My first week in London

I got to London very early on Sunday morning, January 21. I was nervous but so tired, I could hardly work up my usual amount of nerves. I didn't sleep on the plane AT ALL. It was pretty funny- the only movies we had to watch were "The Queen", "The Last Kiss", and this terrible, terrible movie with Sean Penn, "All the King's Men." I'm sure Helen Mirren did a good job in The Queen, but to be honest, that's not exactly the kind of movie you want to watch three times on a loop. Which is just what I had to do on the plane. ::sigh:: So I was pretty much dead on my feet once I got to London.

Stacey and I luckily found a nice porter to help us with our myriad of bags- it was craziness! We probably had eight bags between us- but looking back, I don't think I overpacked. The weather in London is very unpredictable, and three suitcases later, I was ready for anything!

Where we're staying in London is so SWANK. It's right by Buckingham Palace, and even though the inside of Vandon House is just normal, the location could not be better. My only complaint about the Hotel itself? No showers. Just baths. I thought I loved baths, but now I'm starting to think I'll never take another one when I get back to America.

My roommate Hilary just could not be cooler. She and I have so much fun together, and always are finding new little (or big) adventures to go on in London. Our first week, we went on this Jack the Ripper tour of all of London's creepy haunts- it was so fun! (I know, I'm weird.) Our tour guide knew everything about everything, and it was so cool to see all of these places I've heard about practically my whole life.

The first week we went to a production of "Evita" which was...interesting. And that's putting it nicely. I love love love musicals, and I thought I liked Evita, but watching it on stage instead of in a movie, I realized that it's just the same three songs over and over again. And without Antonio Banderas to distract me, all of its weird little plot contrivances and shrieky songs really started to get on my nerves.

It's nice though- I've found such a good group of Christian girls. Me, Chelsey, Katie, Stacey, and Hilary formed this instant bond and have been hanging out all the time.

I could not be happier with the way things are going- jet lag aside. It's really hard to sleep when you cross about four time zones, strangely enough.

Cheers,
Ev