and then my feet were like "why are you doing this to us?"

Yesterday, I walked around Regent’s Park for about two hours.  Regent's is really beautiful, but I don’t think my existence has ever experiencing walking so much.  I was trying to meet up with a friend (it was her last day in London), but after searching for her for two hours I headed back to my dorm and realized I had misunderstood things…so then we met around my area and got some smoothies.  And then we said farewell!  I’ll see her again in a month, though.  Yay Texas.

Today!  Woke up at 11:00AM, ate a quick breakfast, wriggled into some clothes, popped on my new shoes from Peacocks (only 10 pounds!), scurried down the stairs and made my way outside.  I walked over to the Old Spitalfields area (after making a wrong turn and fighting some crazy wind/rain combination) to meet up with some friends (more like friends of a friend) for lunch.  A mutual friend back in Texas brought us together, but after conversation started I felt like we had always been friends.  I really enjoy meeting new people.  There’s something eye-opening about crossing paths with people who don’t belong to your “circle.”  We ate at Scarlet Dot and parted ways, but not before snapping a couple of photos together.

Took the tube over to Knightsbridge and met up with a friend at Harrods.  Harrods is probably the most extravagant store/place/everything I’ve ever seen.  It’s like all the luxury stores packed into one building.  Everything is priced ridiculously high.  The most entertaining part of the store was the “Egyptian Escalators.” They was decorated very ornately and even had a woman signing from a balcony…in a room full of escalators….

We did some souvenir shopping afterward, walked around Hyde Park, picked up some more souvenirs from an Olympics store, and ended the day with a tasty dinner at Tortilla (as my friend put it, the British version of Chipotle).  Good day!