Although I stayed out quite late last night, Kristin and I woke up early this morning to catch the train to London. LONDON!! Felix invited me to go to Wimbledon this weekend and camp out on Sunday for the opening day (Monday). Kristen, the other intern from MIT, also came with us as did Rob. Rob was the guy who we went with to Bournemouth for the beach volleyball weekend (stayed at his house and sailed with his friends!)
Anyway, we caught the train to London at 9:20am and arrived at St. Pancras Station at approx. 11:03. Pretty good time, I'd say. The weather was slightly overcast and possibly even rainy, so we decided that the day would be a good day to go to the museums! So off we went to the National Museum of Britain! Err at least it was called something like that. Anyway, the entrance was free other than the star exhibit of Davinci's artwork. Kristen is really into art and drawing, so she paid to go see the exhibit. While she was being very worldy and artsy, Felix, Rob, and I saw stuff from Egypt, Rome, and Africa (wayy oo wayy o weii, wayy oo wayy oow weiiii wayyyy ohhh, oh Africa) good song btw :) Anyway, my camera ran out of memory like 7 pictures in, but Felix got some awesome shots of the three of us imitating the Roman statues and the wildlife of Africa. Reminded me of the movie Eurotrip when they go into the museum and do all sorts of silly things haha. When he gets those to me, I will post them up here!
After the museum we went to Notting Hill Gate (a very ritzy part of London where the movie Notting Hill was filmed...obv. enough). Felix's cousin has a flat there with a rooftop garden that overlooked the entire city!! We went to the park and played frisbee for a long while and then stopped by Tescos to pick up some burgers and buns..and salad of course. Although it was quite cold out, the sunset on top of the roof was unbelievably beautiful and we took wayyy to many pictures. The pictures that I will post are Kristen's, but Felix has a lot of really really good ones with his high tec camera. Like I said, soon to be posted!
After dinner we played quiz-bowl something or other on Wii and stayed up WAY too late playing Sing Star on Wii. Sing Star is like rock band but instead of playing instruments you sing and it matches the pitch to the pitch needed. I would say that we were all pretty evenly matched, and some of us lucky singers reached the highest level on the game! (w/ Piano Man by Billy Joel!). It was not until about 1/2 past 2 that we noticed there was a huge bus stop with a long long queue of people waiting...and naturally all of the windows were open and we were singing REALLY loud. I think they especially enjoyed my reaction when I reached SingStar Celebrity or whatever the highest level was. I was ecstatic!! Here is proof.
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