Lauren Goes to London: For lack of a better title... Monday 8/6/12

Still reeling from my superbly unproductive weekend, I was determined to do at least one touristy/sightseeing thing everyday during my last week.
My roommate had mentioned in passing that she was interested in seeing Kensington Palace and I took that as my opportunity to get out of my flat for awhile and be touristy.
After school, we stopped for lunch at my most favorite restaurant ever: Nando's. It's portuguese food and it is AMAZING but super filling- walking home was quite the struggle.
We got to Kensington Palace around 2:30 and the sun was shining, we walked for a little bit in the park (mostly because we were lost...) but then we decided to go inside the Palace.
The palace was split into four different exhibits: one on Queen Victoria, one where you could walk through the King's apartments, one where you could walk through the Queen's apartments and an exhibit on Princess Diana.
Overall, it was really interesting being able to walk through the exhibits and learn a bit more about the royals that lived there. The palace was beautiful on the outside and I learned that Will and Kate are working to make Kensington Palace their new home which is pretty exciting!
I had hoped that the Princess Di exhibit would have been more extensive, but it was still really interesting to see her dresses and some snippets of her life at the Palace.
After the palace, I ran to St. Pancras international rail station to go to the Olympic store and pick up a TEAM GB shirt for myself because it just simply had to be done!
And of course, like most of my nights here, it ended with homework until my eyes nearly fell out of my head!