potter was in london...no, not harry, but jessica!!!!

a some guy that we saw...we noticed his shirt and knew at that moment we need a picture with him

OKEE DOKEY!!!! so it has been just a little while since i have posted and something major happened, and that happening was having my friend from back home (a majority of you already know her) JESSICA POTTER!!! she is going to school in spain for the school and she came over for a long weeknd and we had just the best time ever. here is a breakdown of our swee sweet adventures.

ok well she and nils, he is guy from germany that went to school in spain last semester that i meet when i was visiting jessica, came in very late at night in cenral london at liverpool street. anyways i wasnt really excited to go in and get them by myself since the underground would be closed and since the first time i was ever on a central bus i got crazy lost i was a little hesitant to take the buses so late at night with people depending on me....so courtney came with me!!!! courtney and i went in a little early to go play around in central before we had to grab the other two and when we were walking around we ended up in the "theatreland" district in and around picadilly circus and leicester square that houses all the theatres for the most part. ok well long story short we were outside the theatre that has equus playing it just got out. for those of you who dont know it is starring daniel radcliffe, aka harry potter, so courtney and i went to the stage door and saw him. and he is short. but that was a little brush with fame...and i am going to go see the play in about 2 weeks anyways. should be good. if you want to check it out http://www.equustheplay.com/ it is for sure anything but a easy going play, its very heavy.

ok i am gonna pick this blog up a bit... so we grabbed nils and jessica and raced our booties back to london waterloo train station and grabbed the last train out to surbiton. now surbiton is about a 35 minute walk back to my flat...good thing it was a semi nice out. once we all got back we had some tea and buttered noodles and hit the sack.

jess and i in front of parliament

so friday was uber tourist day see the sights kind of thing. we bumped into waterloo crossed the thames walking towards big ben and parliament with the london eye behind us. we crossed to westminster abbey, walked through st. jame's park towards buckingham palace. when we got to the palace i we all noticed that there were union jack flags EVERYWHERE. i looked up to the flag pole on top of the palace and instead of the normal union jack the queen's coat of arms was flying indicating that she was home.....that is about as close as i have ever been to the queen.

all the flags along the mall coming up to buckingham palace. i think she was talking to some other foreign guy cause there were other flags up as well...

**** side note, my flatmate went to hampton court palace with her father and friends the other day, and they sure picked a good day to go since prince charles made a surprise visit...and he totally talked to them, im jealous*****

(hahaha...what a funny picture!)

from the palace we found a gaurd to take our picture with, ate lunch in trafalgar square (fish and chips no less...the same place i took mary when she was here), jumped down to kensington gardens and found the peter pan statue, walked through harrods, went up to king's cross to see platform 9 3/4, and then over to the tower of london and the tower bridge. it was the most criss cross travel across london i have ever down. it was full of fun but totally tiring!!!!

jessia and i in front of tower bridge...

we hoped a train back to kingston and got ready to go out. jess had with her a homemade karaoke cd so we jumped around and danced to that while nils just looked at us and shook his head. too bad but nils wasnt feeling to hot so he stayed in while we all went out. we danced the night away and then came back home. it was fun.

taking a break from dancing...

the next day nils had to go back to germany (yeah a very short trip..but it was a lot cheaper to fly out on saturday than sunday) so jessica and i dropped him off at the train station at liverpool street and we went and grabbed lunch at a place called wagamama in leicester square. its this really good japanese food, where you sit at these really long tables that you share with others and you eat really fancy ramen. its sweet check it out.... http://wagamama.com/ but we couldnt dilly daddle too long cause we had to make it to the apollo victoria theatre to go see Wicked!!!! i know i know i already saw this play but it is soooooooooo amazing i could see it every day. it may sound a little over the edge but i am so serious about it. it was won more tony's than i can count and the lead in the london production is said to be the best Elphaba (the main character's name) of all the Elphabas (does that makes sense???) anyways its about the wicked witch of the west (elphaba) and glinda the good before dorothy shows up in oz. its amazing and i think everyone should go if they get a chance!!!!! http://www.wickedthemusical.co.uk/

the front of the theatre that wicked is playing at...

after that we hit a train home and went out again...still fun but not as fun as the night before. sunday rolled up and we had to get jessica to the train station so she could hop to stansted airport. we got her there in time, we said our goodbyes and then she was gone (boo). but all in all it was a really good weekend and as she left amaya (my flatmate) had two friends arrive for the week on their spring break. which was really fun having them here...they are really nice. we ended up doing a jack the ripper walking tour. it was really amazing...and detailed. i thought that i knew a fairly good amount of information about jack the ripper, but there was a bunch more to it than i knew. and as of right now there are still 171 different suspects that they have for jack the ripper. did you know he was the world's first serial killer...sucked to be a prostitute in whitechapel in those days.

ok well i have gone on for too long that is for sure so i think i will end it........

now.