My London-Paris Super Trip Part 1

so yeah.

i don't really know what to say
when people ask me how it was.
it was really great seeing my parents,
but i think this farewell was so much
worse than when i first left cause
all the excitement of going to a new place
is sorta gone and cause i know now that
i'll be all alone again i'm a bit depressed.


can you spot my parents?
its a bit blurry cause i was sitting on
my suitcase positioning my camera to
get the first shot of them as they walked out.

but i think the trip overall was okay,
just that the weather really
screwed up all our plans ):


changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace.

so as i said before,
i woke up on Day One without
any hearing in my left ear at all.
it was really really weird.
so i said to myself:
'well i think i can live with one sided hearing..'
and didn't think too much of it.


mummy with her first of three handbags.

so i waited at Heathrow for the whole day
and FINALLY my parents arrived (:
we were pretty lucky because my parent's
client had an empty apt in London
so we stayed for free, which was a huge relief.

oh yes, and the apt was apparently 5 mins
away from Stamford Bridge, but no matter
how i tried to look, I COULDN'T FIND IT!
aaaand they had a home game on the day
i left for Paris >:(


he was very cold and bored (:

on DayTwo, we woke up bright and early
and went London sightseeing!
you know all the places like Westminster Abbey,
House Of Commons, Big Ben etc.
and went to the National Gallery,
our FirstMuseumOfTheTrip.

but then as the day went along,
my ear started to hurt really badly.
so i decided to get it fixed before
it spoiled my whole trip ):


at some Italian place in Covent Garden.

so i went to some random hospital's A&E.
and waited.
and waited.
and waited some more.

grrrr >:(
i was super frustrated la,
cause this wasn't how i wanted to
spend my FIRST full day in London!
seriously.
and A&E takes FOREVER.

there were all the people bleeding
just sitting around waiting for their turn.

then there was this foreign woman
bleeding profusely from her leg and
had waited for 5 hours edi still no treatment,
so she got so angry she shouted at the nurses
and limped off with her bleeding leg.
ouch.

and then after nearly 4 hours of waiting,
i *finally* got treated.


i love this street.

Day 3 was spent at this place near Oxford
where all the outlet shops are.
and in England, outlet shopping is very nice
because all the goods are from either
the last season or the current season
and they're really slashed prices.
it's like real proper shops as well,
none of that warehouse-type environment.


i know right, i laughed nonstop too
everytime my dad wore the beanie.
my mum forced him to cause it was so cold.
(:

we met up with my aunt on Day 4
and went to Harrods (:

did you know that Harrods has
this mermaid fountain with real dead fish
pinned on it as decoration?
they have to change those fish everyday!
eeyer.


Portobello Market, which is this looooooong
road all filled with antique galleries and
little stalls selling vintage stuff.
it's also where Notting Hill was filmed.

so far we haven't gone shopping yet,
so i was pretty much itching to shop.
so Day 5 was spend in Covent Garden
and Oxford Street buying things (:

i got a sign for my room saying
'Drama Queen Drive'
so me right?!!


LONDON SNOW!!
we were waiting for toilet for half an hour
in the hail then the snow.
it was really really *horrible*.

Portobello Market was for Day 6.
basically, it's this super super long road
filled with antique galleries and
it was very cool cause each gallery
had a lot of little stalls inside.
there were so many little cool things!


there were so many floors and the place was huge,
yet the only things from Msia took
up HALF a little cabinet, and whats worse is
our only contribution are METAL BARS.
very embarassing.

but the weather was disgusting.
really.
it was rainy and drizzly the whole time
then suddenly started hailing and snowing.
even crappier, my mum and i were
desperately standing in line for those
self-cleaning toilets which was crap
cause people only use them for 2 mins
and the toilets have this period of cleaning
which took really FOREVER.
so we stood for half an hour in the snow
just to use toilets >:(


roof of the British Museum.
pretty isnt it?

so we escaped to the British Museum,
which was our SecondMuseum.
i really really like this place.
i tell you, i LOOOOVE museums.

but going to the museum with my dad
is a whole other thing to think about.
my mum and i would walk around the place
looking at things and finish by half an hour
and go looking for my dad to find him
STILL where we started, examining
all the stuff really closely, finding
all the perfect angles to take photos.
it was quite amusing.


and finished with a dinner at my aunt's restaurant.

and that was our first 6 days in London.
photos on Facebook asap.
next up, the Paris part (: