Oh The Places We’ll Go

Erica and I finally made it to Greece after TOO long of traveling, bussing, flying, running, and falling all over the UK.  Everyone left the flat by the time Saturday rolled around, finals were done and papers were turned in.  Anna and I were the last 2 in the flat.  I’d been working on my jigsaw puzzle that finally came in, all 1,000 pieces by myself.  Oh, what an exciting life I lead.  Grabbed a cab at around 10:30 and headed over to the bus station for the overnight bus down to London.  Thankfully I got sat next to a sane, normal person and was close to Erica, who was across the aisle from me.  The girl I sat next to was from Calgary, and I talked her ear off.  I tend to do that to most people I travel near.  Cabbies.  People I sit next to.  I almost feel bad.  Almost.

Anyways, the bus was… a bus.  Long and boring, weird combination of smells and impossible to sleep.  My neck was hurting after a while of trying to fall asleep so I mostly just sat up and daydreamed until the 8 hours passed by.  We got into Victoria station at around 8:30 in the morning with a few hours to kill so Erica and I walked around London for a while.  We actually did a good amount of walking by the end of it.  We went from Trafalgar Square all around to Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament.  A lot of walking but a lot of re-sight seeing since we’d see it all before.  I took the HUGEST dive in front of one of the buildings near Buckingham Palace though.  Not only did I manage to trip and fall in the dirt, but like full on spread and roll onto the ground, afterwards dropping all of my change and saying, out loud, “My life sucks right now.”  It was insanely mortifying.

Will update more about Greece when I feel like paying the Euros to use the internet.  Very pretty here and no rioting yet!

-Catherine