London: Day Four

London: Day Four
April 23, 2005
Mission: Turn 21 in the planet's coolest town, while having a great time

Thus we awoke on April 23. We headed to Queen Anne's Park and then Buckingham palace to see the changing of the guard. Pretty hot. We went through Green park to get to Pickadilly Lane, which was an interesting place. Took the tube to Liecester Square (pronounced Lester Square... yeah.) hopped out and looked for some good fish and chips. We got some all you can eat Chinese Buffet instead. Went to a net cafe and checked my email, got some birthday messages (whoop!) and one particularly excellent note from the west coast. Grazie everybody!

Flowers in Queen Anne's Park


Buckingham Palace from Queen Anne's Park


Dave enjoying the gardens in front of Buckingham Palace


Buckingham Palace, looks kind of solemn and sad compared to the White House... could just be too gray.


A monument in front of Buckingham with the city office towers visable behind

From Liecester Square we headed to the National Gallery, which was AWESOME. We hung out there for about two hours, decided we would need to come back the next day, and then headed to Lancaster Gate for AGGIE MUSTER: LONDON CLUB!!! For a while we lost Jim on the way to Lancaster Gate, but we finally found him at our Tube switch (Tottenham Court Road).

Going tube-ing


Inside the National Gallery

For the next four hours or so we partied with the London A&M Club, sitting around talking and playing dominoes, eating nachos and stuff. It was glorious. Afterwards we were going to go to the Texas Embassy, but we weren't hungry. We hung out for a bit afterwards, decided to go to back to Liecester Square. We saw a movie, Be Cool. It was hilarious. The Brittish movie previews were awesome. The theater was awesome. When we headed out it was the party central district. We walked to Picadilly Circus, grabbed some grub from the chepest store we could find, partied in the circus (think Times Square of London). We met some girls that Dave was friends with, then headed out just in time to catch the last tube ride back to Waterloo so we could get back to the appartment to crash.

Nothing incriminating about these photos...


Liecester Square at night


More of Liecester Square


Pickadilly Circus


Pickadilly Circus on our way out

Overall my 21st birthday was very low-stress, but we still managed to see some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen in my life. The brittish royal gardens, the national gallery, the changing of the guard, the London A&M Club, an AWESOME Brittish movie theater, Liecester Square at night, Picadilly Circus and the London Night-Life. It rocked my world. This was definitely and without any doubt the best birthday I've ever had.

We got back to Matt's Apartment and crashed to get ready for London: Day Five.