jo { the american girl in my hostel room who said she'd go site seeing with me } woke me up by hitting the railing of my bunk lightly and going, "liz, liz we are such lazy american's get up. liz we're so lazy it's 1:00 PM let's go do something"
of course i laughed and rolled out of bed and within the hour we were out and about walking. jo navigated because i still don't have a phone and she'd gone walking the day before and knew the area better.
we walked alllll through the west end and down and around the river again. the weather was SO nice! blue sky's with a few clouds and just cool enough to be warm in a light sweater.
{ left: one of the streets in the west end, right: big ben }
from there we went more towards the mall { which is more of an area/street than an actual 'mall' } to get there we passed through a nice park area where a woman was feeding a squirrel. so naturally, i asked if she had any more peanuts. which she did. she gave me two -- one for now and one for later. and what did i do with those peanuts? i fed a squirrel. two actually and they both jumped up on my leg crawled up to my hand and took it right from me. jo got videos and a picture but i haven't been able to get them from her yet.
but when i do i'll be sure to share ! it was so awesome !
but when i do i'll be sure to share ! it was so awesome !
when we exited the park we were right by buckingham palace, and jo taught me that the queen actually doesn't live there. she lives in windsor palace. so i did not get to see the corgi's and i am sad about it.
after that we walked back to the hostel, and relaxed until cara came to meet up with us so we could go get drinks and talk to some new people upstairs. it was a good first 'real' day in the city.
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