The Chance of a Lifetime...

I got behind!!

My hair straightener blowing up completely threw me off track and I'm really behind in my blogging!! Or at least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!
Wednesday night we went to the best pizza place ever- Pizza Express!! Soo yummy!! Then to a pub where we met some of Sara's friends. We missed the England v Croatia game but apparently we didn't miss much b/c it sucked and England lost!! We hung out for a while and came home relatively early.
Thursday we went into St. Albans and did some shopping- all of us bought new shirts to wear out Sat. Night (more about that later), other than that we didn't do much. On the way home we picked up some yummy fish and chips from the chippy that we used to go to. Ate that and just hung out for the evening.
Friday Erin and I took the train into London to see some sights, soooooooo we saw Trafalgar Square, Nelson's Column (not to be confused with Christopher Columbus in Barcelona!!) Haha, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Leicester Square, we had tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace- where we did not see the changing of the gaurd b/c the gaurds had been bad and weren't allowed to change!! (Just kidding)Covent Garden- my favorite!!! Some dude approached us and asked about our hair ha, turned out he was trying to sell this package- hair cut etc at a 5 star salon, day getting beautified at a studio and then a photo shoot, and then a years worth of free entry into the London Nightclubs! Apparently its all worth £500 and he was selling it for £50. We told him we don't have that kind of money and wouldn't even be able to utilize the free nightclubs, we bartered with him a little and got it all for £25 each. I still didn't quite trust him so I borrowed his phone called the salon...the dude who answered wasn't too impressed w/ my question, but we booked appointments on the 27th...we'll see how that goes!! After wandering around Covent Garden for a while we decided to go to St. Pauls Cathedral and climb to the top of the bell tower- just to makesure that we go up the 3 tallest in the world!! (Already did the other 2). Well it was 3.50pm and it closed at 4. Note to self- check times before doing stuff. so we went home. We hung out at home and watched some movies- in preparation for a wild night Sat!!
Saturday- Erin and I went into St Albans to go to the market...mooched around there for a while, walked around the St. Albans Abbey/Cathedral and then took the bus to visit my Grandad. Hung out with him for a while then walked back past my old house and Laura and Saras old house to meet Laura at her aunts. We went home and made a stir fry- Sara was supposed to be cooking it but screamed and ran away as soon as the veggies hit the pan! Had a drink with dinner, turned out to be the begining of a rediculously alcoholic night!! After dinner we all got ready- I borrowed Laura's straighteners ha... We headed out around 7.30, picked up Laura's b/f Dru on the way and went to Katie's house warming party. It was BYOB so the girls took a bottle of vodka and I took a small coca cola bottle of rum :). We didn't know anyone there so we were pretty anti-social and very drunk very fast! At about 10.30 we climbed into taxis and went to St Albans...I ended up in a taxi full of strangers, one of which was from Wisconsin- how crazy is that?! So we arrived at The Peahen and I had conveniently taken what was left of my rum with me hahaha so I got a coke and made my own drink :) I'm thrifty...or broke. Paul M said he would meet me out and said he was at a different pub so I went to find him. For some reason I thought he said he was at O'Neils so I begged the bouncer to let me in w/out waiting in line haha, a few people weren't too happy about that! When I got inside I realized that he was at Lloyds haha so I left ASAP and the bouncer shook his head at me and was like "where now?!" So I told him and he pointed me in the right direction....my good charm didn't work for me at Lloyds, they wouldn't let me in. So I headed back to The Peahen. Eventually Paul met me there and we all headed out to a club. We had a pretty crazy fun night and stayed until they turned on all the lights at 3.30am! Good times!! We took a cab home and when we got there I decided I wanted to sleep on the couch, wait, more like a love seat...pretty small haha. The girls thought I'd go to bed pretty soon but uhm I woke up on the couch at 9am hahaha. Then I went to bed until noon! We got up and sat around for a while re-capping the night before venturing out to a sunday pub roast lunch. Yummy!! Katie, her friend Dan and another guy Darren met us there and we hung out for a while. Afterwards we decided to go home and be hungover on the couch for the rest of the day. And that's what we did. The next time we were brave enough to leave the house was at night to go to Dru's pub for "take-out night" where you can order whatever delivery food you want and eat it there with everyone. Soo I ordered a spring roll from the Chinese- this thing was massive!! Like the size of 5 american chinese spring rolls!!- and I ordered a na'an bread and sauce from the Indian. Yummy!! Then we went home and put in another movie but I went to bed.
Monday we eventually decided that we didn't really want to do anything so Sara dropped Dave and I off in St. Albans and we sat in Verulamium Park and hung out haha. We saw the Roman ruins and I fed some geese grass!! Ha!! I love ducks!! We watched a school of little kids play, they were chasing eachother around the bench we were sitting on- soo cute! Sara picked us up about 5 hours later...I can't believe we sat there that long!! Went home, cooked some dinner, got ready and went to a pub in Hemel Hempstead to meet up w/ Sarah W, Katie S and Dan T from school. Hadn't seen them in about 2 1/2 years so it was good to catch up.
Tuesday/today, Dave and I got up, packed our packs and Sara drove us to Luton airport. We flew on a really quick flight- like 40mins, to Amsterdam! Dave's uncle, Marco, picked us up from the airport- its always great to be met at the airport!! And he drove us to their house before going back to work. Dave's aunt, Kristy came home after a while and we sat and talked with her about our trip- she travelled when she was our age too, and travels a lot for business. Marco came home w/ their eldest son, Luca, 7. We hung out for a while before going to dinner at a great Thai place in Delft. I've never eaten Thai before and this place was perfecrt b/c you don't order, they just bring you what they are serving!! So we had a soup and then a plate w/ 4 different types of dishes on it- all very good. Then they bring grapes for dessert...very good. Now we're home and I'm going to read before bed.
This took forever to type...you'd better leave some comments!!
G'night from Amsterdam!
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posted by Kirby @ 1:33 PM