Harrods

I had the most expensive milkshake of my life today. But it was SO good.

Caitlin, Vanessa, her friend Trisha and I went to Harrods today. Caitlin and I meandered through the shoes and evening wear sections first (sticker shock anyone?) and decided to go upstairs... to the toy department! We were in grave danger of never emerging again from THAT one, they had fantastic stuffed animals, and really cool rocking horses, and giant beautiful doll houses, and the snazziest whirly flashy things ever (like a helicopter that really flies and light up wheels to attach to your sneakers). I want to be an employee there, they get to play with everything (like said helicopter and wheels, and also two guys had to stand there and throw boomerangs at each other, and one guy was doing magic tricks). It's magical. Luckily, Vanessa and Trisha showed up before we got too sucked into that vortex (though I almost bought many of their awesome board games).

We proceeded downstairs to the food court, which was another vortex in and of itself. THE CHOCOLATE ROOM. Really, I can't say much else. It was gorgeous. I wanted to keep it. I need that room in my house. No, I really don't. (But I do). The chocolate was so pretty and yummy looking and it just smelled fantastic. And then the other room was awesome- their Chinese food looked so good, and they had a sushi bar... and then we went back upstairs (and through the sparkly pretty glassware room) and to the Harrods Chocolate Bar. I wanted the entire menu. I settled for my overpriced shake, but it was the chocolatiest best one I've had in a while.

We took a couple minutes back at campus after, so Van and Trisha could eat their cheesecake and I could do some reading, and then we went to East End Thrift (to recover from sticker shock). It was definitely a very ecclectic store, but had fantastic deals. I again exercised great restraint.

The rest of my day wasn't that exciting- I read. A lot. And I also looked up and found a bunch of books to use for my papers at the Senate House Library, which is kinda far away, but the books are at least there (contrast with the on-campus library where there is a waiting list of a million people since everyone in my classes need the same books). I'll be hitting that up tomorrow so I can get some serious work done on these papers.