Boppin in the UK

So as you have probably noticed, I haven't had more time to write any blogs so I am putting our agendas down below and will embellish upon my return.

Day 1
Arrive in England. Trip to ASDA.

Day 2
Camden Town Market. Lunch at hole in the wall Fish & Chips restaurant. Used book store. Trifalger Square. Lost. Fiddler on the Roof. Cafe Nero.

Day 3
A whole day of travel for a one hour train ride to Oxford. Will explain later. High tea at Oxford. Dinner at Eagle & Child. Stay at The Cock & Camel...yes, that was the name of the place.

Day 4
Oxford sightseeing. Carrie's Panini place. Ray Cam library. Primark. Christ Church. Copa. Stayed at The Cock & Camel again.

Day 5
More Oxford sightseeing. Park. St. Mary the Virgin. Tower. Covered market. First day to rain! Left for Roehampton.

Day 6
Slept in by accident. Buckingham Palace. Kensington Gardens. Kensington Palace. Tower of London. Tower Bridge. Pizza Express. Picadilly Circus. Shirley Temples at the bar...kinda.

PS. England newspaper headlines are hilarious. Today's front page story read "Kate Moss Bops Until 2 AM." So we haven't really been boppin' yet, unless you count our dance party last night, but it fits.

Bags

We arrived at Heathrow airport yesterday afternoon, exchanged dollars for pounds (which I absolutely love their currency,it is so elegant), bought our Oyster Cards (like a Metro card for the Tube and buses), and made our way from the Tube to Hammersmith stop to get on a bus to Roehampton. Luckily, another girl from Biola was at Hammersmith and saw us. She led us back to Roehampton and we didn't get a bit lost.

The only tad bit of difficulty was with our bags. I can't even explain the oddity we must have been dragging our heavy 10 days worth of luggage onto the Tube, up stairs, through hundreds of people and eventually dragging it on the bus and sideways through the aisle. The best part of our journey, I must say was when we were attempting to carry our bags up the steep stair well from the Tube. A man with at least 6 peircinngs on his face grabbed the bottom of Aly's bag in front of me and proceeded to help her up. As he turned around, I noticed the phrase "F**K YOU" pinned across the back of his vest. In my head at that point, I couldn't help but think "This is awesome!" He then came back down the stairs to help me. Talk about an oxymoron.

Is that rain?

Amy and I sat in our kitchen helping Megan bake cookies last week...aka. taste test them...when I thought I heard rain outside. I was a bit surprised even though it had been a little cloudy. My ears stayed perked as I listened for the rain. The steady sound of droplets of water continued, yet as I scanned towards the screen door in the kitchen, no rain could be seen. At this point, I was definitely confused, but positive I wasn't crazy.

I stood up and walked into the dining room. My gasp alerted Amy and Megan in the kitchen who had been steadily talking through my ponderings and I shouted "Oh, No! Rain...It's raining in the dining room!" As you can imagine, Amy and Megan ran into the dining room as I dramatically attempted to open the shutters and shut the window.

We all doubled over laughing at this point. The new sprinkler system at our house had been set up and aimed not only at the grass, but our dining room window. After the laughter subsided slightly, only slightly since this was an extremely funny matter, we mopped up the wet floor and dining table. Luckily, our wood floors are still intact and you would never know our dining table had been soaked by "rain."

I will forever smile at the phrase "It's raining in the dining room," though. It still makes me laugh.