day 1 in london

the day started early with a cab pick up at 7:15 from harry's place
our cab driver was an older guy that i guess speed delivered us to the station in less than 5 minute ( harry's estimate was about 20 minutes)

we bought our return train/bus ticket and hopped on a bus with chinese writing on them (likely same bus made as hk buses) that took us on a jouney for about 1.5 hour to london liverpool station.

we started to get bad service at the train station right away and the lady was too busy talking to a guy than to serve us and got us to get a 3 day pass instead of an oyster card

then we got to our cottage which angie called shabby and i called it absolutely lovely.

speeding out of check in and paying our 3 pounds for a locker, we headed out to monument station to catch the free new london tour

our tour guide's name was gregg and he was an aussie. The tour was alirght and indeed showed us a lot of stuff that we wanted to see on the outside.

(more on the tour later)

It ended at about 15:00 and we walked over the west minister bridge right to the london eye, got our ticket and boarded our "flight".

it was quite nice up there, then we headed back to our hsotel, got into our rooms, claimed bed, showered and then went out to meet patricia and her friend at chinatown.

we ended up getting chinese food, avermicelli dish, veggie with garlic, weird apple sauce breaded chicken (spciy) thing, ducks..

it was a good meal but pat and her friend ended up paying more than us.. no good >< owe them big time

we then got our tickets at queen's theater for les mis. wewere sitting dead center except i had a huge head in front of me.. that was quite sad.
i didn't really know the story so it was quite exciting to just watch it unfold in front of me..
the guy who played valjean was awesome, the marius was cute and i quite like corsett'es friend.
some great tunes that i recognized (not sure how i remember, but i remember doing something on this musical maybe for french class and didn't persue it)
angie and i both bought the cd set for it for 30 pounds each and i got a program because i loved the cast too much for 3.50 on top. It was quite good and i vowed that i must look for the piano score when i get home.. too much to carry if i get it now.

anyways, i should probably also mention that this walking on the left side of the road is throwing me off. I always get it wrong in the tubes and going down the stairs, whichresulted in near incidents of collision... tomorrow we'll be travelling bright and early with the rush hour traffic, hopefully i won't get squished...

tower of london tomoro! super exciting! oh not to mention= St John HQ yayyay!! looking forward to souvenir acquiring ;) that's for sure! weee ahh must also get postcards! anyways i love les mis... it brought tears to my eyes at the end.. maybe i share more about the musical later..

bye for now