Wow I must have really been tired, because I slept for 12 hours and didn't leave the hotel til 2 pm today. So much for my "out the door by 9 am everyday" rule. C'est la vie I spose.
I went to the London Zoo today, which was lots of fun. I've been to zoos before but I really wanted to go to the one here. I saw sleeping lions, giraffes, and penguins, oh my! Took some pics before my camera died, thankfully not before the giraffes. I'm so pissed, the travel adapter mom gave me doesn't work and my camera has an ion battery that needs to be charged. Joanne gave me a pack of adapters but I left them at home thinking mine would be fine. I thought wrong. Now I'm gonna get up bright n early so I can go buy an adapter at Boots, come back and charge it, shower and eat, then head out. My original plan was to wake up early and avoid the shower so I could visit more sights, but I guess I won't lose that much time...I've figured out the underground/buses much better than I did yesterday, when I got a bus, got off too early and wound up spending 10 quid on a cab just to get close to where I'm staying because I was so sore from walking all day. Looks like my shitty sense of direction is valid in all countries.
After the zoo, I realized I wouldn't make any of the other sites because it was 5:30 and most of them close then. So I decided once more, to shop. I visited the London Beatles Store and bought an Abbey Road bottle open/fridge magnet and the It's Only Rock N Roll shop (bought a beaded Bowie tee there). Both shops were amazing and I could have spent all my money on the rare LPs they both had. Someday.
Next I visited Oxford Street, probably one of the most famous shopping streets on the planet. I spent most of the time just gawking at things I wish I could afford, like the entire Selfridges store. My camera died in the zoo, but god I wish I could have taken pics of that store. It's like their somethingth anniversary so there were art exhibits all over the store commemorating the designers like Yves Saint Laurent who have had their collections featured there. I felt very out of places amongst the people working there, it was an absolute designer dreamland. Where else would you pay six grand for a watch? Some of the clothes in that place cost more than my university education.
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