Today was the first day of the girls weekend in London! It started off very touristy although I did get us to London all by myself (with help from Sally) on the Oxford London Tube. As we arrived in London, mom insisted that we get o n a hop on hop off open top tour bus. After stopping at our hotel, we hopped back on and drove by all the iconic sites before stopping at the London Eye.
The weirdest thing about the London Eye is that you do not feel like you are very high up but it does give you an amazing view! After the Eye we walked through many of the site we saw from the bus and back to our hotel.
We changed and got ready to go out to see Wicked! To get to the theater we decided to take the Underground which ended up being super crowded due to construction and took us 55 minutes to switch tracks and go about 3 stops. We finally made it to the theater and got dinner at an amazing authentic Italian restaurant (you know its Italian when all the waiters speak Italian to each other).
Wicked was amazing! I had not seen it before but did know the premise. Even though I am in London and have even seen an English movie, it shocked me to hear them with British accents, though I must say the wizard had an amazing American accent!
When we got back to the hotel (taking less than half the time it took to get there!) we decided to do some exploring. As we were walking around I began to become confused as to whether I was in NYC or London. the area we are staying in, Leicester Square is very much like Time Square. There are billboards and giant TVs along with many familiar stores! whole Foods, Uggs, Starbucks, Bubba Gump Shrimp, TGI Fridays, and many more. We also ran into M&M world and the NFL(yea apparently the dolphins are playing the raiders in London and there are people wearing NFL jerseys everywhere).
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