"When a man grows tired of London, he has grown tired of life"
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Trip to London
The best way to start out the New Years, I think, is TO GO TO LONDON!! I left with Adriana and her WEP group (like my Rotary Group)on January 3rd at 6:30 in the morning. We took a bus to the French shore where we got on a Ferry that took us and our tour bus to England. From there, it was 3 more hours to get into London. But we also stopped in Canterby to see a Cathedral there and buy postcards and do what we wanted. Then we got lost looking for our hotel and were finally set free in London around 6 PM. Adriana, Mariana, Paula, Hugo, Diego, Marcelo, Finn were my bus buddies (or mainly the people I hung out with on the Bus)I'll try to upload a photo, if I can steal it from Adriana's blog since she won't send them to me!! (salope!)

When we arrived, I was dying for Chinese food but Adriana talked me into KFC because its a lot cheaper (especially in England) so we went with Paula and Mariana (two of Adriana's friends who are also from Brazil) to the nearest KFC. Paula went out with me later that night to look for a club but the woman who we asked gave us crappy directions and we finally gave up looking around 11 and just went back to our hotel. That was all of Monday.

Tuesday morning I went with Adriana to purchase tickets to the Phantom of the Opera that is showing exclusively in London but the tickets were #40 each and that is $80 so I decided not to buy any. Adriana, Marcelo, and Paula each bought ones though. N' we hopped on our tour bus that we had brought all the way from Belgium to go visit Madame Tiussou (the famous wax museum) and then we were set free for the day to do as we pleased. Most of us went to see the Big Ben and do the Tour of London by double decker bus. London Bridge, The London Tower, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, Saint Paul's Cathedral, umm... and lots of things. Got to see the guards with the big black plume hats that are not allowed to move. So beautiful!! :D or maybe I just think they are beautiful because I am intimidated by their important official uniforms! ;) That night the people who bought tickets to the Opera, went to that, and I hung out with Mariana. Guy seeing *ahem* I mean sight seeing. Then we went back to our hotel and got online for about 2 hours to talk to some of Mariana'a family and friends back in Brazil (Eu falie com o cara mais bonito do Brasil lorenco!! :D) (sorry if I spelled his name wrong)

On the day we returned, the 5th, we first went to the London Tower which is a biiiig castle overlooking Tower bridge (the famous bridge that has 2 stories and the bottom one opens to let boats pass through) before scooting off to Picadilly Circus to do some quick shopping before heading back to Belgium.

The bus ride home was probably my favorite part of the trip.. but class just ended so I'll add more info. later

*ciao*

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Well for the first hour or so I slept and bummed around because I was sad that we were already leaving and I was thinking about stupid things that I shouldn't have been worrying about on my TRIP TO LONDON! But then once we crossed the French border I came around and everyone sang and danced (on the bus which made us all feel really drunk because we kept falling over whenever we went around a corner) We went around the bus asking all the people of different nationalities to sing their national anthem, Adriana and I danced like Britney Spears, I sang "Baby Got Back" with Finn, and Hugo held my hand and sang to me but it was in Portugese so I didn't understand it!!! Sooo great!