So, I knew the Palace was going to be huge, but wow!!! Its really hard to describe and since you are not allowed to take pics inside, I cannot show anyone what it looks like!! The rooms are big, and decorated beautifully, even the visitor bathrooms, which I did take pictures of! Basically it was four hours of walking around looking at paintings and furniture and wondering why these people get to live in a place like this! Also they charge about 30 pounds for a tour, you think they could just let everyone in for free but nooooooooooo!
Anyways, after being told we were not allowed to eat in the grounds, walking around for hours, feet and backs killing, and trying to find guards to take pictures with, we decided to head home. This is a lot easier said than done, for you see, we live in "Greater Londond" and it took us approximately an hour and fifteen minutes to get from the Palace to our house. As most of you know, I usually am horrible with directions, but for some reason I was able to naviagte our way home quite easily. We just hopped on the James St. Park tube, switched at the Victoria station to get on the Victoria line, switched at Oxford Circus to get on the Central Line, got off at Leytonstone to switch to the right tube to get to Redbridge Station, hopped on a bus after waiting for ten minutes, got off the bus at Cranbrook Road and walked the five minutes to our house. Simple right??? Hahahah, and yes, I found our way home!!! Don't ask me how, I am just getting better at directions, and Facebook apparently since being here.
Once home I had to take a nap, after we ordered two large pizzas, one each, and I ate half of one, yes me, ate half of a large pizza. Ask Ashley if you don't believe me!! And it was delicious, from Domino's. Once up, it was out for the night, with Sarah, our new roomate from Toronto. Again, we had to get a bus which was detoured due to construction, so we had to ride the bus for about forty minutes into Redford?? I think!! We then went into the pub, The Edge?? for some live music and pints!! The music was fun, we met some of Sarah's teacher friends, and Ashley met some British boys!! We were all talkking, and having a laugh, making fun of their accents, and then they tried to teach us how to speak properly, when all of a sudden things turned sour. They were telling us that we lived in a horrible neighborhood, where he used to be in a gang. I asked him whether it was the Bloods or the Crips (don't know if that's spelled correctly) and he did not like that and started calling us names. Then Sarah came up defending our neighborhood, and things got worse. Apparently we are Mangy, French, American Cunts, Who Knew?? Not me, I guess you learn something new every day!!! Hahahah
Anyways, we tried not to let those guys ruin our night, and carried on to a gay bar where we danced to the Spice Girls!! That's right people, the Spice Girls. We stayed for a bit and then me and Ashley decided to go home. Sarah had told us where to get the bus so we followed her lead. After another thirty minutes of waiting in the middle of a dark street, with very few people, our bus shows up. We end up going past our stop, and then being frustrated I decided to hail a cab. I guess I can only navigate during the day!!
Long story short, long day and night but funny experiences to write about. Slept till four today but hey, that's pretty good, seeing how I haven't been sleeping that good. Tomorrow, London, kareoke? Anything's possible here in England. Stay posted!!
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