So I had been holding off on doing a lot of the touristy stuff in London till my parents came (cause they wanted to do all the stuff with me and my sister, and I'm not going to complain - they are footing the bill!) So after I got off work on Friday, I went home, showered and got dressed, and met my family at our friend's house. It was good to see them again :) We went out to eat dinner together at this indian pub place...weird I know. But the food was absolutely delicious. I had so much paneer. I think that is the most unhealthy food I've eaten since being here and I didn't even go to the gym! Oh well. Concessions must be made to see the family. And seriously. The food was absolutely delicious. That great spicy that gets you sweating just a lil bit but has you keepin on cause it tastes absolutely perfect. I also had this yummy passion fruit juice that was almost as if they had just given me the insides of tons of little passion fruits. I only comment on this because I think it literally is my favorite fruit in the entire world and I barely ever get to eat it. Really hard to find in the states ever since Kroger became no more :( Anyyyywho. Yes. Delicious food. Then they dropped me and my sister off at my place and went to drop my parents off at my mom's uncle's house, where they were staying. So I decided that because it was already pretty late, we would call this a chill night. We took my sister to Stanhope Arms, which has become our "go to" place for games and pregames and just hanging out for relaxed nights. She had her first taste of cider, and then she, pratik, shahar, and I walked around outside in South Kensington until the wee hours of the night not wanting to go clubbing but not quite wanting to go home....I've been having lots of issues with The Crofton lately. Every time I'm inside for an extended period of time without anything to actually DO, like a task or something, I start to feel claustrophobic. So I have been spending as little time in my room as is humanly possible. However, this makes for a very exhausted radhi at the end of things. I'm gonna have to get over this claustrophobia soon. Or figure out what brought it on. Or something. Anyways, we finally decided we had to walk back. Rachna and I were meeting mom and dad at 9 to start sightseeing so we got in bed and put glee on and I passed out in about .5 seconds. Nothing like the sweet sweet voice of Mark Salling to lull me off to sleep.
On Saturday morning we woke up, showered, got dressed, and headed out to meet mom and dad. We did a hop on hop off city bus tour, getting to London Tower first. This was one of the places I hadn't been yet that I was dying to go to....no pun intended. This is where Henry VIII had Ann Boleyn executed, among many other famous public executions. We took a guided tour and the history nerd inside me went nuts it was incredible. After the tower we took the bus to westminster pier and saw Big Ben, and Westminster Abbey. Then we took a boat to Greenwich where we saw the Prime Meridian line...oh wait I've already done that! haha oh well it was fun to go with the family. We also had a pretty bad ass lunch at this burger place that has all sorts of crazy burgers. Then we took the boat back to the bus stop and then went out to Marble Arch. After that we finally called it a day and Rachna and I headed back to my place. We washed up, got dressed, and headed out for food - I had the most alcoholic margarita I have ever had to date. Literally. Outrageous. Then we met Marissa, Shahar, and Pratik at that lebanese place Shahar and I had gone to to smoke some sheisha. But they were full. The guy from the night before clearly wanted to give us a table, but they didn't have any. So we went down the street to another one. The night just....eh....then I headed home and watched Boondock Saints :) Never fails to make me feel like a badass....for no reason at all.
Sunday morning woke up again and headed out again to meet the parents at the London Eye at 9:30. We did the eye, which was pretty damn cool, and got on right as the sun started to break through clouds, so I feel we were pretty lucky. After that we went to Buckingham palace to see the changing of the guard. It is a ton of ceremony and pomp and absolutely outrageously packed, but it was so much fun! We took pictures with guards and hung out and took pictures around the outside of the palace too. Then we headed to Madame Tussaud's wax museum. SO MUCH FUN. I thought I would absolutely hate it but I ended up having a blast. Then we had lunch/dinner/late meal and went to the British Museum. After that Rachna and I left the rents to go to Stanhope and watch the gameeeeeeeee. VIVA ESPAÑA! It was completely packed with a bunch of spaniards which made the game even more fun to watch! I pretty much can no longer speak as a result of that game. Then the rents came to pick rachna up because they were leaving for Scotland the next day. They also brought me food :) Pratik and I took the food back to the Crofton and hung out there a little bit. Then we went back to Al Arez. That is the name of the lebanese restaurant that Shahar and I went to the other day. They are amazing. It is a family run restaurant and the guy who seems to be the manager is one of the sweetest people ever. He seated us and continued to wait on us long after they closed. He apologized that they were too full for us the night before and made sure we had everything we needed. This was a nice change of pace from the place down the road we had gone to the other night before to smoke sheisha and the staff was blatantly just rude to us. They would not wait on us until we got pretty angry with them. and then it almost killed the mood. Anywho. As I said. We plan on becoming regulars at Al Arez. I told him so. And he sat and talked with us for a little bit. Then shahar came and met us there. We ordered even more food even thought the kitchen had long been closed (just cold food stuff he said they already had ready) and he didn't even charge us. This may be the one place in London I start tipping for good service. It was a nice way to end a fjaow;eifh;oawiefho;aiwhfwe weekend. Then we went back to the Crofton and passsseeeedddd out. I need to rest up. Im exhausted. Maybe I'll find the will to stay in the Crofton today after work.
Radhi
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