Simon Cowell

A bunch of us went for a really nice walk today. It was pretty sunny out, and not ridiculously windy. We started at the Houses of Parliament and looped our way around, and were going to go into Westminster Abbey but they were having a mass soon so weren't letting people in, and we didn't feel like going to church. I ran into Carrie who had come into town for today, which was really nice, so we chatted for a few before she and Mark went in to the Abbey (they decided to go to mass) and my friends and I moved on down the street towards Trafalgar Square.

We stopped along the way to watch and see who was going to come out to a black Bentley... it ended up being Simon Cowell, which was really cool, followed by Ant and Dec. I guess we accidentally stumbled upon an audition site for "Britain's Got Talent." It was pretty exciting, actually. We waved to his car when it U-turned and drove by our side of the road. Yes, I know I'm a tool.

I climbed on a lion in Trafalgar Square. It was a project- we made Kevin jump up on the base of Nelson's column to help pull us shorties up, and then he had to give all of us a leg up onto the lion itself, but it was SO WORTH IT. I felt SO COOL. Seriously. It was way fun, and I want to do it again someday!

We walked from there across the Thames and down along the other side, past a lot of cool street performers (their three/four person bands sound like a lot more performers than that, they're crazy good! And the living statues were pretty fun, I got a photo of a really funny one). They also had a crazyawesome book market.

We crossed the Thames again via the Jubilee walkway, and went up to St. Paul's (gorgeous in the sunset, by-the-by), and went in a little bit, but a lot was closed off due to mass. We're going to go back again sometime soon when we haven't been out walking all day, and go up all the way to the top of the dome. It's going to be killer. (Seriously, though. It's going to burn.)

Since I was starving, we went to this place called Byrons, which had good burgers and shakes (little too pricey for my liking, but I was hungry and it was yummy). After that, Vanessa, Caitlin, and Trisha (Vanessa's friend) and I went to see Revolutionary Road. It was good, but definitely quite depressing and frustrating (which I guess was the point). I still think my favorite character was the old deaf dude, especially for the scene at the end.

The ride home was fun- we got to ride at the front on the top level of the double-decker bus.

We were going to play cards with USC Kevin and his flatmate Dave (we'd knocked on their window to invite them along to the movie, and they told us to stop by after), but were all too tired (slash I can't stop coughing). We knocked to tell them we weren't coming in, and Dave answered the window with a bathrobe tie around his head (a white one with purple and pink stars on it) and told us that everyone was ninjas in there, and we had to get our own ninja head cloth things (too tired to think of the name) if we wanted to come in. He also told us that every man has a pink and purple star bathrobe.

Needless to say, entertaining day.