Woke up in London yesterday, saw myself in the city near Piccadily, don't really know how I got here . . .

Today was a fantastic day all around. I want to say it's been my favorite day overall, but I have done more awesome things in days gone by. Today, we started our day on Portobello Road. It's true what they really say . . . you go there to SHOP. That place is really dangerous for me. I'm always very close to just caving in and buying everything. No joke. I'm really proud of myself and the discipline I demonstrated: I only bought a dress, three scarves, and a ring . . . all for very good prices mind you! Here are some snapshots of my day on Portobello Road and my spoil.




And . . . I just couldn't resist.


And . . .

They are soooooo soft. Which is very important to me. My mom can attest to the fact that I think basically everything is itchy. I wish I wasn't so sensitive. With the first two scarves it's a little hard to tell the difference in the pictures. The first one has warmer colors while the second has cooler colors. Then the last one is just red. Well, there is no such thing as "just red."

Yes. Your eyes doth not deceive you. This dress, does in fact, have suspenders. The second I saw it, I knew we were meant for each other. All the other dresses were incredible, but our relationship was meant to be of a long standing type.

Afterward, we went with our class to see Shakespeare's The Tempest in a theatre called Little Angel Theatre. Let me just tell you how incredibly awesome it was! There were puppets! People with accordions! A guy peeing on stage! (Though he had a hard time fooling us with his very clear and translucent pee.) This was supposed to be a production mainly for children, but there were much more adults than there were children. I feel like it was very close to being perfect in my eyes. The puppets brought a magical quality to the play that is very much necessary for this play.

Our happy, smiling faces after the production was over. This play just makes you happy :)))) The girl next to me is Dezi and the other is Ariatna. They are my flat mates, and they are incredible!

That there is Caliban and Stephano, plotting the murder of Prospero.

This is what they used for Ariel. He looks really dinky in that picture, but he was actually quite adorable :)


Here's a better picture of Caliban while he is standing. The guy standing up wearing gray with his face half concealed behind the puppet did Caliban's voice. It was weird at first seeing the guys in gray hold up the puppets, but you got used to it after awhile. This is one of the most engaging Shakespeare plays I have ever seen. Serious.

My evening didn't stop there! Of course not. We then ate at this Turkish place that was delicious! I couldn't tell a word they said. I just said yes to everything they asked, very much like Cafe Rio, and what they gave me turned out to be delicious so I wasn't complaining :)

This was what I ate. I think it's called a lamb doner??? Don't really know what that is. All I know is that it is incredibly spicy, and incredibly delicious.

I was beginning to think that the employees were getting irritated with us loud, obnoxious Americans. But I guess we rubbed off on them after awhile though and they really enjoyed us there, and one of them saw that I was taking pictures and wanted one with him in it. I couldn't refuse.

Behind the attractive, single, 18 year old boy from Afghanistan (we got all this information from the older, Turkish employees) are two cylinders of solid meat. The chicken is on the left, and the lamb is on the right. They just shave off the meat from that when they need it, very much like Tucanos.

Then! No, the evening is still not over yet. I had the most divine dessert my tongue ever rested on . . . Gelato . . . .



My flavor of choice is cookies. It was . . . ah . . . I don't know . . . just so . . . creamy. I will never be happy with ice cream ever again.