Countrysides, Quaysides, and Footpaths

We headed back to London to wrap up our last tour and to meet my second cousin Miriam. Instead of bringing a change of clothes (to my dismay), Mom and I brought one outfit to last us two days in the city. While George was visiting. I did not let him stop me from enjoying my time in the city.
We rode the tubes to the footpaths in Hyde Park and saw the vast expanse of green along with some of Yoko Ono's art gallery. After putting my wish on Ono's tree, Mom gushed that we MUST go to Harrod's and start shopping. What I didn't realize was that Harrod's was full of Gucci. Prada. Luis Vutton. On six different floors, along with other ridiculous overpriced foregin names. Once we finished our cheapest shopping spree ever (we bought zilch!) we headed over to one of the nicest places called Covet Garden to meet Miriam and have an italiano dinnero. The next day, Mom and I jumped on a bus to take a tour of historic and modern London. The tour guide was better from the first in a few ways; this one kept me awake, looked like an older version of Adam Redding Kaufman, and had a Mary Poppins umbrella!

Every girl dreams of being a Princess. The closest I got to being the most important girl in the world was at Yoko Ono's chess board...but then again, I never had that dream until I saw the Crown Jewls. H O L Y Q U E E N! One hundred fifty (atleast) carat diamonds, emeralds, rubys, you name it, the crown's have it. Tucked away behind steel doors, they reside in the London Tower that also has a splitting (literally) torture chamber. Oh yeah, don't forget the bearskinned army guards standing infront of all the doors. It was a good day until England's rail system failed us. Twice. Once, we were, as my Mom described it, "packed like sardines" in the tubes, and the next delayed a full hour at a random train station outside waiting for another to pick us up to head back to Ipswich in the freezing cold. I was wearing a skirt.

Anywho, we spent the rest of the week in the countryside. We met up with Miriam's friend only to introduce ourseleves as Aunt Miriam, Miriam, Myriam, and Isabel. Similar? Nah. The countryside is absolutely gorgeous, and I want to live there. Cottages are everywhere you look, in all different shapes and sizes. The three Ms and I walked along a huge estate that consisted of a giant brick tower, enormous trees, and hundreds of deer. Yep, deer. Antlers. Bambi. Staggs. Mom, of course, was frightened one was going to ram us, until she realized that they run away from humans, not to them.

That was one of the many trips we did during the week to the countryside, along with trips from the seaside to the quayside. Do you know how to pronounce quay? KEY. Do you know how to pronounce queue? CUE. Theres two fun facts for the day!