Please join with me in celebration!! Yay!!
Yeah, we have internet now, which is great. I woke up late (around 10) on Saturday morning and was getting ready to go running when the phone started ringing in our hallways. When a phone that's never rung before starts to ring, you know it's pretty important...or bad...but I was hoping for important. Turns out that there was a package downstairs for us at the desk. So in my running clothes, I bolt downstairs to find our router sitting there on the desk! Like the little munchkin I was feeling like at the moment, I snatched the box and bolted back upstairs with the speed of a cheetah with gazelle feet (how's that for imagery?) and ran into our flat.
It felt like Christmas morning when we were all 7 or 8 years old. So Luke and I set up the router painstakingly and, lo and behold, we now have internet access! Huzzah!
Later on that day, Luke, Mary, Mallory and I went on an excursion to Hamley's, which is the giant, seven-floored toy store in Piccadilly Circus. Needless to say, it was AMAZING. There were stuffed animals, giant lions, a huge staircase telling the story of Narnia and a Lego floor, where Luke and I basked in the glorious splendor that is Aqua Raiders (one of the better, less commercialized versions of Legos).
From there, it was on to the Boys section on the top floor, where they also had a cafe section. I sat down after getting my multi-flavoured slushie and watched all of the kids who took me back within myself to reach the inner child who actually had the money to buy a few things instead of having to ask his mom, "Can I get the Spiderman intercom masks pleeeeeeeeease?!?!" My inner child was let out for the time being as further exploration revealed a life-sized WWE outfit with a mildly scary looking 8-year old screaming on the box cover, as well as Transformer trucks that made me smile.
After spending a lot of time in the store and taking about 200 pictures between 2 cameras, (we left after hitting a flying helicopter in mid-air, causing it to crash into the crowd), we reluctantly left Hamley's. Our disappointment was short-lived as we spotted a toy store of a different nature: the Apple Store. Ironically, this was why we had come in the first place, but Hamley's took precedence over the real reason for our excursion. The Apple Store is probably the biggest in the world, literally, and has a ton of people in it every day. I managed to schedule an appointment for the geniuses to take a look at my charger and keyboard, as they are both pretty damaged. Actually at this point, I'd say they aren't because it's the day after and they were both fixed, free of charge!
Thank you, Dad, for convincing me to get Apple Care.
Long story short, it was a fantastic day. We also went to Covent Garden, but Luke and I are headed to the Super Bash in Battersea Park, which is the official NFL-sponsored party of London. He got tickets for a class assignment and managed to squeak out an extra one for me. That's what friends are for. :oP
If there's anything you want to hear about that I'm not covering that you can think of, just post a comment or something like that and I will do my best to update you now that we have internet in our flat and I don't have to sneak on to update at work all the time!
Okay. From London, this is Seth Palmer. You stay classy...Planet Earth.
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