Europe - London Day 3

I awoke in a bad mood - probably because I was getting burnt out. So I moved really slowly this morning. After finally getting ready, Jen and I went to the Oxford Story, which was a cheap amusement park ride inside a visitors center. It basically told the story of the unviersity. Rachel and Jordan suggested this - noting the best atributes were the chessiness and the smell of urine. We didn't notice the smell too much, and actually the ride gave a good background to the founding of the unviersity. Afterwards I bought a souvineer map in the store.

We then headed back to the hostel so we could catch the next train to London. Rachel was thinking about meeting us there that night, but I couldn't get a hold of her. So we just went to the station, and then back to Paddington. Oddly enough, some lady was attempting to get tickets for teh train when we were. She was also from Indiana - West Lafayette. Which was cool. We sat next to her on the train.

When we got back to the hostel, they decided to put us back on the sixth floor. Which sucked. But we made up for it by going to the south bank and taking a walk. This was fun. Just people watching, and street performance watching. We walked through the Tate Modern - whcih I'm not a fan of modern museums, per-se. But the Tate uses the idea of space pretty well. So it is fun to walk around and experiance the museum as a whole. We then wandered across the pedestrian bridge and then looked for a tube stop. It was back to the hostel.

We went across the street for some cheap Indian food that a flyer was being distributed for. So we got it take-away and ate it at the hostel. While doing so we met some Italian who said he would make food for us tomorrow and we could have an Italian party. So we were excitied about that. Afterwards, we asked our roommate to go to a pub that I had gone to in the past. It was a small band venue that was a good Indie Rock sight. Kara and I frequented the place all the time. I even found the pub right away - which never happened when Kara and I looked for it. She usually had to find it. This was also the place that we heard a band that Kara swore she had heard before. I thought she was crazy - until I heard their song on a commercial a few weeks later while I was in the states. I decided that the pub must be good since the small bands playing here were fans to a deoderant company.

Anyway, three bands played at the pub this night, and it was fun. I had some drinks and the bands were good. The last one seemed to be the bigger of the three. Afterwards we went to McDonalds and I had a cheesburger.

Then we went home and went to bed.