London's Calling

To begin, the title of this post is a shout out to my little Caroline's blog (http://carolinetakinglondon.blogspot.co.uk/?view=timeslide&m=1). Seemed appropriate since I got to visit her this weekend!

Friday

I left Ariccia for London at about 7:45 in the morning. The airport was a fun experience. Budget airlines do not assign seats so people line up about 30 minutes before they board and people literally run to the plane to get a seat where they want. Fun start to the weekend for sure! When I arrived I had missed my shuttle into London, which I had carefully planned to avoid that problem. I finally reached Victoria station and met up with Kate and Caroline. We sat and told stories. So much fun! Caroline and I went and attempted to shop. We both got super cute new shoes which we wore out that night. After dinner we went and met Kate and another graduated Kappa. We had difficulty finding the bar we were supposed to meet them at and Caroline and i stopped to ask so nice (and cute!) police officers for directions. They were all taking turns guessing where we were from. Apparently Caroline and I sound Australian or Canadian??!! When we finally made it we had a fun time out on the town with our sorority sisters!

Saturday

 Caroline had to get up to go to Oxford at about 9 on Saturday so I decided to wander around London, And by wander I mean walk more than normal people ever would. I had the time of my life exploring the beautiful city. I discovered this awesome exhibit at the Fashion and Textiles Museum and spent a while looking at that. 

I found a store that sold French Macaroons and got a few of those. I met up with Caroline and we explored a beautiful department store called Fortnum and Mason. It was 5 stories and amazing, way out of my price range but a girl can look! After that we grabbed dinner. We ended up at an Italian restaurant that had fried calamari. I received  hilarious looks when I asked for marinara sauce to dip the calamari in. Our waitress was so intrigued she came back and actually asked why I did this. We ended the night by getting a bottle of wine and trying all the macaroons I had gotten. Perfect relaxing night!

Sunday

Sunday morning I had to part ways with Caroline. Very sad, but we are going to Paris soon so our European adventures aren't over yet! I went to the airport and sat around for a while attempting to call my parents on Viber. Finally I headed back to Ariccia after a very fun weekend!