Roberts Week

Where to begin? I left off last time updating through Monday night so here is my attempt to re create this week.

On Wednesday, we had a big paper due, which put a small damper on the things we could do on our day off.  So, much of Tuesday was spent writing a paper and then meeting up for Evening Song at Westminster Abbey.  The Abbey is a little under construction for the big wedding so we had to sit in the very back.  It made it hard to understand the songs and prayers which was a little tough to pay complete attention but overall is was a cool experience.  After mass, we headed over to Piccadilly Circus to show the Roberts and Roane's around the Time Square area of London.  We had dinner over there and then came home to finish editing the paper.

Wednesday, we had class in the morning and then took the clan up to Camden, which is a northern area of London with massive amounts(city blocks long) of famous markets.  We spent a good amount of time up there, most of the time eating the delicious foods they offer there, before we had to come home for night class.  However, on the way home we decided to show them Hyde Park and Kensington Palace, but got side tracked.  As we got off the tube on the Hyde Park Corner tube stop, we noticed copious amounts of Police Officers patrolling the area. It was quite odd, and I went up to ask what was going on.  They said everything was fine, but I could tell there was something suspicious going on.  As we walked no farther than 50 yards ahead we saw big TV cameras and groups of people gathered.  We could hear loud chanting noises.  I immediately went up to ask the TV man what was going on and he just pointed at the top of the building and said it was the Libyan Embassy.  As I turned to look, I saw men on top of the roof of the building waving Libyan flags.  I talked to the camera guy and found out all sorts of stuff.  They were protesters trying to get the UK involved in Libya to help out what was going on.   They had climbed up scaffolding the night before and said if any police tried to get them down they would jump.  We sat there and watched for about an hour before we had to go to class and as we were there we noticed the number of bystanders and protesters grew exponentially. Anyways, we left and went to theater class where we saw a play on Global Warming.  It was alright, nothing special.  We met up with the Roberts and a bunch of people from our theater class at a local pub we frequent before heading home.

 Thursday we had class early in the morning and then met up with the clan and headed down to Brixton where we showed them our favorite pizza place.   The pizza is a lot of that you would see in Italy and very good.  After that, we headed to Oxford Street, which might be the down fall of me, shopping with 4 women.  The only plus was Jay was here so we wondered around the stores trying to keep ourself sane by guessing prices and thinking of stupid things we could sell that people would buy.  This went on for about 3 hours before we got to go to a pub.  Guiness time! We meet up with some people from our flat and had a great night to St. Patty's day.  Ended up being a great week.

Today, we woke up and took the clan out to the airport to say good bye after a great week.  It was hard to say good bye and send them on their way back home but it had to be done.  Tonight, there are only about 5 of us in the flat because people are off traveling, some to Ireland, others to Paris and what not.

Anyways, that is the week in a short review.  Thanks to the Roberts and Roane's, it was a blast showing you around.


Cheers

Jimmy