturday morning we went to Buckingham Palace to see the Changing of the Guard, we actually had a decent spot and it was fun to see it all! [disclaimer: I did steal a couple of pictures...what can I say, my friends have fancy cameras, okay?]


The four of us [me, Taylor, Megan, and Caitlyn] decided to go ahead and get up and have an adventure, since Saturday was our first entirely free day so far! We all happened to be wearing coordinating colors, which we didn't even notice till this picture was taken.


 It was a glorious day! The sun was out, and it was warm enough that we didn't have to wear our heavy coats! I woke up that morning, looked out the window, and then opened up and stuck my head out the window because it was simply stunning and I was so thrilled.


We were so excited and actually had a pretty good spot to watch everything!


There was a lot of marching around and yelling by the apparent leader (or whatever the appropriate term is) of the group. As you can see, there were people everywhere outside of the gates.



It was kind of like a big, super official and uniform, parade. Everyone was strangely silent as all this occurred, with little talking between spectators and it was as if people had a certain reverence for the tradition. Very different from what it probably would be like back home.


They actually came pretty close at one point, seeming to greet the crowd (and by greet I mean they would walk up close-ish to the gate and then turn around and approach the opposite side).


And then the horses came by on the street. How fun!


Afterward we took some pictures. It's crazy how many different languages we were hearing around us!


Jumping pic fail.


It was a lot of fun.
After that we went to Primark-which was partly a great thing but also a terrible idea. It's like a Forever 21, but a billion times better and with significantly better deals (for the most part...we were paying in pounds). Following that we headed home to relax, hang out, and attempt some productivity in our reading.

Today we went to All Saint's for church, which I really enjoyed. Someone from church invited us out to eat at Nando's with a group of them for lunch. So Kristen and I headed off to find it. Apparently neither of us were paying much attention, because it took us quite a while to find Nando's, and when we got there it appeared that we were at the wrong one! So we set off to find the next closest one, which was unsuccessful. Just as we were giving up, we came across an area that looked familiar, and it turns out we went in a massive square, because we ended up at the same Nando's we had dropped by the first time, so we just gave up and ate there. We speculated about where the correct Nando's could possibly be (because apparently no one in London knows anything about directions or information about the city) or if we had somehow missed them, and then moved on with our lives and enjoyed some lunch at long last. Thankfully, both of us had been looking forward to eating there because it's been talked up quite a bit, apparently One Direction eats there or something, and it has fairly affordable prices. It was fun because there were all these different sauces, some of them were pretty spicy, but we went ahead and tried the hottest one there and it was surprisingly bearable! Lots of fun and the adventure was worth feeling a little lost for a couple moments!!

Anyway, it's getting late, both of my roomies are asleep, and I have class in the morning. Cheers!



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