Last weekend was completely self-indulgent. I spent Friday night to Sunday night in London, gorging myself on epic Indian food and overpriced but delicious drinks, giving in to each and every tourist impulse to take a picture, bingeing on more sightseeing than I thought was possible for a weekend, and relishing in my American-ness with Emily and Annie from back home. I spent too much money. I couldn't open my eyes wide enough, everywhere we went. Although it was a long haul, it has only made me infinitely more excited for the rest of my travels to come. For now, here's a few highlights of particularly memorable moments.
My obligatory phone booth photo-op
Annie, Emily, and Big Ben
Hailey and Kelsey by the gate in front of Buckingham Palace
Me, Kelsey, Hailey taking a break from sightseeing in the Dickens Inn Pub
Since I've been back, the past few days have been spent in recovery from relatively sleepless nights and long days of supporting London's economy with our tourism. I like it here more every day, but it's been a slow process getting used to everything. It's not easy for me to be myself around people I've just met, or even people I've known for a little while. I'm going to spend the next four months figuring out why I can be so loud and obnoxious and particularly insane and weird with some people and so shy that I'm uncomfortable around others. Be all introspective & stuff. I love meeting people and hearing their stories, but until I feel them out and get to know them... for an unspecified amount of time, sometimes forever, I particularly loathe sharing things about myself. I prefer to keep it surface and sarcastic, I'm from Arlington and I'm on the swim team and I have a dog and a cat and a family of weird tall giant people. Here, I think I have to get over it, really. Being here is definitely helping, I think.. Now that I'm out of my comfort shell, or whatever :)
Blog out. xx
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