On ctober 16th and 17th I spent some QT with Nadine. On Saturday afternoon we embarked upon a sightseeing journey around her area of London. Buckingham Palace is only abut a twenty or so minute walk from her flat we started there. Now, it is very cool that Queenie herself lives there. However the British should have taken a note from the French. Buckingham Palce doesn't even compare to Versailles. The most beautiful part is the gates and the squre in fro of the Palace, in my opinion. We walked all around the Palace by St. James park looking for the palace entrance. We missed the last tour by about ten minutes when we finally found the door that was barely marked.
Next we headed off to Westminster. Sha, Nadine's boyfriend actually attended high school there. When we were walking through the campus and parts of the church, we saw a group of boy students. They were wearing uniform and capes, it was so cute. Westminster is very cool and very old. Inside they have a mini museum of the old dresses and clothes of Kings and Queens. We were unable to go into the church because there was a wedding going on. We did see a huge group of guests and I decided I am making it mandatory for people to wear hats to my wedding. All the women and quite a few of the men had these ridiculously huge hats on.
Right near Westminster we saw Big Ben which was sweet, but not as big as one would think. We walked over to the Rive Thames and could see the London Eye. (you're probably wondering, Camille, all this and you haven't eaten yet? No worries, we had gotten sandwiches and chips from Tesco. Not exactly the crAziest meal, that came later in the night).
After returning home and refreshing, we headed out to dinner. Now, this is more correctly termed a FEAST. We went to Mandaloun, a lebanese restaurant nearby. First we ordered enough appetizers for four people, not two. There was lebnah, hummus, tabouli, olives, kebbah, and loaves of Syrian bread. Then we proceeded to get four kabobs and rice. I was so full but the food was so good and I had been missing it so much that I couldn't help myself. We basically waddled to the movie theatre, where we had tickets to Social Network.
I definitely recommend this movie to everyone! It gives you a very different insight to the history of facebook, what made it even better was that Nadine knew some of the characters in real life! I was dying... First the champagne party, now the celebrities. Apparently one of her friends form New York went to school with the Winkelvoss twins. They claim that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of facebook, stole the idea from them. That is one of two main plot lines in the movie. So go forth and watch! I always claim that Facebook is secretly the root of all of problems and it certainly spawned from a troubled background.
More to come on Sunday spent with Nadine and friends!
XO
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