Eurotrip: London

Yea, yea, I know I've been slacking. Vacation and sickness trumped blogging. But here I am, about to stampede you with Euro stories. I was a big fat nerd and kept a travel journal for the trip just so I could tell you as many dirty details as possible. So lets go back almost a month to September 10: Departure Date. We woke up early and finished packing. My mom picked us up at 11 and we met my grandparents at Beef o Brady's for lunch. Got to the airport around 1 and departed home around 3:20. A quick flight to JFK.. only about an hour and a half. Their airport is f'in confusing! We had a 4 hour layover so me and Derek chainsmoked for about a half hour and then had some really expensive BK before departing at 9:30. Seven and a half hours later we landed at Heathrow at 9:30 am local time to a very cloudy day. Heathrow was extremely easy to navigate and we decided to cab it to the hotel. Cabbies in Europe are insane. Beyond the fact that we're driving on the wrong side of the road, they squeeze into these little spaces that you think cars are not meant to go. After a long and winding trip, we finally arrived at Luna & Simone Hotel, our home for the night. We were too early to check in so we dropped our bags and walked to a nearby pub and drank Staropramen, a Czech beer. Very skunky, but the boys enjoyed it. Around noon, we were finally able to check in to our room. 3 small twin beds in a tiny ass room. Oh and one bathroom. Fuck me. To make matters worse, all 3 of us had upset stomachs due to diet and time change. Needless to say, it was a stinky 24 hours lmao!

Most of London was spent on the Big Bus tour. We rode around London for about 5-6 hours and practically saw everything (except Buckingham Palace because the boys were being big whiny douchebags) Here is a pic of Big Ben and the Eye of London:

I wanted to shop in Harrods (a hugeass department store) but again I got whimpering and complaining so we basically rode around on the bus all day, had shitty fish & chips and tried to not kill each other. We got back to the hotel around 6 and the boys immediately passed out. I knew this was a bad idea, but after watching tv for an hour I drifted off as well. I woke up around 8, feeling like absolute dogshit. Having no water for 12 hours makes Jessica a very crabby girl. So after a tearful half hour of trying to wake up Derek, we finally walked to the local convenient store and grabbed some waters and ate some crackers courtesy of the "Books and Crackers" bag we made Gweed bring. After long showers, we all passed around midnight.

On Sunday, we woke up at 8 and headed down for the included breakfast. I think we were all pleasantly surprised.. it included eggs, very yummy bacon, baked beans (which I declined), toast and tea. After each of us took another trip to the bathroom, we checked out, took some pics by the nearby phonebooth and caught a cab to St Pancras train station. We had about an hour and half to kill before our train left for Paris so we walked across the street to King's Cross station and took our pictures at Platform 9 3/4. For those of you who are ignorant to the wonders of Harry Potter, this is how Harry got to his wizard school, Hogwarts each year. Anyways, around 12:30 we boarded our train!