Yesterday I went downtown to see London on Christmas Eve. It was very cool, but also very crowded. Oxford Street, one of the really popular shopping districts, was jam-packed with last minute shoppers. So for about four hours I just walked around to see what I could see, as it were. I walked through Regent’s Park to see the Queen’s Rose Garden, realizing only when I got there that—oh hey—it’s the end of December and there probably aren’t going to be too many flowers blooming. Still, it was a nice place.
From there I found my way to Baker Street, and I was really excited when I saw the Sherlock Holmes museum. Earlier this semester, I’d started reading some of the Holmes stories, so going through the little house-museum was really neat. Yes, I know he’s fictional, but still. There were lots of little pictures and odds and ends from all the stories laid out around the house, and they even had those creepy wax figures. All the museums here seem to thrive on those. Yeesh.
After that, I finally found my way to Buckingham Palace. And, while it’s cool to able to say that I’ve seen it, it wasn’t what I was expecting. I mean, it’s a beautiful building and all, but I was expecting it to be flashier, I suppose. There weren’t even any of the Queen’s Guards with the funny hats. The monument out front was really gorgeous though. And like I said, now I’ve seen it.
Then I joined Gabby and another of our friends, and we went to dinner. (We went to Nando’s, which has the most hilarious chicken-shaped logo ever.) By then it was proper dark, so we walked down the main streets for a bit looking at the Christmas decorations. I got a few pictures of the ones on Oxford Street, but I’d forgotten to charge my camera batteries (d’oh!) so my camera died around that point. I still got lots of good pictures during the day, though.
Christmas Day has been pretty quiet so far. We had originally planned to go to a friend’s party in London, but the Underground doesn’t run on Christmas, so we couldn’t get there. We also forgot that all the stores are closed and that we have little to no food in the flat. Thus, our Christmas cuisine was…creative: fajita-spiced rice for lunch and cous cous salad for dinner. Unconventional, but excellent—much like my Christmas this year. :D
I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas!
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