things i love thursday

Julia and I attempting to break through Platform 9.

After making it to the center of the maze (same one they filmed the Harry Potter movie in!), I was traumatized.

At Hampton Court with Julia & Rylie.

King's Cross! I am holding a mop. I am four seconds away from trying to fly away on it.

First rainy day in London. Look at my cute rain umbrella! And the London Eye in the background.

I am a copycat. I once read this article about how to make it big on blogs and it linked to this one girl’s blog and she had a “Things I Love Thursday.” I am going to copy her, because London is too busy and too fun to write everything that has been going down. Ready? Ready!

This week I love:

The Old City; big buildings that are older than our country; St Paul’s Cathedral; visiting Fleet Street (!!); the financial district and its Starbuck’s every ten feet; Oystercards; becoming semi-literate so far as the tube system is concerned (!!); the people in the paleopathology department of the Museum of London; the Tower of London; meeting old friends at the Tower of London and planning trips to Ireland with them (Kevin!!); impromptu photoshoots; visiting old castles; looking at old art; running through the same maze they filmed Goblet of Fire in; walking so much I don’t feel guilty about eating Milka (!!!) chocolate; standing under Big Ben as the quarter-hour strikes; Westminster Abbey in all its splendor (!!!!!!); KING’S CROSS TRAIN STATION, even though it was not like it was supposed to be and there was no wall between 9 &10, only train track, and even though it was inside and not like the movie and even though I definitely didn’t get to go to Hogwarts; the fact that tomorrow morning I take off for Ireland!!!!!!!!

Yay!