I have no legs, I have no legs!

Phew!

Not sure what the hell happened to me, but I did not wake up until 11am on Saturday morning!! Needless to say that I was much reasted, however did have a sore throat (agh!).

Even though I admitted to not telling anyone, Carlo and I decided to get all of the tourist needs out of us so that we could pretend not to be one from Sunday forth! First stop was to ride the London Eye (or as I like to call it - the "London Aya-a")...






When purchasing our tickets, we got the "Fast Track" one that was an additional £10 (perhaps the best £10 that I have ever spent - the entire population of London, all the tourists and every Eastern European and Indian family were out yesterday). Anyhow, they had these little guides at the counter so I took one...



Only to find out later that one was supposed to "purchase" it rather than "take it" - I had a mild anxiety attack and returned it as soon as we got off the ride!!

Oh, and we also stumbled across "Chocolate Thunder" whilst waiting in line (yup - even with our damn "Fast Track" there was still waiting involved)...



"Chocolate Thunder" happened to be in the capsule behind us and was more than happy to show us his killer moves during the ride...



Anyhow, here are an assortment of pics -






These are the doors that Carlo tried to convince me to lean against for a "Cool Photo" - Is he trying to secretly (or not so secretly) kill me??


This was me licking the "Gehrkin" builing - why then named it after a pickle, when clearly is resembles a suposotory more than anything - I dont know!



It was then off to Westminster Abbey. We walked over the bridge and past big Ben...



One of the things that has been freaking me out here is there are no trash cans (they are afraid people will put bombs in them), so people put their rubbish everywhere...



sooooo Uukk!

We made it through the sea of tourists, Bangadeshi families, American school children etc to the Abbey...



However it was another £15 to get in and another wait for eternity, so we decided to go and grab some lunch instead!



Carlo and I had initially satrted the day with purchasing "Tube Pass" - it was £4 a ride or £6 for the day so clearly we went with the latter option! It was worse than in Japan where at least they have professionals to shove you in and its clean and and has AC. This was MISERABLE - SOOOOO crowded, no air and dirty (soooo uuk).




however there were moments of great amusement...


"Cockfosters" - he he he... there seems to be a lot of English names wih "Cock" and "Bush" in them!

Then it was off to Harrods!



But not before we stopped in H&M for a quick fashion shoot...



Overall, Harrods was a big disappointment. I went thinking that I would purchase a Lion or an Elephant (I have always wanted a pet Elephant) and Carlo was leaning towards a Rhino. Well, not only was it impossible to move in there, but everything was SOOO expensive...


These were Childrens jeans ON SALE?!!

Also, there was nothing fancy or out of the ordinary there. Not to mention the fact that the only pets for purchase were Cats (they did not even look like kittens). Therefore we came out empty handed (Uukk). However, we did have a great deal of amusement at the "Grand Egyptian Stairs" (aka escalators) where they had this lady sing opera from a balcony (keep your eyes peeled for the creepy "lurker" behind her - recognise him??!!)...



It was then off to Covent Garden. The weather was crappy all day, and by the time we got there we were both beyond exhausted and our little Los Angeles legs were realy confused as to what we had just put them through. We wandered a bit before we went back to out oasis - the Langham!


found a cute cheese shop.


found a weird asexual store where we could not tell the male and female mannequins appart!


found a nasty looking cupcake place.


found that the majority of places were all places we have back home - like American Apparel!!

I shall leave it at that for now - please do not judge my repeat, nasty, granlona, unnacceptable outfit/ backpack on this blog. It is FREEZING here and I do not have the right clothing packed :(