Sapna woke me up at 7:30 to hug me by. After that I couldn't fall back to sleep so I decided I just needed to spend the day doing and seeing everything possible one last time. I packed until around 10AM and then headed out. First I dropped off my library books then stopped into Cafe Deco for, what I thought, was my last time. The younger guy that works there actually seemed sad... such is life. I also was able to say goodbye to the small convenience store owner; he was such a cheerful person... he even laughed at my jokes (and that's unwarranted, lol).
I then went to the British Museum one last time to look at the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian exhibit. It brought me back to that first day where Chris, Heather, and I were ridiculously lost in our neighborhood. My next impulse was to go to TopShop one last time... I know... random, but they just don't have shopping meccas like that in the states, lol.
After shopping for an hour and a half I found the perfect top. Now THAT is closure, haha.
(I shamelessly took pictures of every single thing I saw this last day... probably 70 or so pics total, lol)
New topic... lol... I went back to Cafe Deco to eat lunch. I considered going with Katherine and Kaitlin to walk to the Tower Bridge, but I realized my feet were killing me. It was really sad; the owner gave me free coffee and gave me a hard time about leaving - I'm definitely going to miss Deco. After Deco I ran into Todd and David at Winston House. They had just gotten out of their exams (sucks for them! lol) and were heading to the Borough market. This market is crazy! It has every type of food or drink product you can dream of. Shoot... they had a selection of 20 different Christmas beers! You could also have ostrich, delicious cheeses, the best sausage of your life, around 25 different flavours of turkish delight, etc. Too bad I had eaten lunch... go figure... lol. It was still worth seeing.
David and I headed back, because I had plans to hang out with William. I ended up meeting him and Patricia in Leicester Square for dinner. I finally had Wagamama's... lol... idk how I hadn't eaten there before, but it really, truly is darn good Chinese food. It was so great seeing Patricia one last time and catching up. Then we all headed to Hyde Park to meet a big group of UNC students at the Winter Wonderland. Patricia had to head back, but the rest of us had a nice time. I'm still pissed all tickets to skate were sold out... but we had mulled wine and relaxed. Then the saddest point of the last night occurred... I hated saying goodbye to William. At least with the UNC students I know I'll see them around next semester whereas Arkansas and Louisiana aren't nearly as close. Haha, but it's all good... it's an excuse for a road trip...
Then it was back to packing. Sapna and I had accumulated 3 trash bags of food and random crap - it was impressive. Then it came time to deal with the extra alcohol; this was not acceptable, lol. No worries though, we finished it all :-) Todd had come in and asked if I wanted to walk around one last time - then we decided to turn it into a group affair.
(at Queen Elizabeth's gate to Hyde Park - my camera died soon after this, lol)
The walk was suppose to last an hour... haha, yea... it turned into 3. It was worth every bit of the effort. It was one last chance to sip on a Fosters in public, one last chance to get a picture of the theatre district, etc. We hung around Trafalgar for a bit then walked along St. James park to Buckingham Palace. We continued on to the Marble Arch and then onto Oxford Street. At the end of Oxford street I insisted on getting chips one last time from Dionysus, lol. It was a good decision. I look back, and this was the PERFECT way to end my trip. I didn't waste a minute of that last day.
Next morning we were up at 6:30... yes... it was painful. Thank god Heather is practically a saint and helped me carry my last trash bag up the stairs - it was broken and weighed around 20 lbs, lol. I'm so glad I was able to travel back with Heather. There were moments where I was sad, but overall it was one last misadventure before heading home. We got rid of our change during breakfast (i'm positive our waiter hated us). Then we fell in love with the Harrod's 2007 Christmas bears and bought them. So picture this... 2 college girls holding teddy bears.
That basically sums up our ride back. It was wonderful seeing my family. The first thing I ate off the plane was an Andy's shrimp burger. It was heavenly.
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