Soy

I was grinning ear to ear while landing into London.

English. Pale people. Not just espresso when you order cafe. Thai restaraunts. My feet are back to their normal size. Suitcase instead of pack. Fall weather. Iced drinks. Air conditioning. Paved sidewalks. Trains. And the ability to order anything I want with soy milk. soooooo happy!!!!!!!

seriously, i couldn't stop smiling yesterday. i knew where i was going. i knew the people i was staying with. i was finally familiar!!! ahhh!!! and i met two girls at two separate times who live in chicago. im close im close! i am so close to being home! but now that i am back to familiarity i am okay. i could most certainly live in london (as long as i worked here because it is so expensive). i looooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeee it here.

i went and had the most amazing soy chai latte ever with my dear dear friend lauren from high school who i hadn't seen in forever. we played catch-up and it was awesome. she is here to study with her school at kings college. she is taking a harry potter class. i love her.

the rest of the evening was spent visiting with my hosts who i stayed with before and the other couchsurfers that they are hosting. paul and lesley are so wonderful and it is so great to be around them again and have familiar warm faces.

today i went to the tower bridge which for a while i though was london bridge. after i had spent nearly a roll on this i realized that this is much smaller than it should have been and saw on my map that it was indeed not the london bridge. BIUT it did put me right by the Tower of London which is the one tourist attraction I was excited about and was going to lay down the cash to do a tour of. it was 13£ and worth every cent. There was a free tour by one of the wardens and then they had other scheduled events throught the day you could see or not. And it wasn't just for the tower, but everything within the tower walls. So I pretty much spent the whole day there and it was awesome. Got to see and hear about some pretty gory and bloody events, which is always cool. I really really really wish jason could have been there with me. I kept on wanting to say "whishaaww!!" and put my hands together to make a giant hang ten sign. oh jason i miss you.

Then i decided just to take the first tube line and randomly picked a stop. I ended up at Oxford Circus which is like the magnificent mile or times square of london. But this also meant that there was an apple store nearby. Hence, the blogs. But I am getting pretty darn tired of standing right now so i think i am going to say cheers. But i really do love london oh so much. Lets all move here,