FIFTH!

Alright, so these photos are a little out of order, but this was my adventure yesterday afternoon! I was supposed to go on a Banksy walking tour through London (he's a political guerrilla graffiti artist and does some wicked work. Click here for more info and a couple examples of his stuff!) , but stayed up too late talking, etc. and wasn't able to get up as required at 10:30 in the morning. Luckily, my roommate Jillian is a huge fan and got her hands on the route that the group was taking, so we can do that at our leisure. Perhaps next weekend.

Instead, we decided to head over to Borough Market by London Bridge Station because I'd heard some good things and wanted to explore. It was so cool! I didn't get to take many pictures there (boo, I know) because it was a) really crowded and b) I was holding a coffee, and we all know it's tricky to maneuver a camera and a coffee in a crowd. T.S. Eliot said that the first thing you should do in another country is to smell it, so smell we did. Lots of cheese and mulled wine in the market, which we wanted to try but didn't get the chance as we were sort of on a mission for a particular stand that we never wound up finding. ha. After that, we went to Camden Town, which is a very hip, young area where you can buy pretty much anything and haggle your own price on a lot of things. Sah-weet. I bought a shawl for £3 from this cute little man and plan on wearing it with everything from now on. See how cute it is?

And, for good measure, here's how my hair looked the other morning:


I know, I know. It's really cute. I also pretty much live in that sweatshirt when I'm in my dorm, because it's so darn cold in this basement!
Also (omg, sorry about all the tangents here), last night I was awoken by a fleet of drunken imbeciles at 4 in the morning. My roommate and I then noticed kind of a squeaking noise outside our window, so we looked, and there was a massive RAT. I haven't seen many rats in my day--only ones that people kept as pets--but this one I'm pretty sure was abnormally large. It looked like it might make a decent steak. Grosss.


This is after we got off the train at London Bridge Station. You can see the tower of Tower Bridge through the skyline. Nuts, huh?

Half of the delicious muffin Jillian and I split after our unsatisfying £2.50 disgusting sandwiches.

A typical escalator scene at the tube station.

That cheese I was talking about! This kind was particularly...fragrant. There were enormous wheels of cheese everywhere. Next time, I'm going on an empty stomach so I can try more food. It all seemed relatively inexpensive.

I just thought this looked cool.



Near London Bridge.


Wishing well!


When we thought we were in Borough Market and before we realized we weren't.


When we realized we WEREN'T in Borough Market and were on our way out.



Last weekend, I had the distinct pleasure of tasting the most delicious cupcake of my lifetime from a specialty cupcake shop called Buttercup. SRSLY, I took so many pictures with it because it was of the Gods. ha. If I have enough money at the end of the semester, I want to buy the recipe for their buttercream frosting.

See? Look how cute!


This was the sandwich shop we ate at. We should've been put off when we saw that everything was slathered in mayonnaise, but no. We were too blinded by the low, low prices.


On a 'shopping trip' on High Street. The sky was so pretty, but for some reason didn't photograph well and I didn't feel like editing the photo.


There's the salad again. I had what was supposed to be curry chicken (the green stuff in the upper part of the picture) and it had peppers and raisins in it. Groooody.

That's it, dudes! I'm going to a football match tonight...Fulham FC vs. Aston Villa with Sara, and I'm really excited! I'm sure there will be some pictures of that. And next time, I will come bearing pictures of that RAT. Stay tuned.