Adventures!!

Well we are now officially done. No more classes and free time in London has been incredible. I can't beleive how little time is left though. It seems like just yesterday I was freaking out about coming here and now I'm freaking out about coming home. I'm so excited to see everyone and be back home, but its scary to leave this city I have come to love so much.

Sunday was an adventure day, which is when Zane, Megan and I go to random places doing random things and act silly. We tried to go to Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, but we couldn't exactly find anyone speaking so we thought it'd be funny to recite the preamble to the constitution. It was. We then took a bus to Trafalgar Square because we had seen these old buses pick up there. We waited for a while and then were so excited to get one one before we realized that it couldn't go anywhere because there was an accident and traffic was all backed up. But at least we got on the bus and took some pictures. We then wandered over to Covent Garden market for a bit. That evening I had a Thai food date with Natalie and it was fabulous.

Monday was a slower day. I went out in the morning for a walk down to the canals because we'd heard of a "Canal Cavalcade" going on because of the bank holiday. A bunch of boats had come to the area of the canal by Paddington (a 15 minute walk from the flats) and there were vendors selling food, activities for children and lots of fun food. I can't beleive that we live in such a fun and neat little neighborhood. That afternoon Amanda and I hiked up Primrose Hill, a park that has a pretty view of the city before heading over to Westminister Abbey for Evensong, a daily service where the boy's choir sings. I absolutely loved it. The service was really nice and the choir was incredible.

Yesterday was the last day of classes! To celebrate a group of our flat and associates (Sam, Zane and Courtney) went to Texas Embassy, a Mexican restaurant that my dad suggested to me. It was a really nice way to end the semester and celebrate Cindo De Mayo. Afterward we came back to the flats and realized we had forgotten to take pictures on the lion statues at Trafalger Square. So of course Zane, Megan and I turned that into and adventure. We first took a bus up to Hampstead Heath, a gigantic park that has a hill overlooking the city. I've been a few times, but never at night and it was amazing. We looked over the skyline lit up and talked forever. After a while we came down and took a bus to Tafalger and climbed up the lions. If you've never seen these things they are quite large and pretty high off the ground so I didn't really climb up, it was more like Zane pulling us up. We hung out there for a while looking at Big Ben all lit up too. It was such a pretty night.

Today was our final adventure day because Zane is leaving tomorrow. We spent the afternoon sitting under a tree in Regent's park, talking and laughing and talking some more. I didn't realize how long we'd been there but it was nice to spend time just relaxing. On our way back we decided to grab a bus and take it to the end: Willesden Bus Garage. We always hear of this place when they announce it on the bus (6 to Willesedn Bus Garage, and they pronounce garage funny) and so we wanted to see what it was all about. It wasn't all that exciting, but at least we can say we've done it.

Tonight we're gonna hang out and pretend that we aren't leaving so soon. With Zane leaving tomorrow the reality is going to really set in. Can't wait to see you all though, I really do miss everyone so much!