As I’ve posted about twelve times, my parents are in England this week! We’ve been having such a great week! But since they went to Bath yesterday morning and aren’t back until late tonight, I finally have some down time to myself, and I wanted to blog a quick update on everything.
Fighting through the rough jetlag and minimal hours of sleep, my parents were troopers walking through my neighborhood seeing my buildings and exploring Covent Garden and Soho. My dad kept raving about a wine bar that they went to last time they were in London with my brother, so we figured we’d try to find it. Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful in finding it, but we found another awesome restaurant, a Tapas place called Pix Pintxos with a great lunch bargain on Sundays, that we can add to the books. Spending the day walking, shopping, and catching up was the perfect start to the week. We ended the long day by going to a delicious Italian restaurant, Signor Sassi, that made you feel like you were in Italy with the waiters singing in Italian every chance they had and the family-sized portions. Yum! And since it was right off Knightsbridge, we got to see Harrods! It was even more amazing to see at night with all of the beautiful lights.
Harrods! So pretty!
The next day, we decided to head over to the Victoria and Albert Museum (which is only a 5 minute walk away, score!). It wasn’t much of an outside day since it was raining pretty hard in the morning. We wanted to do a guided tour, but were ridiculously bored after about 10 minutes. We were pretty much like those students in school who just can’t seem to concentrate on anything the teacher is saying. Well… at least that goes for me. So we decided to choose the better option: we went to the Ball Gown Exhibit that I’ve heard so much about! It wasn’t as interesting for my dad, but my mom and I loved it!
Ball gown worn by Sandra Bullock and featured in a Gossip Girl episode! (^)
Ball gown worn by Beyonce. I wonder if they had to have the mannequin customized for Beyonces crazy curves. (^)
One of my favorites! (^)
The middle ball gown was worn by Princess Diana. (^)
After spending a decent amount of time dreaming about wearing one of those dresses someday, I had to run to class, but thankfully for my parents, the weather cleared up and they were able to do a double decker bus tour! Later in the day, we went to dinner in SoHo and saw my first show while here! It’s called Baggage, and it’s a very small production. It was in a small theatre and had a 7-person cast. It took place in Primrose Hill and was all about online dating; it was really fascinating to learn some statistics (such as 39% of those who marry someone they met via online dating divorce… sorry that’s one of the few statistics I can remember) and see the show. It was really clever and we all enjoyed ourselves!
Tuesday was a less family-oriented day because I had my placement interview in the morning! I’m officially interning at ZoneOne Radio in London! It’s a community radio station for Central London. It just started in January 2012, so it’s a start-up, which hopefully means I’ll be able to bring a lot to the table. I officially start on October 15th and couldn’t be more excited! Later in the evening I was able to meet up with my parents, and we ate at a pub in Notting Hill Gate and went to Churchill Arms, a famous pub in London that apparently Winston Churchill used to frequent. They had old artifacts hanging on the walls, which was really interesting decor. It was awesome to see!
The past day or two I’ve been catching up with homework and getting organized. On Monday & Tuesday, I have my finals for my classes, and Wednesday I’m off to Rome & Venice with a few friends for our Fall Break! It’s going to be such a fun week! I cannot believe how fast the program is flying by… on Tuesday I was officially here for a month. Craziness!
Travel update: I’ve booked a few more trips since my last trip! In early November, I’m heading to Paris, in mid-November I’m going to Amsterdam & Bruges, and in late November to early December I’m going to Dublin and Prague!! SO EXCITED! I feel like I haven’t done as much traveling as I’d like to so far, but I”m really pumped for my future trips.
I probably won’t have a chance to blog until Sunday, so sorry for the delay in posting. Have a great week & weekend! 🙂
M² in London 