March 16th - London to Ireland

We woke up really early this morning to go to the cafe and get to go before  the taxi came. Derek and I got our laundry done but our jeans were still a little damp on the pockets. Oh well, they got packed up haha. 

Our train was delayed and once the platform was announced, everyone was running. They ended up hooking two trains up together so it was chaotic trying to figure out where our seats where when there was two of everything! Finally settled after having to walk through a few coaches with all our luggage. A girl sat with us, Sam, and she is from Dublin! She hung out with us for the rest of the trip to Dublin including the 3 hour ferry ride. It's my first time on a boat for a prolonged time. It's definitely different! The food was really good on the ferry, I had steak and ale pie. Wish I could get a legit pie back home! 

Were finally on our last country. I can't believe were already been through 6 countries!! I am excited to just chill in one country for a week!! We got a taxi to our hotel. It's the same hotel that we stayed at 3 years ago. The taxi driver was a wee bit crazy! And he told us he's taking tomorrow off to drink. Haha. I'm so stoked to experience St Paddys day! 

Mc and I headed off to city centre to go to pennys :) sadly, they closed 5 min after we got there. So we grabbed some stuff and walked around for a little. We went to Carroll's to get some stuff to wear for st Paddys day. After we went back to the hotel for some "dinner" which was chips and dessert haha. I'm so excited to be back in Ireland!!

March 15th - London

We woke up, sadly, I'm really just not feeling well. The pillow is down and I think I'm allergic to something else as well, maybe the cover. It's different here in Europe because they only have a bottom fitted sheet, they don't have the flat sheet on top.  

We went to our cafe, but we got it to go so that we could get to the London eye (it's a Ferris wheel that takes 30 min to go around). We needed to get there at open cus we had the Stonehenge tour at 11. Sadly, we got in line and ran out of time to go up and still get to our tour on time. So that was a huge waste! 

We got to the hotel that was the meeting place for the tour. We were there a few minutes early and sat on the floor since there weren't any chairs...and then we got yelled at for it lol. Apparently you can't sit down at nice hotels ha. 

In the tour, we got to go to bath. It's the village with the discovered Roman baths. It was so pretty!! It's the only hot spring in all of Great Britain. I really enjoyed the tour of this! It's just amazing how everything was created and how well things stand. This was created by 76 A.D. That's insane!!! 

Next we went to Stonehenge. It was amazing. Some of those stones weigh as much as two adult African elephants. It's crazy how they could lift it up and creat the circle without any pulleys or cranes! They have guards that stand by there all day and all night to make sure the idiots don't mess up the stones by carving in them and such. There's teenagers that try to break in during the middle of the night. Also there are people who try to do weird rituals there and they get kicked out. The Druids are still around and allowed to do their rituals but they have to call ahead and schedule it. I didn't quite understand what they do but they do wear the traditional dress when they go there. 

On the way back, we stopped in the village of Lacock. This is where some Harry potter was filmed and other English movies. They're not allowed to have modern technology visible from the fronts of the houses so it's the most old English town there is. Really cool!  We also saw the old thatcher roofs where the saying eavesdropping comes from. That was interesting!! Also, a village has to have a pub in order to be considered a village lol. 

We got home very late and ended up packing until after 1 am. So tired!

March 14th - London

We needed to find a place for breakfast since our apt wasn't affiliated with any hotels. After walking around in almost a circle, we found a little cafe. It was amazing, the pastries were so good. We decided we would come here for breakfast the rest of the time in London! 

We walked until we found the hop in hop off stop. It wasn't as hard as in Amsterdam to find for sure! London is gorgeous. It went over mostly what we saw already though in the night your so it was a little redundant. We ended up having to switch between three buses cus of driver switch and an issue with the bus. 

We stopped and saw the Westminster Abbey where William and Kate got married. It was really cool to be there and remembering the pictures. Then we walked to buckingham palace. We took some cool pictures there and watched the guards. 

Mom , Mc and I had a tea party to attend so we left the boys to go onto the Winston Churchill war house. The tea party was lovely. We had sandwiches, champagne, desserts, and tea. I had the UK fresh mint tea. We felt so out of place here since we didn't know a lot of the stuff like the strainer to go over your cup so you didn't get loose leaf teas in your cup. It was a lot of fun and good laughs!

Then we went shopping on Oxford street. Always fun. They had every store ever there. Mostly everything was expensive since h&m, so we went there! Then there was a second h&m down the street, so we went there to check if they had the maxi dress I wanted. It was the grand opening that day which was really cool! We got our photo taken at the photo booth! We also went to Nike right after to get Derek his Manchester United soccer gear. Got him the sweatpants, polo shirt and a scarf. I also got him a lebron shirt. Surprised him good for sure!! 

Then we went back to the London Hilton on park lane to go to trader Vic's for dinner. We had a social living deal and the food was just okay. Probably won't go back there! 

March 13th - Amsterdam to London

We had to travel back to Brussels to get to to the channel to go to London. I didn't mind since we were able to get another Belgium waffle ;) 

Our train ended up being cancelled so we had to get the next one. The wait was annoying for sure! You couldn't even really tell that we went in the ocean! 

We got into London and got a taxi to our apt. It was a nice apt! Two bedroom two bath and also had two beds in the living room. I came to find out later that the shower was a little wonky in our bathroom though. 

We dropped off our luggage quickly as a taxi was waiting for us outside. We went on the night tour of London. It was really pretty was but it was a long day so I was glad when it was over and we went home!