Friday 7/27:
I could have slept forever, but my better senses told me to wake up around 10am and my friends and I decided to head over to Notting Hill/Portobello Market for some shopping and fresh-air. When we got there, we just walked around for a bit. Honestly, it wasn't anything special and I didn't have any cash on me so buying things was out of the question. We went to this place called "Mike's Cafe" for lunch and I had a cheese, tomato and wild mushroom quiche. It was SO good! After lunch we took the tube back toward home and went to this popular bookstore in the area. I ended up picking up a book called "Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America" I bought it for my Creative Nonfiction class but it's actually turning out to be a good read! After the bookstore we went back to the flats and got ready for the night. OPENING CEREMONIES FOR THE OLYMPICS! We went to this pub near our college called "The Globe" and it was so much fun. We got a table and had a perfect view of the TV and were having so much fun watching all of the performances! When all of the countries came on, we anxiously awaited for USA to come around and when it did, we cheered louder than ever! We even met some people from Wisconsin who were really nice and cheered with us and even started a "USA" chant. It was so awesome when Paul McCartney played "Hey Jude" and everyone in the bar sang along. We got home sometime around 2Am and it was so funny to log on facebook and see people's statuses from home where the recording of the ceremonies had only just started... it did make me feel pretty cool!
Saturday 7/28:
Coming off the "high" of the opening ceremonies, my roommate and I decided to have a more relaxed day and go hang out at Camden Market. It was my most successful shopping trip to date. I bought all of my souvenirs and even a few things for myself, and it wasn't expensive at all! I spent around 30GBP and got so much stuff I can't even believe it! I was very very proud of myself for finally doing the souvenir shopping I needed to do. (I'm still in search of some authentic olympic apparel because there's only a few authorized sellers of it near me! I will find it though!) After the market, I was exhausted. There was talk of going to a bar to watch some of the olympic events but instead I went to go see the new batman movie: The Dark Knight Rises. IT WAS AWESOME! The last 30 minutes of the movie made it completely worth it! It was so so good! After I got home, I ended up just falling asleep-- my last week of activity was finally catching up with me-- the trip as a whole is really catching up with me!
Sunday 7/29:
Only for the sake of making this a full "weekend post"...I went to Regent's College to use the free wi-fi and got some homework done and skyped my parents. I went home and just hung out at the flats with my friends and ate ben & jerry's ice cream while watching the swimming events for the Olympics!
Sorry there aren't any pictures with this post!
xoxox
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