The Past Week

Mom and Jul were here for the past week and we had so much fun together!  We went to Regent Street on Thursday night when they arrived, and they were having the Christmas lighting all along the street, so we saw a gospel choir and some boy band we'd never heard of and then they turned on these huge stars made of lights that they have strung across the street.  We also went to Hamley's, the FAO Schwartz of London, and they turned on the lights in front of their store and had fake snow blowing down.  It was really nice.  On Friday, I had to work in the morning, but then I met them at the Tate Modern and Mom got to see St. Paul's Cathedral.  We also went to Camden Markets, walked around my neighborhood, went to Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben.  And we saw the Remembrance Day Procession, which is basically Veteran's Day.  There was a huge parade where all of the veterans just walk and there were so many of them.  When I had to work on Monday, Mom got to go to the British Museum and walk to Covent Garden and Jul saw the Dali exhibit and did some shopping.  We all went to Primark for some cheap shopping and we had really good meals while they were here.  We had pub food a few times (fish and chips and stuff), and we got Italian food at Spaghetti House, Dim Sum at Dim T, Dutch pancakes at My Old Dutch, French food at Cote, and Chinese, Thai and Indian food at the Camden Markets.  On Tuesday, I had the day off of work and we took a bus trip to Bath, Stonehenge and the Cotswalds.  The Cotswalds are basically a bunch of cute little old towns where they still have thatched roofs and cobblestone roads.  We went to Lacock and basically had just enough time to walk around the main "block".  Then we went on to Bath and went into the Roman Baths.  I wanted to find an internet cafe so I could sign up for my classes for the spring semester (I got all of the ones I wanted!) and Mom and Jul wanted to do some shopping.  Then the bus went to Stonehenge and it rained a little bit while we were on the bus, but we saw two rainbows and it stopped before we got off.  Stonehenge is pretty cool.  You aren't allowed to walk around inside the circle, but you can walk along the outside.  I'm really glad we got to go there and see it.  It was really fun to have Mom and Jul here and Dan is coming in another week!