Adventures in London with Divya and Amy! :)

This weekend two of my best friends Amy and Divya came to London! They got to my apartment around 2:30 and we hung out for a little while until we had to go to the Ice Bar. The Ice Bar is what is sounds like it is a bad made of huge blocks of ice. They keep the bar at negative five degrees so before you go in they give you a huge cape with a hood and gloves && you get a free drink! You only get to stay in the bar for forty minutes which is actually fine because it gets super cold. Once we got in the bar we all got drinks which came in of course ice glasses which were fun but you had to wear gloves to hold it. I tried to pick my glass off the bar with my bare hand and the bartender told me that I probably would not want to do that...he was correct lol. After the Ice Bar we walked down Oxford Street to Top Shop and H&M. We shopped for about an hour and then we hopped on the tube and went to Tottenham Court Road and went to eat at CHIPOTLE! YUM Divya and Amy had not had Chipotle in over 2 months so they were super happy. After eating we walked back to my apartment and laid down for awhile so we could digest our food babies. Later that night we went to a bar called Punk where Jill a girl from AU who is also studying in London got us in for free and got us free wine and beer because she interns for their company. It was really fun and super nice of her to invite us. We also had a private table which was nice because it was farther away from the screaming people because it was..Karaoke night which is funny but can be annoying if they are super awful. After karaoke was over they played music from the 80s and 90s which was fun and we danced for awhile. After 3 hours we started to get tired so we left, walked home, bought candy, and made french fries (typical night) haha. The next day we woke up early and first went to Camden Market where Amy, Divya, and I spent a small fortune on jewlery, gifts, clothes, and other odds and ends it was the BEST!! After many hours at Camden we got on the tube and went to the London Eye. Before the London Eye we were planning on going to get fish and chips from a pub in the area but turns out there are almost zero restaurants in the area which seemed odd to me so we ended up eating at some bagel place that was not very good but it was cheap and filled us up. Then we went on the London Eye which was pretty cool and it lasts about 30 minutes. The only annoying thing is that an asain couple was basically having a photo shoot inside the capsule and it was driving us insane. But it was nice for Divya and Amy to see different parts of London that they were not going to be able to see because of their short trip. After the London Eye we went to Regents Park which looked different since I had last been there because all the trees leaves were changing, it was really beautiful. We walked through the park to the exit near my apartment and proceeded to go home because we wanted to lay down for a little while. Because we had not gotten fish and chips yet we decided to do that for dinner so I looked up the best fish and chips restaurants in London and found a great restaurant called The Golden Hind. I recommend it !!! The food was great but the restaurant on the other hand was super hard to find. We went to dinner around six and met up with Divya's friend Alexis who graduated from AU and is now going to grad school at UCL where I am going to school. She is super sweet and it was nice to meet someone else from AU and UCL. But before we got to the Golden Hind it took us about 35 minutes to find it because it is down some random road and by chance we found a huge map that showed us where the street was and we finally found it. BUT it was worth it because the fish and chips were amazing! I got haddock and Amy and Divya got cod which they said was really good as well. A funny thing about the restaurant is that you bring your own booze. They do not sell any wine, beer, or liqueurs only a few non alcoholic beverages. So people had their own six packs and bottles of wine which was funny. After dinner we walked home and hung out for an hour before we headed out to The Rocket which is a REALLY fun pub near where I live. They play music from 2010 which is rare in London haha and they have great drinks. We got a huge drink in a Disco Ball and then a pitcher of Long Island Ice Teas. Normally the Rocket is packed and all the tables are full but we got there around 9:30 which is early so there was a big table open which was great. We sat and talked and sang to the songs for awhile and then a guy came up and started talking to us and he told us he was in the British Army and he was funny and fun to talk to for a little while but then four of his other Army friends came over and pulled up chairs to our table and started talking to us and it was funny/annoying. It started to get more annoying when they picked Amy up were carrying her around and then they picked up Divya and thew her in the air which was actually really funny. I was smart and stayed back away from this but then one of the guys kept annoying me. At one point Divya told them that she was married and Amy and I told them we had boyfriends to try and get them away. But that would not deter them they proceeded to buy our table a bottle of champagne and then about 2 hours after sitting with us they kind of got the hint that we were not going home with them, they were not coming home with us, and nothing was going to happen so they left. THEN it got really fun because we could actually dance. Around 12:30 my friends Mimi and Genna came to the pub and it was super nice to see them because they had been gone the week before. & then randomly we saw some people from AU who are studying at the London School of Economics so it was an AU reunion. We stayed at the Rocket till it closed at 2 and then walked home and fell asleep. The next morning Amy and Divya left at 9:00 :( I wish they could have stayed longer but it was GREAT to see them!! I had missed them so much and in two months I will see them again!! This coming week/weekend my sorority sisters Jill, Veronica, and Helen are coming to London and the following weekend I am going to Spain with Veronica and Sam to see CHRISTINA( other family member) and MIKE RO! :)