Monday, February 23, 2004

I left my heart in London

Sights:
Stonehenge: Amazing. I outgrew my new agey thing a long time ago, but there's something there. You can feel it. Funny moment when Marina held her audio guide up to her ear like a telephone and said "Stonehenge? Is that you? I told you never to call me here." That girl kills me.
Windsor Castle
Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace: Lots of walking back and forth. The marching band guards played, I shit you not, Mrs. Robinson, All at Once by Whitney Houston and Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong. This spawned four days of impressions of the Queen saying things like, "Guards, are you familiar with that J.Lo? I quite fancy that "Jenny From the Block" song. Learn it for tomorrow."
Harrod's: Unbelievable. Seriously unfuckingbelievable.
Westminster Abbey
Etc. etc.

Food: I've never eaten so much meat in my life. How I was a vegetarian for seven years blows my mind.

Drinks: There's only one reason I could never live in London -- the pubs close at 11. At 11! I've never been much of a club person, and after 11 it's the only option. We did our duty as tourists and partook of the clubbing, though. I shook it like a Poloroid picture until the wee hours of the morning.

Boys: *Drool* Boys in London make an attempt to chat you up before making with the bumping and grinding in dance clubs. That was a nice change from American boys, who think dry humping you on the dance floor and "hello" are synonymous.

Miscellaneous:
Girls in London don't wear nail polish.
We were lucky to have Sean, Tour Guide Extraordinaire and Sweetest Englishman on Earth, take two days out of his life to show us the sights and drive us all the way to Stonehenge.
I am in love with Dom from Dick and Dom in the Bungalow, a Saturday morning kid's show. Seriously, I want to marry him. I might send him a love letter.
I bought the most gorgeous black velvet fedora and I'm never taking it off.
We saw the most hilarious card in a store. It had a picture of a naked woman standing on a scale and said "Amelia wondered if a crap would make a difference." I can't tell you how many times some form of that was said while we were on holiday.
There is a David & Goliath store in London. I procured a "Boys are stupid. Throw rocks at them" T-Shirt. I love it.
TopShop is my Mecca.

So there you have it, folks. My trip to London in a nutshell. Wondering which juicy details I left out? Good.