Anyways, SO!!
Thursday - well, in my diary it just says "home day" so I guess thats what it was. Chillaxing round here IS one of my fav things to do!
Friday however, was another story! Jake went off to school and I went back to bed for a bit, cos Ant was taking Jake over to his parents house after school, so I wasn't needed again. I headed out around 11.30 and went down to the Borough Market again for some eats. I wandered around there for a bit, tried many pesto's, olives, teas, all the good stuff. There was a lot of this "truffle" stuff, its a very strong taste, but I don't think I'm really a fan. After finding some Fejioa's (expensive, tiny and bruised, but still YUM!) and Turkish Delight (mmmmmm) and Pesto that I liked, oh, and eating my way around the market, I walked along the South Bank for a while. I found some SUPER lovely toilets (that were opened as a dedication to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.....odd I thought), saw some interesting sights, found some amazing sand art, and yeah.
So after that I wandered up past Westminster Abbey, had a look in the gift shop, didn't buy anything (AMAZING) before wandering up to Buckingham Palace to get tickets for me and Jen to go on the tour the next Saturday. After successfully getting that, and waiting in no lines, I started the trek up to Baker Street.
It was a decent trek, but I've wanted to figure out how Baker St fits into the rest of the city for a while so I figured I may as well walk it. So I wandered through New Bond St (which has all the GORGEOUS stores - Chanel, Gucci, DKNY, Cavalli, you name it, its there!) and went into a few stores, but was so exhausted I couldn't really be bothered looking around. Except Burberry. I looked around there a lot. Once I got to Baker St, and went and saw a Travel Agent and got some quotes, I eventually figured out where the Bus Stop was to get home.
I came home to an empty house and chilled for a bit before putting on the first load of washing. I changed my duvet, did like 4 loads of washing, vacuumed my room and tidied up. Successful night I say!
Saturday morning was an early one as I went to meet up with Ingrid for the AB's v SA game. MAN, what a game! We found a sweeeet as pub which opened early for the game and we scored a couch second row back from the screen so it was a brilliant spot. Good game, glad I watched!
I came home and when I went to make lunch, Jake and Ant arrived home. I ended up spending the arvo with them. Jake wanted to play cowboys so him and Ant got hats and masks on and I played "Bonanza" and "Rawhide" in the background haha. It then turned into a game of Epic Movie Theme Tunes and "hide the pen" which ended up being very creative and fun.
Ant and Jake had to go out again that night, so I just hung out and watched X Factor before bed.
Sunday was an early-ish morning. Chilling here before I went down to Tower Pier to meet another kiwi Au Pair. We were going on a Thames River Cruise. I was waiting at the pier for 40 minutes cos she got completely lost and confused on the underground (granted, she's not living in London). We eventually got on the boat and headed for Greenwich.
We got off in Greenwich and had a bit of a poke around but it started to rain really heavily and we kinda lost momentum. But here are a few pics from the day -
 |
| Some random old Warehouse but I thought it was pretty |
The markets were pretty cool too, I really wanna go back there when I have some money!!
On the way back, we went all the way up to the London Eye Pier and then back to Tower Pier where we headed home.
 |
| The London Eye is very photogenic |
 |
| Oh HEEYYY St Pauls |
BIG weekend, in fact a big 3 days really!!
Catch you up soon,
xxxxx
No comments:
Post a Comment