January London Weekend

So I have pics up of my last weekend on facebook if anyone is interested. I will start at the beginning though which would be last Friday morning bright and early. We had to be on the bus around 8am and luckily I got a seat near the front with Kari and Katie and Amanda. The bus ride wasnt that eventful to be honest. I slept and listened to music. When we got there a bunch of people had their feild study at the National gallery for art history. As my lecture/tour thing wasnt until 1:15pm I went with Katie and Amanda to the Dahli Exhibit. It was really interesting because they also had throughout the exhibit fashion peices inspired by dahli. We meandered through there and another exhibit and then made our way (walking) to the National Gallery. We were taking photos like mad all the way there. Lots o fun.

Once at Trafalger Square we took more pictures and admired the frightening amount of pigeons flying insanely around. I know this is something everyone says about the square, that they have lots of crazy pigeons, but to be honest this was the first time I have seen such a large number there. I seperated from Katie and Amanda to meet my Prof and my class for the guide/lecture of all the peices there that we are studying this semester in art history. I love my prof, she is so enthusiasticand I find I am enjoying this semester much mor ethan last. I guess I like newer stuff, or maybe the stories that go with them.

Afterward I wandered around and searched for the theatre that Les Miserables was in as I wanted to know where it was for later. I strangely enough ran into another girl from the ISC who had just been at the American Embassy. Weird, I guess we are just all over the place! We chatted for a bit and I explored a little of that area. For those who know London it was the West end area, more specifically around Leicester. I still had another hour before I had to meet people for the evening, so I went to my trusty internet cafe. I love that place and I especially like that I found it on my own. I looked up Vincent Van Goh, because the prof had mentioned the whole thing about him cutting off his ear, but hadnt explained why, so I wanted to look it up, which of course sent me on other searches until I realised I was done. Oh and he cut off his ear because he was following around...mmmm... cant remember the artists name, starts with a G. Anywho, he was following this artist around and getting all upset because they disagreed on something about art so he cut off his ear and gave it to a prostitute and told her to keep it safe for him. Lovely eh?

I met up with Katie, Kari, Kurtis and Amanda. Amanda left to stay with her aunt and the four rest of us went to Leicester square to eat and wait for our play to start. Kurtis wasnt seeing Les Miserables so we checked out movie times and it turned out there was the new James Bond movie coming out at around the same time as our play would let out! Strangely while we were eating I got into a laughing fit because ... well dunno why, but I think it was a foreshaddowing to the rest of the weekend. In other words uncontrollable crying and laughter (good crying, dont worry). We made it to the theatre and it turned out we were at the very top in the nose bleeds, but we were still able to see pretty much everything! I paid a pound for the rentable binoculars, but ended up not really needing them. It was an excelently designed theatre! OMG, Les Miserables was amazing, I cried at so many songs, but usually made myself stop because otherwise I wouldnt have been able to see through my tears! Everyone was fabulous. Kari and Katie and I all loved it and could stop talking about it all the way back to the square (to get Kurtis). Once we got him and were walking to the tube station Kari somehow got Katie and me to start crying again, all the way accross Trafalger Square and into the tube station. It was crazy. Its been one of my dreams to see Les Mis on the West End and I cant beleive I have actually seen it! Wow. The subway to our hostel (which was the same one Karicia and I stayed in in December) was full of laugh crying. We made it safely to the hostel and into bed with no problems.

The next day (Saturday) Kurtis and Kari woke up early to go to their Human Geography feild study, so Katie and I slept in a little. We made it out eventually and got invited by "Australian guy" to hang out with them that night in the hostel. We said maybe and made our way down to the Imperial War museum. This is when I started craving waffles, actually no, thats a lie, I was craving them the night before, but all the same the point is I wanted waffles. The museum was interesting. I have been there before so I knew everything pretty well. We saw the holocaust exhibit again. Very intense, so we decided to walk up to the British Museum and take the scenic route through random (but safe), again getting some wonderful pictures.

The British Museum was really intersting. If you look on facebook there is a picture of me with a giant arm, which I mistook for a giant penis. "Hey look Katie, its a giant penis!" "No Libby, that would be an arm" "oh". Or somewhat to that extent. We gots to see mummys and statues and cool stuff like that, yeah. Our next stop after that I beleive was to go to Liecester Square again (can you tell I love this place), to see if I could get Oliver tickets for cheaply. Unfortunately there were non to be had so we walked over to the London Eye to get people before having supper. We greated Kari, Kurtis, Amanda, Heather and her friend Mustaffa. It turns out he is being trained in the Royal Air force, so I got to ask him lots of questions about that and chat with him.

So did I get my waffles? I am afraid you will have to wait and see. So tune in for the next instalment to find out, did Libby get her waffles? What did they decide to do on a Saturday night in London? and why are there no pictures of or from Libby on the Sunday? You'll find out soon!