Saturday was a full on day!

So yeah, as you may be able to figure out, Jen and I went to Madame Tussauds last Saturday. It opened at 9am and I was in teh line from 8am. Yep. We were the geeky first people in line.

It was quite fun though, we were the first people up the stairs and we ran up and gave the lady at the top a big fright, but she was coool.

It was weird being the first people in though, we could go to any celeb we wanted and it was easy pie to get a pic with, no waiting. We managed to do the whole thing in 2 hours, which seemed really quick, but then cos we didn't have to wait to do/see anything it seemed a bit more resonable.

We got chatting to the guy in the One Direction Booth, he was pretty neat. I got my photo taken with them, and then half an hour later I went back cos I wanted one with just me and Louis (and he was in the middle...grr) but the guy was super cool about it and cos we had talked to him eariler and he remembered us, he got really into it and took his camera off the tripod to get the right angle, it totally worked too.

I liked the figures in this Madame T's a lot better than in NYC, but I think that cos of the Royals and the general British-ness of it. It was super fun.

After that, we headed down to Kings Cross, cos there was a Victorian Fair thing on to celebrate the opening of the newly refurbished station. Jen went home on the way, so I was exploring by myself. It was super fun though. They had all kinds of games and stuff going on, and it was all free! Kids could get their faces painted like they were a chimney sweep, or like they had small pox, it was brill.

I even got to throw a ball at some crockery and it hit and smashed! Amazing!

Firstly, a panorama of the scene -

Kings Cross Station

General theme setting carts

I failed at this one

 

Yeah, didn't try this one

SMASHED some crockery

Making peg dolls, reminded me of my time at TP

 

Shoe polisher

Oldest Ferris Wheel in the UK

Mmmm......

 

Oh, and I found this too -

I then headed home for some lunch, after which I went ot my mates place to dye her hair...that was a first! But I think I did a pretty good job. It was fun too, we just hung out and nattered about nothign haha.

I then decided I wanted to go into Regent St to have a look at the NFL stuff that was going on. They had a game at Wembley the next day and there was this big pep rally type thing. It was fun to watch the happenings, and the games, the music, the cheerleaders, and the superbowl trophy was even there, but I missed the line cutoff to get a pic with it, lame-o!

The trophy. Thats as close as I'll ever be to it I think.

 

I was exhausted that night, so I literally went home and passed out haha.

Sunday wasn't overly exciting, I slept in in the morning and then in the arvo headed down to Regent's Park for a wander round, and read my book. It got cold though, so I went home pretty quickly! Honsetly, I just chilled a lot that day, I was so tired...and poor haha.

Hope to update the rest of last week tomorrow though, keep ya posted xx

PICTURES. Enjoy.

We were the first ones there.....

Sick Child...eugh

So this week was an interesting one....Jake came down with what we thought at first was Tonsillitis, but turned out to be Scarlet Fever (or, as he likes to call it, Charlette Fever).

It meant a pretty slow week really.

Monday we all chillaxed at home while Jake just moped around. We wrote a letter to Mum to thank her for the All Blacks poster that she had sent, but apart from that we just read books and hung around on the couch. Nice for a change.

Tuesday was much of the same. Although I did go out Tuesday night to Hammersmith, cos Ingrid had managed to get tickets for Live at the Apollo which was pretty swell. We lined up for ages and got through the door JUST in the nick of time to get 3 seats together, and watched some pretty neat comedians. I can't remember all their names, but Jack Whitehall was there, and some other people who were very funny. They taped 2 shows. The first one wasn't so good, but the second one was hosted by this Aussie guy and it was awesome. Brendan Cole (remember him, from Dancing With the Stars??) was in the audience so the Aussie guy started making jokes about NZ, we cheered up the back and he was like "and I see we have an apt representation of NZ's population here tonight". Yay us! He started going on about how cool Air NZ's Safety vids are (and we all know they are) so that was fun. He also made a "boyband" on stage, and, well, I might be a bit of a fan of boybands so I enjoyed this sketch very much. I don't know when it will be on TV, but it will be worth watching. If they don't edit us out!! We were right up the back though so I HIGHLY doubt we will be on TV. Maybe next time?

PICS To COME

Wednesday, I had arranged to meet Jen to go to the Aquarium - cos I had a 2-4-1 voucher. We got there and were told the voucher didn't work for that aquarium...SUPER lame! So we decided to use the voucher for Madame Tussauds instead, so we tubed it up there and lined up for half an hour to get tickets for Saturday, and just because we are super annoying customers the lady at the ticket desk had to get the manager to do our tickets cos she didn't think we could buy advance tickets with a voucher, super duper lame-o. But we got there and then we went to GBK for lunch and all was well in the world - except Jake, who had been to the Dr that day and been diagnosed with Scarlet Fever and was now on Antibiotics and wouldn't be going back to school for the rest of the week. Poor kid.

Thursday, I had my "personal shopping" experience at Top Shop. Ohhhhhhh...fancy! Its a free service, so of course I was gonna do it! I went in and they had picked out a whole bunch of clothes for me, so I just tried them all on and mixed and matched. Walked out with one Skivvy. hahahhahaha. So many of the clothes they had out out for me were wool, and I'm allergic to wool, so I made it tough for them and they ahd togo change half the clothes hahaha. But I had fun, got a few ideas, maybe when I get a little more money I'll go back and get a few more things. There was a really cool playsuit thing that I really want, but it was £50....ouch!

Friday, I was going to meet up with a friend at Westfield, but she got her flights confused and ended up leaving Friday morning instead of evening haha, so my day freed up a bit. We came down to the library in the morning with Emma and Jake and he got a few books, and really enojoyed his library experience, yay!!

We went home to SUSHI for lunch...om nom nom and then I headed out to go meet up with Oli (British mate from home) who had come up to London for the weekend and we went to MacBeth at the Globe. It was a pretty sweet show. I'd never studied MacBeth or anything so I didn't really know it at all, but managed to follow it along pretty damn well. Billy Boyd (Pippin from LOTR) was in it, so that made it super duper cool. Oli had got some sweet seats too, second row from the front and right on the edge, so we were pretty much centre stage, huzzah! It was a really cool show and really well done. They did a little highland dance at the end and I geeked out over one of the guys GORGEOUS pointed toes hahaha. Ohhh me.....

So yeah, that was last week, and then there was last weekend, but thats gonna be very picture heavy, so I'll leave that for another day (maybe when I actucally have my flashdrive on me and I can uplaod the pics haha...)

MEE!!!!

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Hurrrah!!

So after that epic night out in Acton and then all round London, I deserved a sleep in. So I did. Until like 11am, which is pretty late for me!! I literally got up, had breakfast, had a shower, had lunch and then had to head into town to meet Jen cos we were going to Buckingham Palace!!

I'm sorry, I was a teeeensy bit excited.

Anyway, I met Jen by Vicky's fountain and we headed in. We had some guy spurting all the rules to us and we half listened/half looked at him thinking how much his job must suck, repeating that same stuff all day! We had to go through "airport style security" as they called it. So our bags had to go through a scanner and we had to walk through a body scanner. Luckily, neither of us had anything the least bit suspicious about us, as we are super duper lovely, so we got straight through and got our headsets.

We wandered through, it took us about 2 hours. The exhibition was about the Queen's Coronation, and it had her gown (as well as the gowns of her maid og honour and her mum and sister) and her robes!! Everything was super sparkley, and awesome to see. They even had the clothes that Charles and Anne wore...so tiny! So cute. It was a pretty spectacular experience. They even showed you a secret door that the Queen comes into her offical functions in one of the many Drawing Rooms.

AHhhhh, I wanna go back! But for now, pictures shall suffice - 

Tea Party in the Queen's back garden

I did manage to spill tea on me during this shot.....

EXCITED TOURISTS

Happy Charlette

What a happy day. OMG the gift shop afterwards was amazing also, gutted I didn't have any money to buy anything! I did try out some handcream though, and managed to squirt it all over me...typcial...

Sunday, was an epic day. Ant and Emma were having a whole bunch of friends over for a lunch (at 2pm) so they spent the morning cooking up a storm! I played many many many games of Uno with Jake in a bid to keep him enteratined haha. Eventually though, people arrived and I decided that I should leave them to it (well, I had already decided this, but I decided at a specific time that I should leave).

The Tour of Britian was on and they were racing down in Westminster, so I headed down there. I managed to get me a spot riiight next to the big screen and could watch all the cyclists pass, it was all very exciting.

When I got there, the Jersey Boys were performing, they were fun -

 I ended up finding a pretty neat spot, and the lady beside me was super helpful and told me who all the British people were that were racing, so I understood the screams a bit better haha. It was all very exciting!

All the teams came up on stage and were announced so I knew who they were
*in the know*

The track

Mid-Race

The crowd built up a lot behind us

The finish line

 Me being me, managed to find Jack Bauer, NZ's premiere cyclists and won a couple of the sprint laps during the race -

This bus had a washing machine inside it. Awesome.

Went home after that and pretty much crashed!! Full on weekend man!

Hope to update more soon y'all

Charlette x