London baby!

There will need to be a few posts to span my absence. This is the first.

London was truly epic. I shall do a diary stylee entry.

London. Monday 17th May 2010. Weather? Hot enough to boil a lobster. Company? The bunny. Plans? WICKED!

We spent some hours on a train, then trekked it up to the hotel where the staff were very polite, which surprised me somewhat as I seem to have terrible luck with hotel staff. We cooled off for a bit, then went out to the shops so I could get something to wear to the theatre (trust me to not bring anything) we found a shopping centre not far away and I came away with a top and a dress for the upcoming birthday party the following weekend.

We grabbed some dinner and cheap cocktails in a local eaterie (Giraffe, I recommend it if you ever find yourself at a loose end in Victoria, it's on the same st as the Apollo Victoria theatre and the staff, atmosphere and food are all excellent). When dinner was done with we took ourselves off to the theatre, browsed the merch stall (The Oz-Dust Ballroom) and bought bracelet charms, programs, lapel pins and a flying monkey (not a real one, but how cool would THAT have been?!) then, to the show.

I can honestly say that other than AC/DC I have never seen anything that spectacular. The costumes were incredible, the dialogue wonderful, the story well-adapted from Gregory Maguire's book and the cast were absolutely amazing. I wont say too much as there are a few surprises along the way, but I will say this. GO SEE IT!

We then headed to a local spoons for a drink and the girl that plays Nessarose came in to meet a friend/boyfriend :) We think it was her, so I'm going to tell myself it was :D

the walk home took us past a little late night shop with a Turkish owner who loved that we were Scottish and talked to us for a while, he was delightful :D

Tuesday 18th May 2010. Weather? Even hotter than yesterday. Plans? Shop til we drop.

And shop we did (and drop at one point). First port of call was Buckingham Palace however, and they put on a parade just for us! :D We got sick of the tourists though and took off for lunch in a greasy spoon. Then we trekked down to..... HARRODS!

Oh yes, and they even let us in. We spent a little while wandering around the makeup counters and both spent exorbitant amounts on things we *need* before heading through to the tack-tastic gift shop for a shopping ba for Bunny's mum. Ironically, bucking the trend, they gave her a carrier ba for her makeup, then another one to put her shopping bag in. The mind boggles... From there we went for coffee and a chillax before attempting to find the Hummingbird Bakery. Cue a few texts to a friend of ours at work who text back "Which one? There are several?" There are two! Don't get your knickers in a twist!

Eventually we found the famous Hummingbird (and an RBS where I could pay in some much needed cheques) only to find that the Hummingbird is closed for refit! There is another but we were dead on our feet so went for more coffee and decided to head up to Selfridges for one more trawl of the beauty counters. There I found my much desired Ophelia lip gloss from Nars and also succumbed to an eye makeup base and eyeshadow duo while Bunny plumped for some MAC :) we then checked out the jewellery hall (including a Tiffany's!) and went for one more coffee before checking out a local scarf/hat vendor (for pashminas, not actual scarves, we were melting at this point) before heading back to the hotel where we discovered....

AIR CONDITIONING! The fact we didn't notice it the night before when we were dying from the heat shows how excited we were about Wicked. A round of cold showers later and ew were once again ready to hit the town. However, instead of that, as we are both creatures of habit, we went back to Giraffe where the staff were still fab, the food stiull excellent and the drinks still cold.

We headed back, once again via the Turkish shopkeeper and then settled in for a chat and to watch naff TV before bed.

The next morning we were up bright and early to travel back to the big smoke, and a few hours into the train ride I had a wee drink while the bunny tried to get some sleep. We got back to the city about tea time, high as kites and happy as drunken monkeys :)

Until next time, something has changed within me, something is not the same, I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game...