Veronica and Helen in London!

Like I said in my blog posts before my friends Veronica and Helen visited London this weekend :) On Friday I met up with Veronica around 1:30 and we went to lunch at Chipotle because she wanted to eat Mexican food and that is the only place in London that I know serves Mexican food. We sat there for awhile and caught up on each others lives. Then we walked through China Town, Soho, Trafalgar square, past the horse guards parade, to Westminster, Big Ben, and Parliament. Afterwords it was getting cold and rainy so we got on the tube and went back to South Kensington where she was staying with her boyfriend Nate. We went to a French Cafe and I got hot coco and she got ice cream haha she was craving it even though it was 40 degrees outside. Then her boyfriend Nate got out of his internship early and met us at the cafe. After finishing out food and drink I left and went home and planned to meet them later at a pub. Around 9:30 I met them at the Rocket which is my favorite pub in London. We also met Helen one of our friends who is studying abroad in Germany. It was SO great to see her because I had not seen her since the Spring semester!! She brought along friends from her program who were also really nice. We hung out for 2 hours and drank. Veronica, Nate, and I had the disco ball drink again, and a pitcher of Woo Woo. Around 1:00 I went back to my apartment because I was tired and needed sleep. The next day (Saturday) Alyssia and I went to a cookie party hosted by Alyssia's best friend Camille's cousin Nadine. Alyssia has met her multiple times before and I had met her once when we went to her apartment to pick up some things. Her cookie party was a lot of fun. Everyone brings a different kind of cookie and when you leave you grab a bag and take one of each cookie to take home with you. We met a couple people and had a really nice time just talking and eating little snacks. After the party we went home for about 20 minutes and then got back on the bus to meet our friend Genna for dinner with two of her friends from home who were visiting. We went to a Chinese restaurant that we had been to before called the Hare and Tortoise. We ended up eating with 8 people because Genna's friends friends came too. We had a great dinner and then we went back to Genna's house and hung out. Then Alyssia and I again got on the bus for the 23437 time that day and went home. Normally our bus rides are pretty uneventful but this time these two men from Italy sat down next to us even though every other bus seat was empty. They tried to talk to us and we ignored them. Even when we would ignore them they would still continue to say things to us. After we did not respond for awhile one of the guys hit me. I ignored it but then the next time he tried to hold my hand so I told him to stop but he kept trying so I yelled stop three more times before I got up and moved seats. Then he continued to say things to us even though we were not near him. Getting harassed by guys is getting very annoying. I did not think it would be like this in London but it is. Everywhere you go whether it be across the street, to school, grocery store, pub, restaurant, bus, what ever it is you are harassed and it is 100 times worse when they find out you are American. Sorry for the rant it has just been bothering me a lot especially after last night. But I had a great weekend with all my friends and I wish I could have seen Helen more! I would say the same about Veronica but I am going to Spain with her next weekend!!! :)