Top 10

Because I have only 10 days left in London (!!!), I decided to share with you some of my "top 10" lists that I have been compiling on my laptop. Anyone who has ever seen my computer knows that my desktop is flooded with millions of sticky notes - well, here is a sneak peak to what these stick notes currently say:

10 things I still need to do before I leave London
1. Visit a soccer stadium (most likely Wembly Park)
2. Go to the Portobello Road Market in Notting Hill
3. Go to the National Gallery
4. Go to the Victoria and Albert Museum
5. Go to the Churchill War Rooms
6. Go to the Imperial War Museum
7. Hang out in Regents Park
8. Visit Kew Gardens (apparently they have beautiful flowers there... so this would be for Robyn)
9. Peruse the Borough Market (apparently known for its fresh food!)
10. See a West End show! But never fear, Amanda and I have tickets to see "Chicago" on August 1st!

10 places I want to eat as soon as I get home
1. In N Out Burger
2. Chipotle
3. Mongolian BBQ
4. Yen Du
5. Casa Flores
6. Costco (for hot dogs...obviously)
7. Grandma's house (spaghetti please!)
8. My house (Mom, you know what to do. I would start shopping now.)
9. Chandni's house (Indian food here doesn't even begin to compare)
10. Bob's at the Marina

10 songs that will forever remind me of this trip
1. Take On Me (A-ha)
2. Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
3. One Week (Barenaked Ladies)
4. Move It Like Bernie (don't know the artist, but look it up on YouTube)
5. Show Goes On (Lupe Fiasco)
6. Wonderwall (Oasis)
7. Graduation (Vitamin C)
8. Kids (MGMT)
9. Black and Yellow (Wiz Khalifa)
10. Who Dat Girl
... and every Jason DeRulo song ever.

10 things I am going to miss about the UK
1. My job, and my coworkers
2. Living/traveling/spending every moment with my partner in crime, the wonderful and hysterical Miss Amanda St. Hilaire
3. British accents and slang
4. British snacks and candy
5. Being able to frolick around Europe on the weekend
6. Having cool pubs to hang out at
7. Having new places to explore every day
8. Fish N Chips. Enough said.
9. Cornish pasties. Yum.
10. Being conveniently located to everything on the Tube

10 things I am NOT going to miss about the UK
1. Conversion rates... I love it when my money means something!
2. My uncomfortable bed
3. Being across the ocean from everyone I love
4. My crappy cell phone
5. Seeing the same "Friends" episode on TV like 5 times a day
6. Having limited Internet usage
7. Not having beef hot dogs... anywhere.
8. People who lack self awareness on the Tube
9. Night buses
10. RAIN.

In case you were wondering, not much has happened since my last post on Sunday evening. Monday was pretty uneventful - went to work and enjoyed a picnic in St. James Park because the weather was a BEAUTIFUL 72 degrees and sunny, and spent the night in watching "P.S. I Love You" with Amanda. Tuesday was even more uneventful than Monday, seeing that I was deathly ill, presumably with food poisoning, so I ended up calling in sick to work and alternated between sleeping and watching some of the DVDs my dad sent me, including the movie I watch everytime I'm sick without fail, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

Luckily this morning I felt a bit better so I came back into work, and went with Leah to the National Portrait Gallery during our lunch break! Since I have so much I still want to see and so little time to do it (and since Leah is secretly a nerd and loves museums), we've agreed to eat lunch in the office and use our lunch hour to explore free museums! Pretty sweet deal if you ask me! Also as we were walking by Trafalgar Square we peeked in to see a big press release about the Olympics, that is apparently officially one year away as of today! Kinda exciting, although if you ask any Londoner they are plotting to leave during those 2 weeks so they can avoid all the chaos the Olympics will bring to the city.

Tonight is my weekly stay-in night, and I am determined to get a lot done on my research paper (that I have not had much time to work on recently...oops) because my friend Peter is coming to visit this weekend (yay!). Because of this we will get to see him along with a bunch of other friends I went camping with in Cornwall the first weekend I was here. I guess it's appropriate that I spent my first weekend in the UK with them, as well as my last :) Until next time!