Nicole’s Birthday

This weekend was fun! It was Nicole's birthday so we let her decide what we were doing all day.  At 12 o'clock, we finally set out for Central London.  We hopped on a bus to get the train to get to the tube station. Goodness, it was an exhausting trip just for that.  
We got off at Earl’s Court station and found the TARDIS that comes from the show Doctor Who. It was great fun and so fulfilling for the nerdy me.  I bought a few souvenirs and then we got back on the train to go to Regents Park.

 
After wandering through many passages and trains, we got off again at Baker Street.  That’s right, the home of Sherlock Holmes. The train station was dedicated to him on the walls and outside. It was pretty cool.  They had different scenes from the books on the walls and this was the tile mosaic:

And a nifty statue:

Then we headed into N’s favourite park-Regent Park.  I’ll admit, it was a lot cooler than I was expecting it to be.  They had a ton of different types of roses there that had funky names. My favourites were: Razzle Dazzle, Peace (which, by the way had all been cut down), Sexy Rexy, Singin’ in the Rain, and Ice Cream.

While walking through the park, we came across this old man. 

He was just minding his business feeding the pigeons around him and the one little squirrel that was sharing his bench. The squirrel was SO FRICKIN CUTE! He would sit at the top of the bench, run down and take the piece of corn from the guy’s hand, run back up to the top of the bench, eat it and repeat the whole process again.  I got SO excited by it because it was adorable. As we were walking past, the squirrel did it again and I made a noise.  The guy asked me if I wanted to do it! The answer was YES!!!!

So. Happy.

After I tore myself away from the squirrel, we left and went to a pub for dinner. We headed to Hyde Park for Winter Wonderland. It was very fun! There were rides, and games and booths selling stuff. I bought a little piggy for 50p. It’s cute! We didn’t dare go on any rides but all the people around definitely warmed us up.

Stephanie, Danielle and I trying on silly hats

The four of us, Danielle, me, Nicole & Stephanie

We left, got on the tube to get on a train to meet some other people from Butler Court (BC) at a pub.  Well, the place we got off at was a little shifty looking, and had three roads to choose from for the pub.  We walked down all three, texted for directions and decided we’d get on the train and meet the people in Goodmayes, the next stop over.  

As our train was pulling away, I said, “There’s the pub we’re supposed to be at!”  So we got off at the next stop and got on a train heading back in that direction.  We walked down the road in the direction we thought we were supposed to be headed only to get ten minutes down the road past a creepy cemetery to find out we hadn’t chosen the right road.  We finally got there and had a good time. DSI left at 11:40 so we could catch public transportation home.  While we were waiting in Romford to get our bus, we saw a FOX! It was just hanging out on the street. We were very worried for it but DI went to Romford again today and didn’t see any fox shaped road kill so we think it’s okay.

Today, Danielle and I went to Romford and bought plants. We're going to see who will be able to keep them alive the longest. Should be fun!