London times again

Travelling map on the train. Free TV on the train, HIMYM yay! Typical tourist picture. And again.
Fire Music! Turns out he was pretending to play, I was disappointed. The sky looked so pretty. Chilling in the night - it was actually about 9:30pm! With the Lions!
Me and my friend going underground. London at night. Thorpe Park! My OOTD - trying to show how wet it was.
I fell off a ride. Paddington Station. Jelly Beans! My reading material on the train home. 

I was meant to post this yesterday but things have been busy, as usual. The other day in work I whacked my head really hard against something and I think I had/have concussion! If not I'm pretty dizzy anyway and my sleeping pattern is messed up. I got home from work that night about 4am and woke up the next day at 4:15pm!! I had work by 5 and it takes me half an hour to drive to work, so I was in a rush yesterday and yeah, now my sleeping pattern is messed up as I've just woken up from a nap! Oh well, onto the post now!

I went up to London again recently, this time to visit my friend. When we got there we went for a walk and did some sightseeing as another friend I came up with had only been to London once years ago. It was really nice and warm and light for the time of night and then we had some drinks in the pub before getting a pizza and going home to watch a film, and meeting some of my friends housemates.

The next day we woke up super early (for me!) and went to Thorpe Park with two of my friends housemates. We had to catch two tube trains, a train and a shuttle bus to get there but it was worth it! I've never been to Thorpe Park before so was excited, but I stupidly wore a maxi skirt thinking I'd be okay! I wore it thinking it would dry faster than the jeans I'd brought if we went on any water rides (which I did, except for the big splash one) but then when jumping off one ride at the end my skirt got caught and I fell and bashed my knee and hands. It probably was hilarious to look at judging by how much the girl who worked there was laughing, but she directed me to first aid when I showed her I was bleeding. They were only small cuts but stung and wouldn't stop bleeding and I had a nice chat with the first aider who had a friend in Swansea Uni. The rest of the day was fun though, and we went on loads of rides loads of times since it was actually really quiet considering it was the last day of half term and only rained a little bit. We weren't complaining though since the longest we had to queue was half an hour, and on average about ten minutes. 

We'd been there from about 11:30 to closing time at 6 so were exhausted travelling back. One guy actually fell asleep on the tube on the way home but the boys both went straight to the pub while we girls went home to shower thanks to the rain and water rides! We ordered pizza again! And waited for another friend who was coming down from Aberdeen for the Summer Holidays then we went to the pub too. I tried a strawberry beer for the first time which was amazing, and I don't like beer so it was a nice change. Needless to stay when we got in we all fell asleep straight away ready to catch the train back home the next morning. 

I'm usually running late or miss trains when I'm coming home, and we thought we would miss the train (something wrong with the tube again!) but we actually made it with ten minutes to spare, which never happens! Note to self, leave extra time in case of delays! We got back home a couple of hours later where I promptly fell asleep again. It was a really fun trip and I sort of wish I'd had the chance to shop but my bank account is glad I didn't, and we had a fun day in Thrope Parl anyway with 2 for 1 vouchers and hopefully next time I go to London, I might go see all the Harry Potter sets everyone's talking about! 

The London Haul

I have very imaginative headings I know, I know (sarcasm) and I use Instagram a lot (I'd say sorry, but I LOVE it, usernames lisamello) and this will only be a short post. I'm trying to get into the habit of blogging more so there may be more shorter posts. So this is a 'What I bought in London' post. I didn't have that much money to spend, and used vouchers and bought presents for others, and only went to shops that Swansea doesn't have (like Paperchase! *sob* we used to...). Where was I? Oh yes the London Haul.

I went to Paperchase and bought a cute owl tin, since I loved my birthday wrapping paper so much and I love owls, they're so cute. I also bought some paper tape in pink, red, and turquoise with cute faces on it so my collection is growing. I always buy postcards when I'm there, and bought a thank you one since I liked the design, and a cute  elephant one that I'm going to frame and give to my friend in her baby shower (along with other presents, and also, I'm organising it! Eeek). I bought a bunny rabbit pen from there, because I've actually been doodling little bunnys in outfits for a long time, and then I went to Paperchase and they were SO similiar I was heartbroken. They were going to be a shop idea, oh well, but I bought the pen as a reference if I do want to draw bunnys to make them not look like those ones! Not pictred was a notebook as I always buy one from there too but they didn't have the one I usually get, boo. 

I went to the Moomin shop too and wanted to buy everything there, but again, I'm poor so I only bought a cookie cutter since I actually bake and will use it. In Covent Garden there's a shop called Sass and Belle (I think) that I always go to which is filled with cute things. I bought the two polka dot buckets, one to keep and the blue one for the baby shower but I'm not sure what to do with it. I also went to the David and Goliath shop to add to my collection of t-shirts and spent a birthday voucher there, getting those two cute t-shirts above. I already have a Pug one (You're so Pugly) but another one won't hurt right? And the other one, well I am a 'Dork' and play videogames and I'm wearing it right now!

So just a little short post of nothing too exciting, one day I'll win the lottery and have loads of money to shop! But I should probably buy a ticket first :P

P.S In other actual exciting relating to London news, my boyfriend has got the job! In September he'll be teaching in Portugal which is very exciting! I love Portugal, I went there two years ago, and I'll either be living there or visiting lots depending on my job situation!

London, Instagrammed

I went to London on the weekend as my boyfriend had an interview there (for a job abroad) and we thought we may as well make a trip of it! Sadly we only had one day there because of work for him, boo but it was still fun! :) Since we only had one day we didn't want to cram everything in and be rushing around everywhere and we went sight seeing and to museums last time, and I went to Platform 9 and 3/4s last Summer with my friends so it was just going to be a more relaxed affair this time. 

The first photo is of my reflection on the train, that had broken down. It was something to do with the pipes and lasted about 20-30 minutes. We weren't too annoyed and played some paper games and we got to London about midnight. We grabbed some food and then went on the underground from Paddington to Tower Hill where the train stopped for over 5 minutes, we were just having train problems all weekend. I was just glad it wasn't packed and we eventually got into our hotel room after 1am! We'd been travelling since 7:30 so were really glad to get to bed, it looked lovely and cosy. I wish I snapped a picture of the Tower Bride and London Tower all lit up in the night  as we went past them (they were about 3 minutes away from the Hotel) but I never did as both nights we were there we were tired and had to wake up early. 

The next day my boyfriend woke up really early to go to his interview and woke me up by being loud, and I couldn't get back to sleep but couldn't go anywhere till he came back (I had no clue where he was going!). I just tidied the room and watched some TV and saw that we were directly opposite a train station meaning people could see me! So glad I hadn't got changed yet lol, and the cleaners knocked on the door about five times while I was waiting, and when we left I guess they'd given up since we came back to the room the same state we'd left it in, oops. When my boyfriend came back we then headed to Leicester Square to get some cheap musical show tickets (Blood Brothers) and food and headed over to Covent Garden. I always have to go there, its amazing I love the shops and atmosphere so much! Also my boyfriend got me a David and Goliath voucher for my birthday so I had to go there really. We also popped into the Moomin shop and I bought a cookie cutter, can't wait to use it! I never really watched TV as a child, until I was about ten so I don't really remember shows but I remember the Mommins, and wanted to buy everything in that shop but I hardly spent anything whilst in London except on food and tickets, I need to save sadly. We went to a few other shops and on the way to Forbidden Planet we came across Bob the Busking Street Cat! My boyfriend pointed him out to me and then regretted it as I had to take a picture, I would have taken more pictures of the trip but he would be like "Taking another picture?".

Anyway we then headed back to the TravelLodge and I really liked the spiral staircase and the weather! It was SO sunny, I can't believe it. We then got ready and headed over to the Phoenix Hotel to watch The Blood Brothers. I've never seen it or read it, but heard it was very good. I didn't know much about it, but other shows we wanted to see had limited viewing or were over the budget we set ourselves or one of us had seen it so we thought 'why not?' and I'm glad we did. When we got there they upgraded our seats from the top circle to the stalls, and we had a really good view. Even though you know what will happen from the start, it still shocked and saddened me at the end, and most of the audience jumped, including me!  Some of the songs are still playing in my head, and I thought the cast was amazing since they were a small cast and brought on all their props. Afterwards we headed back onto the tube, which was packed! I felt like a sardine but luckily no problems that night and we sat in the bar for a while sharing a pizza, nom nom!

The next day we woke up early again, which was so painful, I am definitely not a morning person! The two bottom middle photos are the wrong way around as we went to Paddington train station first (I love the roof of it), but we were late for our train. We waited ten mintues for the line we needed to get there and plenty of the other lines came and we missed our train and had to wait around an hour and a half for the next one. We chanced it on the next one and luckily they didn't make us buy another ticket since we'd missed the first one, phew! Again it was another sunny day and I spent most of the trip asleep since we'd barely had any sleep for the past few nights and took a photo of my owl hand cream and included it since I liked how it turned out. 

So that was my weekend, and I meant to keep it brief and about the photos but explained a little bit more, oh well. It was a fun weekend and I hope everyone enjoyed theirs too!