Markets

Friday night, Chelsea and I went to Covent Gardens, which is a little market and shopping center area with a few restaurants. We ate at a cute Italian place called Pontis. I didn't eat dinner but I had an awesome slice of carrot cake and a latte of course. After dinner we went outside where there was a street performer playing guitar and singing. It was really cute because a few couples were slow dancing behind him. One couple was even ballroom dancing, definitely showing off some dance lessons!

Saturday morning I went out to a cafe up the street from our flat and when I came back I noticed I got a package!!! From Jim!!! He sent me a birthday present which was really sweet :)

We decided to go to Camden Market so Chelsea and Bridget could look for dresses to go out in. The market is PACKED on the weekends; there were so many people there! They had a ton of stuff too, clothes, jewelry, leather goods and food everywhere. After picking up a gift :) we went to Regent Street and Oxford Circus. That's a very fashiony area, a lot of stores, a lot of people. Gap was opening a pop-up store in Kingsly Court (a little mall section in Oxford Circus) during fashion week for their 1969 denim campaign. The store is only opened for 19 days and 69 hours and everything that is sold in the store is 1 of 69 pieces made and that's it. Pharrell Williams did a line of jeans and Pierre Hardy designed a pair of boots. A few artists were commissioned to do t-shirts too. Chelsea, Bridget and I each got a t-shirt that were also a part of the (red) campaign which donates part of the proceeds to the Global Fund to help fight Aids in Africa. The store had a live band playing downstairs and its scheduled to have live performers throughout the opening. Since we can't get into any fashion shows and they don't have tents like fashion week in Bryant Park I thought the pop-up store was the next best thing. And now we each own a limited edition t-shirt!

From there we took the tube to the Tower Hill station and walked over the Tower Bridge to the Thames Festival which runs all along the river only this weekend. There were tons of people and so many, many things to look at. A lot of the vendors show at other markets in London too, like Camden and the Greenwich market. It was beautiful out yesterday, really warm, so we were out all day and we walked a lot (the river is pretty long!). We ate at a pub and then got to see Big Ben and the Eye at night which was really cool. Coming home from dinner was not so cool. Apparently, this city likes to close a lot of subway LINES on the weekends for engineering work. We had to take 3 lines to get home! But we got back eventually and we were all exhausted from the day so we stayed in for the rest of the night.

Today, Chelsea and I wanted to go back to the Thames Festival to check out a few vendors that we missed yesterday. Tonight they're setting off fireworks!!! We're heading out soon to catch them. The show was designed by Mike Jones who is supposed to be one of the best in the fireworks industry so it should be really good!

Tomorrow I meet my supervisor and the owner of Braintree which I'm looking forward to.