London. Again.

London in 36 hours. Whoah.

Julie and I had both been to London on seperate occasions, I went back in October and Julie had started the month earlier with five days on her own, so it was not essential that we had to see all of the tourist sites but tone thing was essential. We had to see David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing.  Most of you know my unhealthy obsession with Doctor Who and the chance of seeing my two favorite actors from Doctor Who playing my two favorite characters in my favorite Shakespeare play, was not something I was going to miss. To get lottery tickets you normally wait outside of the theater about two hours before the play, but instead this theater had tickets out on lottery at 10:00am. Julie and I had to get  from my friend Amber's house in North London down to central London so we left at 9:00, our host too drugged up from her recent surgery to come with us. (I promise I will come back Amber and we can have a great time!) After waiting in the lottery we got one ticket and one standing room ticket and I will say it was the most fun I have ever had watching a play in my life. They placed the play in the eighties, but kept the traditional dialouge. It was brilliant. Catherine Tate and David Tennant did such a good job and they have such over the top acting styles that it was very appropriate for a Shakespeare play.

 Now comes the complicated stressed running around part. After we got the tickets at 10:30 Julie insisted that we go get pictures in front of Big Ben because she didn't have a camera before.

Voila. 

After we ran around getting these pictures with a disposable camera because we forgot to charge the camera, we of course had to go Hogwarts briefly.

 After we got back from Hogwarts it was getting late and we had to head back to Amber's house to pick up our luggage. Here was the stressful, costly, part of the whole day: We had to check my luggage at the train station while we were at the show because the show wouldn't get out until 10:30pm and we had to get Julie on a train by 11:00pm to get her to the Birmingham Airport before the last train left, even though her flight didn't leave until 8am the next morning. She spent the night in the airport.

After making sure my sister was on her way, I took my bags (no wheelies, just fifty pounds of dufflebag) on the tube to get to a shuttle stop and I arrived at my airport at 2:00am for my 9:00am flight. I spent the night in the airport.

Our day in London was hectic and stressful but amazing all the same, a pretty good example of London itself.

She was making a David Tennant Face. FYI.