Saturday, 1 September 2012

When You Wish Upon a Star...



…dreams come true.   Well they certainly did for me today.  And some lucky girl on the Thames.

I had orientation today. I experienced jet lag. Dreadfully boring day.  Except for the fact that I’m in London.  My dream destination hasn’t really felt like what I imagined, until yesterday.  I was walking out of the Westminster tube station and I looked ahead and saw the London Eye.  Bring on the goofy grin. If that wasn’t enough, we turned right and I practically had heart palpitations. Big Ben. 

First tourist moment, me standing on the corner for a good three minutes to get this photo.




After my heart rate returned to normal, we went to dinner at a cute little Italian restaurant. That’s right, first meal in London, fish and chips? Bangers and mash? Nope, gnocchi with marinara.  It was delicious, as was the fact that I didn’t have to leave a tip! 

As we were walking back to the tube, there seemed to be some Brits causing quite the ruckus.  Being curious children, we of course had to check into it.  4 guys standing on a ledge holding a giant yellow banner.  Which after the use of some backwards reading skills we determined spelled out “Will you marry me?”  There were also some random people holding glow sticks. Oh yeah, and 8 Americans peaking their heads out from under the banner.  Yeah, that was us, the ones ooh-ing and aah-ing when she said yes.  On their private boat. It was adorable.  

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