Well Merry Merry Christmas everyone!
This week and month have flown by so quickly, my time here in London is coming to a close. Its sad but I am ready to head of to Paris. But first here is a quick recap since last time. I ended on Wed and so I will begin with Thursday. i have realized that my days have all become mixed together and so I will try my best to remember everything and their appropriate dates. I must start writing it all down each day but by the end of the day I am tired and just want to sleep. Any who thursday we took a trip down to see the Tate Britain. I would suggest to see well in general all the musuems in London are free to go in and so if you are here go see them all if you are here for a period of time. There was art that was really old and then there was some freaky weird modern art. Later that day Beths family went out and so they said that us three girls ( Christy, Brianna and I) could stay and hang out in their flat. So we got our laundry from the hostel, picked up frozen pizza, chips dounuts and reeses and had a girls night. We watch 27 dresses, chilled and just hung out untll it was time to head back. The thing was that the washer/ dryer wasnt working so our clothes were still soaking wet after 2 hours of drying so we took them back to our hostel where I stayed up till 1 finishing and drying them.
Friday was Beths birthday and so we spent the day with her doing what she wanted to do. So stop number one was Primart. If you have never heard of this place, let me put it like this, it is a massive clothing/ everything under the sun shop that Zach bought his wonderous tiger onsie at or you can buy cheap anything thing really. I got some much needed warm nylons and leggings and a few head bands and a pair of shoes to go with a dress. We then continued our shopping where I bought new walking shoes that were a good price. Later we went and hung out at Beths went out for really good greek food. It was a different way of doing it. You sort of all order appies and share them among the table it was yummy, I wasnt really that hungry or feeling a hundred percent either. I also had ginger beer for the first time, which isnt beer its this pop kinda like ginger ale but stronger and more gingery and I shared a greek yogurt with rasberries and honey with Christy, So the two lactose people shared a highly dairy concentrated dessert. To put in a gross note here it just ment after we could have started a forrest fire if you got a match close to the two of us.
Saturday being Christmas Eve, the Tuckers went out to see a show and so me and Brianna were left to our own devices. So what else do you do on Christmas Eve in London. Well of course you go to one of the biggest department stores in London one that, you could afford none of it. We went and visited the one and only Harrods. It was fantastic, if you ever get a chance go go go see it. 5 stories of amaziness, clothes that cost a fortune. A jacket for a baby that cost a 1000 pounds do the math in canadian and its insane. I touched designer clothes, for adults and for children. I laid my hands on things I could never buy, but wish i could. I did some in my head shopping. i wanted to have a house to decorate and a baby to dress and a reason to wear a gown with amazing heels. It was wonderful probably most girls dream. I loved it. Me and brianna where in heaven. Side note I saw sugar cubes in the shape of hearts, insane right they were like 15 pounds. They also came in little silver balls and frogs and everything you could imagine. We finished Harrods in 2 hours or more and then decided to wander so we tubed to St Pauls, walked around there and saw protesters and long lines. We walked across the millenium bridge and walked along the river. The best part was as we were trying to find a tube again we saw the London eye with the sun going down behind it and we could see a bit of Big ben. the sky looked like it was on fire. It was amazing, as we were walking acorss the bridge to get to Big Ben and westminsiter abbey we took some amazing pictures of the sun going down behind it. So sweet and amazing. Later that evening we went to Christmas eve evening service at this local church, it was angelican/ catholic, which was really neat to see and hear. It was a lot different of a service from anything I was used to ever seeing.
And then there was Christmas, which was really good, I wasn't sure how it was going to be, with being away from home and being in a hostel and just not being anything like normal. And yeah it was quite different, We slept in took our time went our for breakfast to the only open place anywhere near where we are staying. We went back to the hostel, hung out read, and then watched some episodes of Community and then had pumpkin soup for lunch with Christmas cookies that we had bought the other day. We had to walk to the Tuckers flat, because the subway was closed for the day. It was only like a half hour walk, it wasn't bad, we took the long way so it was more like 45 mins. We got the flat and watched the queens message and played some Uno where I won and I wasn't really even paying attention. I then got to talk to Zach on Skype which was really really nice. We helped make Turkey dinner and then I got to call my mom and talk to her and my brother on the phone. It was such a comfort and I enjoyed it when you don't get to be home for the holidays, you realise just how much you wish you were there. I can only imagine how different it is for my family back home to not have me there for Christmas plus my sister Bailey is not coming home for Christmas this year so it was I am sure a rather quiet Christmas. We spent the rest of the evening drinking tea and coffee and watching Christmas things. We watched the cartoon version of The Grinch and then The Christmas episode of Glee. I got to talk to my dad and step mom today which was really good. Overall the day turned our pretty decent.
And then today we are off to Paris to spend 5 days there. Wish us luck and continue to pray for my group of travel buddies. We are heading off on a train later tonight and will arrive late in Paris and then taxi to our hostel which hopefully we find. I am a little bit nervous but I am very excited and I am sure once I get there it will be all good. I am sure my hostel could not be nearly as bad as sleeping on the ground of a circus tent, which is what my mom and dad tell me they did when they travelled. So I just have to continue to pray and have faith and trust that everything will work out just fine. We are also meeting up with Zach in Paris, he comes in on the 27th so just pray for his safe travels as he is travelling alone.
I will continue to keep you all updated as much as possible. I am missing you all very much and hope you guys had a marvellous Christmas wherever you were and who ever you were with because I realised Christmas is more then just about the presents and food, its about the people who are with you and about the birth of a wonderful Jesus. Happy Christmas as the Brits would say.
Love Moriah
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