Zeeba Neighba

Mar. 9th, 2009 at 01:31 am |

There was a "UV Rave" at Drapers Friday night, which was really, really, really fun, though it resulted in me staying up way too late dancing, wearing white and neon colours, glowsticks, and neon facepaint (it looked awesome in the blacklight!).

I got a grand total of two and a half hours of sleep before I rolled out of bed and onto the tube to go meet Ha at Heathrow; I completely passed out when I got on the Picadilly line, and almost didn't get off at the stop for Terminal 2, which would've been disastrous. (Not really, I would have just had to go back a bit and been even later than I was).

We chatted a bit on the way back, though I fell asleep standing up on the last leg of our journey, and we both crashed for a couple hours until we got woken up by a text asking if we wanted to go to the London Zoo. So we did!

The zoo was pretty awesome, there were animals and they were cool. Vanessa and I watched baby monkeys playing around, and we all went into the Reptile House and saw where a scene from the Harry Potter movies was filmed, though I was very disappointed that I looked at every snake in the place and there was not a single Brasilian boa constrictor. What a waste of me getting creeped out. Apparenty when Harry helped him escape, there was no replacement.

Kevin and I enjoyed watching the giraffe stick his head over the fence to say hi to his Zeeba Neighba, and we all spent a little too long watching the penguins waddle around adorably. One of them fell in, it was cute.

After an epically long trek around the park, we managed to navigate the underground closures and get to Byron for burgers. The place is a bit overpriced to me, but I was hungry, so whatever. When we got back to campus, we met up with a big group of people and went to the New Globe and then Hayfield's for Damien's birthday, which was really fun.

Ha and I slept in today to make up for the lack of sleep yesterday, and then we went to the British Museum. It started pouring whilst we were on the tube, so it was really fun walking around the chilly museum slightly dampened. We're definitely on an equal museum going level, where we wander around and investigate what looks really interesting a bit more closely, but don't insist on seeing everything.

We came back and did some work and made dinner, and watched an episode of the Office, and then I decided to take her to check out Parliament at night, since that's really pretty. It took a while to get there, again thanks to line closures, and we walked around, took some photos, and then just missed the last train. Following our study abroad advisor's advice, we found our way to Trafalgar Square via bus; however, none of the buses that go to Queen Mary leave from Trafalgar Square, so that advice was sort of worthless. We took another bus to Bank (after asking the driver for advice), and went to wait for the 25. We just missed one, so were really excited and cold when another 25 came along ten minutes later... only to be out of service. Growing colder, Ha started showing me a partners' jig she learned in a dance class, and the one other person waiting for a bus was watching and laughing.

We finally caught a bus and got back to QM, and are slowly thawing out with the aid of hot chocolate. Yumm!