WEEK 13 - LONDON - sunday 18 july - monday 19 july 2010

sunday today, and we met up with my friend Leanne and her boyfriend, she has been living over here for the last few years. we enjoyed a lovely stroll to the london eye, big ben, and westminster, then headed back to the waterfront to enjoy a stroll. 

it is so stinking hot, and we were forced to stop for cider [yet again another place that doesnt accept visa, travellers beware - the whole of europe will hate your credit card and demand cash. when you try to get cash out, the machines are few and far between, and when there is one, if its not out of order, it may just decide to hate you and not work for your card. we take the amount of cash machines in nz for granted! and the fact that everyone accepts visa]
we discovered this really yummy swedish cider, and we were hungry, so after another short stroll, we found another eatery and had snacks with more cider. yum!

we headed off at 5pm to go and meet another friend that i havent seen in aaaages, the lovely Alison, and we went to a nice bar and had iced coffee frappe thingys with kahlua in them, yum! hooray for happy hour. its been so nice to catch up with friends and just chill out. we cruised home and pigged out on scrummy sushi that hiriko made for us and just had a nice quiet evening :)

monday, last day in london! the time has gone so quickly! i spent the morning emailing, working and colour correcting travel piccies, and getting a few more pics of karika

then we headed out with hiriko for a frappe, then cruised over to hyde park to meet jo currie for a walk in the park, which was super lovely! then cruised out to aaaages away to the apple store to get me a new battery, cause my current one swelled up and became useless, so were able to swap it for a brand new one, even with no warranty or proof of purchase, just needed to make an appointment to take my laptop in! hooray! and they said if this new battery does the same thing, to take it and the receipt into apple, and swap it again for a new one. hooray! go apple! :)
then home, with the trains being delayed due to a fire at one of the stations, so a 45min journey took us an extra hour, not cool!, but we made it home in time to do our packing, hooray! new york tomorrow woohoo! :)