Lets Take a Walk....

I'm sure you'll all be glad to hear that I am better! Hooray! I've been taking it easy because I would absolutely hate to over-do it and get sick again, but I did get out and do some fun things today and yesterday. Yesterday started slowly and in the late afternoon I finally ventured out with Jason and Justin to have a peek at Abbey Road. So we hopped onto the tube and whisked down to St. John's Wood and walked the few blocks to Abbey Road. We got there and there were about 7-8ish tourists around doing the same thing we were...having a look at the Beatles' recording studio. Really all it is is a building that is still in use and doesn't look spectacular in any way. It does however have a blue plaque because Sir Elgar also recorded there, and he wrote Pomp and Circumstance (also known as the "graduation song"). Buildings don't get a blue plaque until 20 years after the person its representing has died to protect the family from public scrutiny. Madonna doesn't want everyone knowing exactly where she lives cause she has a life and family...ya know?

What is cool though, is there is a low wall and then fence atop the wall surrounding the building. And the wall was painted white....once upon a time. Its been completely covered in sharpie and markers of the like as tourists will do to pay tribute to the band. Its really quite remarkable. And then there is the cross walk that is the extremely famous because of the Abbey Road album. We were originally going to have a go at getting a photo of us crossing and looking like the Beatles, but there was a bit of traffic, and we abandoned the plan. Justin, however still wanted a general picture. So he stopped to take a picture, and right at that moment there wasn't any traffic, so i decided to cross. Justin ended up with a near perfect picture of me crossing Abbey Road like the Beatles. I'll be putting it up asap.

With our Beatles adventure at an end, we headed for home. On the way we decided that since it hadn't taken too long, we'd stop by Buckingham Palace for a look around outside. It was pretty cool, though we nearly got taken out by an lady on a bike. Instead she tried to avoid me and the others and ended up crashing herself. She flew over her handlebars and hurt her knee. It was pretty intense. But we saw her walking away a little bit later, so we knew she was ok.

Then it was home for real and dinner time. After dinner we decided what to do with our evenings. Some went out to party and get crazy, but I thought that would be too much for me. So I ended up going to a sports bar with 5 guys and was just another one of the guys for the evening. It was fun and low key, and none of them judged me for not drinking, cause they knew I had been deathly ill and fighting the plague this week. We went to this bar because they were showing the Red Sox v Yankees game, but we had to wait till midnight for it to start. So we sat and waited and by the time it started most were ready to go home, so we left after the first inning. I was cool with it, cause I'm not a huge baseball fan, and I was tired. But boy was there some entertainment while we waited. There was this incredibly intoxicated woman who was all over the place dancing like a stripper, making out with random men and men nuzzling her busom. All the while the bartenders are like, "Yeahhhhh woooooo". It was like watching a car crash...you know its horrible but you can't tear your eyes away from it. And this woman, she kept coming over to us and slurring random things. Right after the nuzzling occurred she came over to me and said something to the effect of "this is the best part about being a woman".....uhhhh yeah....She also came over and tried to hit on 3 of the 5 guys in the group....all of whom were like....uhhh...no.... she wrapped her arms around Justin who instantly removed them with a look of disgust on his face, and she looked at him and said "Big mistake, big mistake, big mistake." It was pretty bad. It went on from there...there were plenty of antics...ending in her taking off her shirt and dancing around in her bra for a few minutes. At that point security escorted her out of the building and that was finally the end of her.

So after the sports bar and drunken woman show we headed home and I went to bed. Today we all decided to take part in the Thames River Festival. It was really cool, and I have pictures of it...its hard to describe, you kinda have to see it. But there were markets and vendors and food and music every where and it was really neat. We also wandered away from the festival and onto the doorstep of St. Paul's Cathedral. And it is absolutely gorgeous. Tomorrow night there are fireworks, and a bunch of us plan to attend that. As for tonight I think a bunch of us want to keep it low key, so we're going to head to Kav's for a pint and then bed.

Cheers!

p.s. I've tried about 7 times to upload pictures to picasa, and basically the website hates me. I've moved on and started to put up pictures on webshots. I've got a bunch on there so far, but no captions or anything. It takes a really long time to upload for some reason...but it does it so thats all I'm worried about it. You're welcome to have a peak now while I work on it, or you can wait until Monday when it will all definitely be done.

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