fire alarms, ramen, being lost in london...i had a busy day

so what if i wanted to take a shower at 2:00 in the afternoon????? thats what i thought, well somebody didnt want me to take a shower at that time and those people were in 5B. i was almost done with my shower when i heard the fire alarm go off and we periodically have firealarm test and they stop after three or four times...but no not this time!! so i heard people start running towards the door because we have to be out in seven minutes or less otherwise the fire brigade gets mad. so i start yelling "noooooooooooooooo, wait for me!!! i am coming!!!!!!!" and then i heard people laughing at me cause they knew i was still in the shower. so since i didnt have time to change i had to just throw my bathrobe on and truck it outside with everyone else. it was horrible. we were outside for about 20 minutes with everyone from kingston bridge house. i felt a little better when another girl came out in her robe too. but i was so upset!!! i wanted that place to be burning to the ground if i had to be outside in my robe with sopping yet hair...ugh i was mad. turns out it wasnt even a fire but the smoke detector went off because a boy burnt something while cooking....if i ever find out who it was.....

so the reason that i was getting ready was because we had a plan. and that plan was to go to chinatown and buy some ramen noodles. we were all craving them horribly bad. so we bought our travel card hoped on the train, got off in london waterloo went down to the underground and rode the bakerloo line till picadilly circus and headed off to chinatown. two blocks and a few turns and we were there!!! we were so excited! the big pretty archway greeting us saying "welcome and enjoy the ramen". it was a perfect sight for our weary feet.

we ended up buying 10 pounds or about $20 on ramen (yes its that good). we decided that we didnt (as in we i mean my flatmates amaya and cassie) want to come all the way into central london and not do something else so we decided to go to the zoo. so about an hour we rolled on into the zoo only to discover that it closed in 10 minutes. we were heartbroken especially since we could see the giraffes inside the gate. well we decided to walk through regeant's park since that is where the zoo is located. walking and sometimes skipping with our ramen through the park we stumbled on a place called "the honest sausage" we thougt what a silly name, lets buy some water...and we did. little did we know that after this we would try to find our way home and we wouldnt get there for another four hours.

coming out of the park we instantly made the wrong turn and didnt know it till somewhere downt the road, we finally found a bus station and since that was the only one around we got on it even if it did take us even farther from home, we knew there was a train station up there. well we missed our stop and had to truck it back to the train station, then that station was closed and we waited for 20 minutes on the platform till we figured that out. then we had to go to the next nearest train station which wasnt near and it was dark by now and people kept eyeing our ramen. finally we found a station got on the train and it ended up skipping a whole bunch of scheduled stops and we didnt know what was going on at all. eventually we got off at a station that had an underground and we got back on bakerloo line, back to waterloo and then back to kingston. we headed for home at 4:45 and walked into our rooms around 9:00. we were exhausted, so we had some ramen!