The Weekend in London

Okay, most important thing first I guess. Betty goes to London and two other albums are up on my Facebook page so take a look. There are a couple more photos that need to make their way online but I think that the hundred and something shots up there should do the trick. Feel free to ask me what things are as I haven't put captions up on most of it.

It was kind of a nutsy weekend but I had a wonderful time and I think Zora did too. My like last week this will all be told in a few installments since I'm pretty beat and haven't unpacked yet.

Got to London without a hitch, except for a lot of traffic. We had a little trouble getting a cab to the hotel Umi from Victoria station since the cab company that had a booth nearest our gate hadn't heard of the place and I didn't know the address. A Google search later we found it and were on our way. Umi is a small, budget hotel that is very out of the way. This was made worse due to the Underground being partially down for maintenance. If that weren't the case the hotel would have been perfect. It was clean, comfortable, and the staff were fantastic. We checked in with no trouble and moved in to our little room.

On the advice of the reception desk staff we headed a few blocks over to get dinner at the Gourmet Burger Kitchen, a semi- famous restaurant that has won all kinds of awards for its food. The price was also great for London food. You walk in and are seated and handed a menu listing all kinds of wonderful burgers (beef, buffalo, chicken, veggie) and fries with sauce (besides ketchup blue cheese, sweet chili, satay, pineapple, and others are available), milkshakes (the oreo was amazing) etc. I had the satay beef burger, Zora the same but with chicken. The burgers were huge, thick enough to be a mouthful for me. Everything was done perfectly, thick and tasty. The fries were the size of my thumb, the blue cheese so chunky they broke off in it, and the sweet chili the right mix of spicy and flavorful. We had a great time.

After dinner we took a stroll and then went back to our room to indulge in an evening of British TV. We don't really watch TV too much at school so this was a real treat. We haven't done more than watch a few minutes over dinner since getting here so it was nice to be couch potatoes for a bit. We saw a lot of different shows. Never mind the Buzzcocks and How to Look Good naked were the favorites, though the music video for Cotton Eyed Joe came on so we had to pause for that!