For me? You shouldn't have, but since you did....

SURPRISE!

So HR2 took me on a wild goose chase all over London. We began at Trafalgar Square where we meet, had some lunch. Then we jumped on a boat, went down the Thames to the Tower Bridge area. Walked to these hidden docks and had Pimm's at the Dickens's Inn. Some wonderfully old pub that may have been an Inn once? If not they did a nice job making it look old. After we walked past the tower of London, over the London Bridge (where I learned some idiot in the US bought it thinking it was the Tower Bridge and now in some lake somewhere in Michigan? is the London Bridge - which is just a concrete block.)
LONDON BRIDGE

TOWER BRIDGE

On the South Side bank we headed to the 'Britain at War Experience' - under the bridge. It's this little sudo museum where you see a bunch of stuff from WWII. We even got to play in a bunker and dress up like solders and play with mannequins. Perhaps I shouldn't be so excited about that? Any who we emerge 20 min later and head to the tube where strangely enough a WWII bomb was found! What are the odds? It was very trippy. Luckily they defused it and London was saved, 60 some years later.

We headed over to the Circus School to meet Sticky Victor (she's gonna kill me for that). Had a nice bitter shandy. Then they gave me gifts. A London Starbucks mug, a chocolate bar, a box of instant cappuccino packs, a small bottle of bailey's, a small bottle of whiskey and asked what does this all equal. I said breakfast. They said an Irish Coffee. Truly people who know me well.

After some of Sticky's friends from work came and chatted us up. But the girls were looking at there clocks and frowning. So off we went for what HR2 called phase 5. Wandering the streets we ended up in Brick Lane.

Here we found an out door garden and they wondered looking for a free seat until I saw J from class and all the others. Sticky pointed to them "There!" and surprise my whole class came together to have a drink and of course when in Brick Lane - Indian food!

After another round we headed to a restaurant where we had the entire bottom floor to our selves. After a large amount of yummy food there were more presents! This time is was a tin can with a million little wrapped gifts inside. Each had a little saying like "For your romantic reunion with George" and it was a 'I Heart London" condom. The rest were very PC, which could be why i don't remember them all but it was a snow globe - more candy - British themed pencil- eraser - key chain - stress ball and a other fun things.

After most people headed out and a few of us went to a bar found down an alley with drunk people everywhere. This bar was huge and dirty but with a really cool decor. O had a little dance off with herself which quickly caught every ones attention. Russians are a little bit more out going then the Brits but as soon as she was in her groove it seemed the whole bar broke out in dance. "They just needed some one to start it" she said in her thick accent. But after half a drink we had to leave, trains would be closing soon and frankly i couldn't fit anything else in my swelled belly.

So I headed home and thought if only the Atlantic wasn't so big.