Weekend at Bertolli's

Where was I? Right. First weekend in London and I loved every second of it, including the sleeping.

Friday:
Kelly, Amanda and I got together around 10:30am to plan our trip to Paris because we realised if we narrow it down to just the stuff we want to do and stay in a hostel it's a lot cheaper than going through the tour company. We ended up watching AVPM on youtube and drinking Schmirnoff Ice and Absolut Rasberry while we talked about random stuff like you do as college students.
Also, we were going to meet up with some friends of Amanda's that live in the city as well but it turned out to be a game night at the pub. Both football and rugby on different levels of the pub so we left and found a little gelateria nearby in Chinatown and it literally evaporated in my mouth it was so creamy and light.
We wandered around Chinatown and found a shopping center with an arcade/bowling alley/movie theatre that took up 2-3 levels. We walked around for a little while but didn't really do much but wander around Piccadilly Circus and they took some photos.


Saturday:
Another wonderful day, we met again in the morning to go shopping on Oxford St. and we found New Look, which had some nice but cheap stuff, as well as Primark, goodish but very inexpensive. I bought myself some rings, a shirt, a purse and some Herculean sandals for warmer weather. It all cost around 20 pounds which is what I normally spend when I go on a shopping spree at home so I don't feel too bad about it, especially since I decided I'm not going to buy anything else until March unless I really need it for whatever reason.
We found a pub advertising an "Authentic British Pub" off Oxford St. and the food wasn't badly priced for what they were serving so we went in and had rum and cokes. I had some lasagna that my mouth is still recovering from and it was good. The pub was really nice and clean and seemed like a regular hang out for locals and foreigners alike, didn't hurt that it wasn't crowded either.
Afterwards we headed back to Nido and Amanda and I watched Beauty and the Beast then we all headed over to Sainsbury's to do a little grocery shopping. It was another nice day spent with quality people.

Sunday:
Jet lag hit today and I ended up sleeping until noon because I could just not wake up for the life of me. After I woke up I had a breakfast bar and watched some Criminal Minds, looked for the classrooms of all my classes and tried to figure out what I should bring tomorrow. I just finished up a sketch from one of the short stories we're supposed to read for my Illustration class and figured I'll do a couple more before I have it Wednesday.

I'll leave what happens tomorrow for Tuesday when next we meet again. It is the first day of classes though so I'm nervous and excited. Also, we don't have a classroom yet so I'm really hoping it says it before I get on the tube to go to the City campus....

TAFN