Thursday, after Bridget got home from work, we went to Covent Garden to get our hair done. We had picked up vouchers (coupons) during the week and she wanted a hair cut and I needed to get my highlights touched up. After a couple hours there (with new hair!) we went to Oxford Circus to go shopping for some new jeans for Bridget, with my help of course! I had been to Uniqlo a while ago and knew they had pretty cheap jeans, so we went there. Oxford Street was all lit up with lights! It was so pretty, but it was raining so I couldn’t get any pictures. Bridget was able to get a pair of jeans and a few other things, which was great. Christine met up with us and we had dinner at Nandos again (second time in a week).
Class we pretty uneventful on Friday; I was done with the first class by 11:00 and Alan wasn’t in his office yet so I just went home. I took a nap and then headed to the hardware store down the street to see if there were any paint samples there. Unfortunately there wasn’t (that’d be too easy). But one of the workers told me where I could get some so I decided to head there on Saturday. I went across the street to sit in Café Nero for a little bit-had a mocha and white and dark chocolate cheesecake, mmmmmmmmm! After that I went back home and got ready to go out with Eya and Bridget. We went to Covent Garden and ate dinner at Nandos again (third time!). After dinner, we met up with a few of Eya’s friends at a club called Verve. It was pretty cool, good DJ. We were there until about 3 AM.
The next day we all slept pretty late. When we decided to get up and do something Eya, Bridget and I took the tube to West Kensington where there is a Home Base, a store kind of like Lowe’s, so I could get some paint samples for the store. While walking from the tube station to Home Base we passed an enormous Tesco with a double decker parking garage. After getting some samples we went into the Tesco and picked up a few things. It’s so funny to see regular size grocery stores here, especially ones with parking lots. Everyone in the store had carts, buying tons of stuff, like they had regular size refrigerators at home! Haha
Chelsea was home from Italy by the time we got back. Her, Eya and I met up with Harry and his friends right outside the London Bridge tube station. There is a bar there call the Shunt. It’s supposed to be made up of all these underground caverns. When we got there though they were not letting anymore people in! The guy at the door was actually being pretty mean to people. We left and headed to Piccadilly Circus. Harry’s friends had a hard time deciding where to go for some reason, so we eventually left them and walked to Covent Gardens. A promoter ended up giving us a flyer for Los Locos, a club/bar in Covent so we ended up going there.
Los Locos was PACKED. We found some seats and got drinks. The DJ was really good, he was playing Whiney Houston, Bon Jovi, Bruce, everything you could sing to or would here at a wedding. We had a really good time there.
Sunday Chelsea and I went to Spitalfields Market. She hadn’t been there on a Sunday yet, which is the best day to go. We started at Petticoat Lane where we found some cheap souvenirs and I bought a cute dress (only 8 pounds!). From there we went to Old Spitalfields Market. We had breakfast (well by that time it was actually lunch, it was already 11) at a café that my guidebook says everyone goes to. After we fueled up, it was time for some shopping! We walked through the entire Old Spitalfields. We found stalls and areas that I didn’t go to the first time I went too. There was sooooooooooo much good stuff. I love that the people selling the goods are up incoming designers and hand make mostly everything there. We wandered in there for a few hours we walked to Brick Lane, which is right up the street. We walked through the Sunday Up Market in the Truman Brewery. It smells amazing in there. All of the food stalls are right in the front so as soon as you walk in you are bombarded with sweet and sour, chili, curry, etc. It makes you hungry instantly. We walked through the whole market there and grabbed some lunch. Then we walked up Brick Lane and stopped at the beigel shop at the end.
Monday and Tuesday I did a lot of things for my project for the store. It’s coming together but it’s making me nervous because I think I may run out of time! I don’t have many weeks left here and there’s still so much to do! Because there is so much going on at work I’m finding it hard to communicate with John and Rachel and have decisions be made as quickly as I’d like them to. Tuesday night I went to McDonald’s to use their free WiFi (getting pretty sick of pub food). I ordered from their value menu and got a large drink and fry and boy am I glad I got a large-their size large is like a U.S. size medium!!! I was ready for some Biggie sizes!!!! No wonder we have an obesity problem haha, but seriously I needed more :)
Wednesday I was able to talk to John about everything that I had pending for the store. After over a week of sitting with first draft artwork for the front door, I got everyone’s opinion on the changes and emailed the graphic designer back. When I got home from work, Chelsea and Bridget were getting ready to go to the Absolut Ice Bar off Regent Street. I missed out on going to the Ice Bar in Barcelona so I definitely wanted to check it out. We bought our tickets, which paid for entry and your first drink. We had to wait a few minutes for the next time slot so we stood on line. Once the slot came up we were given thermal capes with gloves and in we went! At first it was like going into a meat locker, walking through those rubber flaps, and then an automatic door. Once inside, it was really cool. The ice is from Sweden and there’s a bunch of cool stuff carved in it. We got our drinks, which came in a glass that was a giant ice cube-kept the vodka nice and chilled! You are only allowed to stay in there for 40 minutes and the website said the average length of stay is 25 minutes; its -5 Celsius. We were in there for almost the entire time. I was fine except for my fingertips.
After we left the Ice Bar we wanted to look at some Christmas decorations. I knew the windows at Liberty would be amazing so we went there first. Luella Bartley, a British fashion designer, designed everything for the department store, Liberty’s Luella Christmas. The windows were awesome, filled to the brim, crazy. Inside, from what we could see, looked amazing too. From there we turned down Carnaby Street, which is decorated in a 60’s theme with HUGE balloons, hearts, deer, etc.
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