Just found out though that my mom's friend, a travel agent, just found a flight to Italy for $215 roundtrip!! So excited. I've been looking at flights and literally the cheapest I've found was 260 pounds. I'm glad I didn't consider a travel agent to be a career possibility. :) Hopefully we will get to leave for Florence on July 1st, which is also the day of my interview for my internship. I think I might email the lady who is interviewing me and see if I can move my appointment up so we can catch our 5 pm flight out of Heathrow. Hopefully it all works out because I'm dying to see Italy! We will be staying with Nicolette's boyfriend's family, who own a mansion in Florence. Saturday, they will be taking us to see Florence, and Saturday night, they are having a huge party with tons of home-cooked italian food! Sunday, we plan to take the train to Rome and then fly back to London on Monday morning to make it back for class. SOOO unbelievably excited!!!!
Well, Friday, Nicolette and I slept in until about 9:30ish and then went shopping for our next photo shoot. We have to style a male model this time and the requirements are buying something, either an article or clothing or an accessory, and somehow making it different; burning, bleaching, dying, ripping, sewing, anything to make it our own. I just bought a plain red and white stripe t-shirt, so I'm thinking about cutting it into a tanktop and putting badges (British word for pins) on it and cutting slits in it and safety pinning it up. I got a couple of things for myself at TopShop's super sale and some souvenirs. I got two shot glasses, one for me, and one for Duncan. Mine is smaller and says "Mind the Gap," which is what the say we you get off the tube. Duncan's is bigger and has the British flag on it. Pretty cute and only a pound each!
That afternoon, we went to the London Eye, the world's largest ferris wheel. It was really fun! We waited in line to get Nicolette's ticket and then we went through the line to get on the ride. We watched a 4D movie, before which was pretty awesome. It didn't take too long to get through the line, the only thing was, it was raining and a little chilly. We got in the capsule with about 15 other people and the ride was about 20-25 minutes to get all the way around. The only thing I wish would have been different would be having a "tour guide" to tell us what all of the buildings were. I recognized some of them, but a lot of them, I didn't know what they were, so I felt like I couldn't appreciate them as much. Still, though, really neat. Here are a few pictures from the ride. A lot of them weren't that great because of the rain on the outside of the capsule. Got a few god ones though!
Me looking like a tourist in front of the London Eye :)
View from the bottom; waiting in line.
On the way to the top!
Couldn't get a decent picture of Big Ben...
Pretty successful Friday. On Saturday, it was Nicolette's 20th birthday, so it was her day to decide what to do. We got up and went to the Natural History Museum to see the Sexual Nature exhibit. It was originally 8 pounds entry, but we got a student discount and got in for 4 pounds! Pretty interesting...random fact: before mating, male giraffes drink the female's urine to make sure it's fertile. We learned a lot of other crazy information, too. After the museum, we went to an American diner called Ed's. It was amazing; a bbq burger, fries, onion rings and root beer!! On their menu, the most expensive soda was root beer and in parentheses "imported from the US!" They literally have no root beer in Europe! The British couple next to us asked, "I hope you don't mind us asking, but what is root beer? It is made from the root of a plant or something?" We had to tell them it was soda, or the British words for soda, "fizzy drink." Then they saw us get a root beer float, which we explained was ice cream in the root beer and they almost had a fit! Too funny.
All of us at Ed's :)
After lunch/dinner, we went home to rest and get ready for the night. We wanted to go to Tiger Tiger again, because we knew it was free cover before 10. When we got there though, they wanted to charge us 5 pounds, but we threatened to leave, and they let us in for free. It was pretty lame when we got there, so we decided to see if we could get into another club for free. We found a promoter that got us into 2 different clubs and a free shot for 5 pounds, so we took the deal. The first club was not good, so we went to the second one and stayed for a little while. We got bored after about 45 minutes, so we went to one last club. We got in for free when the cover charge was supposed to be 15 pounds, and stayed and danced for most of the night. It was a lot of fun! And, we took the bus for most the way home, so when we got close to home, a taxi ride was only 6 pounds! I'd say a pretty successful night for the birthday girl. :)
Today, we slept in, fixed lunch, and now I'm catching up on homework. It's so beautiful out today, I want to be outside! I've got a bad cold though, so I'm staying in and resting up. Tomorrow is supposed to be really nice too, so we might go to a pool before class. That's all the updating I have for right now...so check back tomorrow! :)
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