Here comes the... rain?

What an adventure!

Today, Katy and I woke up around 11 after another late night. Last night was the boat party, which was fun but a bit too long... four hours could have easily been cut down to two. The dragging on of the night could have perhaps been accentuated by the fact that the DJ played every song at least twice... not to mention he only played about five songs that weren't from 7 or 8 years ago. It was definitely an experience!

Anyway, we got ready for the day--our breakfast being half a roll each which we smuggled out of the dining hall last night--and it took me at least 10 minutes to decide whether or not I should wear my boots. The radar showed light drizzles all day so I decided against it. What I was thinking, I have no idea. Light drizzles somehow became decently intense rain shower

s. Nice. I guess I know for next time!

We hiked it to the tube station, only to find out that the Piccadilly Line was not stopping at King's Cross today. Great. We had to change lines at

Green Park station in order to get to the Victoria Line to take us to King's Cross. It was most definitely worth it, though, because...

Needless to say, it was the highlight of the day. There was even a sign that said, "Looking for Platform 9 3/4?" with a diagram of where it could be found! We weren't the only people taking pictures there, but we WERE the only Americans! The others were actually English!

After that excitement, Katy and I continued the journey to IKEA. Katy wanted nicer bedding than what we were given in our rooms. I wanted some cups for us to use for toothbrushes and pencils and drinking out of the sink. Super exciting. When we finally arrived at the tube station, we walked outside and saw a couple of different lines. The first was for the bus and the other was a mystery. We headed to the mystery line and asked what the line was for and fortunately, it was the IKEA shuttle bus line. We stood for about 10 minutes in the rain until the bus came. We were quite far back and didn't make it on the bus, which would have been fine... except that the driver said, "The next bus comes in 40 minutes." Ummmm... what?? So Katy and I decided to take the city bus (the other line) to the store. The only downside to that was that we had to pay. The bus came quite often though, so we figured we'd hop on quick and be there in a few minutes. Wrong. We waited probably 20 minutes for that bus until it finally appeared. We crammed on and realized we had no idea where to get off! Thankfully the people next to us were going there too and knew where to go (later, we realized that IKEA was a stop listed so no need to panic). We FINALLY got tot eat lunch (around 3:00)--I had pasta with ratatouille sauce, a roll, and a slice of apple pie! Yum :) we did our shopping quickly and headed outside to find the IKEA shuttle waiting to leave! We ran over and hopped on and got back to the tube station quickly. The ride home on the tube was uneventful except for the fact that we got to sit down! We hadn't realized that we'd been standing literally all day until we ate lunch. It had ceased raining by the time we got off the tube so we wandered back to the room and organized a bit. My desk is quite a bit cleaner now!!

We're about to head to dinner at the pub on the corner (fish and chips, here we come!) so I'll say goodbye. Check out Facebook if you want to see more pictures!

:)

Jackie