I woke up at 10 again today, but Nicole slept till 12 so I guess I was positively early ;D When I asked her how late she stayed up last night, she responded 'Um, let's not talk about that...' :]
So, once we were both up and showered and ready, it was adventure time!
First up was King's Cross and Platform 9 3/4. We walked to platforms 9 and 10, but there's no barrier between them. The train tracks are in the middle of the two. We were both commenting on this and decided to ask a worker. So Nicole says 'I have the biggest tourist question ever...' and the guy responded 'No problem, you just follow that walkway to the outside of the station and it's on your left.' We thanked him and laughed all the way out there. I wondered how many times they get asked that... However I think it got mived since there's some construction going on in the station.
Then we went to the M&M's World store in Leicester Square (pronounced Lester). Goodness, that place was huge! It had 4 floors and about a thousand people wandering around inside, it was a madhouse. It was fun to look at the things they had, though, and Nicole and I both got bags of MMs. I got the UK mix, red white and blue. There was also Champions mix (FC Barcelona colours), and the colours for Manchester United and Chelsea FC. It was cool to look at them all.
After that we went to a big gift shop because Nicole wanted to get some presents for people, and I got a Keep Calm and Eat a Cupcake sticker - it's on my computer now. I like it :D There are so many parodies of the Keep Calm posters, I saw a Keep Calm and Drink a Beer poster, but unfortunately they didn't make those in shirts. I wanted to get ones for my uncles ;]
Next up was Abbey Road. Nicole went there with her class, which was nice because otherwise I'd've had no idea how to get there... Even though I didn't have 3 other people to walk across the zebra with, it was still fun to go there and walk across. Nicole showed me where the studio is - it's under construction right now. She signed the wall when she went there with her class and I signed today. It was fun. I also got an Abbey Road mug from the Beatles Coffee Shop right next to the tube station - I'm excited to use it :D
When we were done there, it was about 5.30 so we came back to the res hall and had some dinner. We both had schoolwork to do, so we've been working on that since dinner. I did laundry today, so it's exciting to have a lot of clean outfits to choose from again :D
Back to class tomorrow - ugh. I want it to stay the weekend...
Till then,
-Carly B
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