London with Michelle 'Green' Park

Well, I got up at quarter to 7, which is earlier than I've been up the whole rest of week. I paid a lot of money for the train, sat next to a business man with smelly aftershave and got to London just before 10am. At least I got there though cos the train was packed. I took the Tube straight to Marble Arch, where I saw these cool murals on the wall!


I decided to go to the Embassy and take a look and wait for Michelle. Its a rather formidable looking building with all sorts of security measures around it. Hmmm well at least I can say I've seen it, even if I never get to go in myself. I met Michelle - who has been approved! - soon after and we headed off.

We took a sroll along Oxford Street and Park Lane; visited the Disney Store, wandered in to a Pizza Express that had no door and which turned out to be closed anyway, before settling on a little cafe down a side street. I have to say that the food was awesome and for central London, cheap as well!
With lots to talk about and catch up on, there was plenty of chatter and so the waitress had to wait a while for us to decide! Anyway with some food inside us, we decided to set out to find Harrods. Because, as a frequent visitor to London and well-to-do member of society, Michelle has a loyalty card there!! Except, we couldn't find it! Small matter of forgetting that the nearest tube to it is Knightsbridge and not Oxford Circus.

So Michelle bought some teddies and we played with the toys!! I still swear that the Little Miss Chatterbox had a little bit of a Lancashire accent that made it sound suspiciously like her! As per usual, we saw some amazingly ridiculously expensive things: £110,000 for a 108" screen TV (looked like a projector screeen it was so big) and the most amazing ornate chandalier I've ever seen for £22,000!

Feeling a bit knackered due to a combination of the early starts and a rather extensive tour of Harrods (where we got pressed pennies!! [Thanks you for the £1 Michelle]), we sought out the nearest branch of Starbucks and collapsed into some rather comfy armchairs for further nattering over yummy drinks and amazing cake :-D Gosh, I love Hazlenut Hot Chocolate and the Ginger Cake was reeeaaaaalllllyyyy good.

With time pressing, we headed off to the tube station for our final journey. We changed at Green Park as you can see...
...and this sparked off conversation about all of Michelle's various Facebook names: Jurassic Park, South Park, Park and Ride etc. We said our final goodbyes there - Michelle went to get her coach for the 6hr jaunt to Preston and me to tube it back to Waterloo.
Except I decided not to go to Waterloo, I stayed on til Lambeth North and took a little trip to the Imperial War Museum! I didn't have long, but was interested (due to my dissertation) to see the Holocaust Exhibition. So I did. For a history nerd like me, it was good and I could have spent a lot longer than I did there.

It was about 3.40pm when I left the IWM and got the tube the one stop to Waterloo and pretty much repeated the exact same routine as when we came back from Paris in March ie running up esculators and running all the way to my platform to get the 4.05pm fast train back to Southampton, which I boarded at 4.03pm!!

Gosh! There endeth the tale of my little daytrip to London which I must say was a very welcome break from work. It was awesome to see Michelle again, talk about mutual (Disney) chums, have a laugh (or several) see the sites of London and be crazy!

*OTHER NEWS*
Happy 20th birthday to Ruth for the 3rd, Happy 21st to Tom for tomorrow.
Today is the official month mark since I've been on the Waiting List :-( and its also one month until Michelle heads off to Florida... How time has actually flown since October - or indeed since I first applied for the CRP in July 08!
In 24 days, I'll have finished with Uni forever too, so how 3 years have flown!

Ummm that's it, I think. Until next time, Keeeeeeep Daaaannnnccciiiinnnnngggg