One Lady in London: So Many Pictures!

Since the remainder of my time here in London is pretty much just down time with not much to do, I've been keeping a list of things around the city I still want to do or see and have been using the past week and a half or so to start crossing things off. Things I've successfully crossed off this week? The Peter Pan statue in Kensington, Camden Market, Greenwich, the O2, playing tour guide to my good friend from way back in the Forest Lakes Elementary School days, and rockaroke at this bar called Roadhouse. Sadly there are no pictures of rockaroke because Hannah and I did not think the 100 pound bar tab was big enough of a prize for us to get on stage, but I've been carrying my camera around all week to just capture as much of this amazing city as I can before I leave. I don't particularly feel like typing much longer, so I'm just gonna go ahead and add some photos and write anything you need to know about them in the captions.

Regents Park- my happy place in London, just minutes outside my doorstep.

The Camden Lock, heart of the Camden area of London. Camden is amazing, I'm so upset I just went there for the first time recently, even though I'm making up for it and went two times last week. I didn't take pictures of the "cool" part of Camden this time, but next time I'm there I plan to. It's a huge, 7 days a week market with a stable motif and giant statues of horses lining the roads, as well as every type of cuisine you could possibly imagine. First time I went there, I got food for lunch, shopped around, then got food to go which fed me for 2 days all for 5 pounds. It's incredible. You don't go hungry or broke in Camden- so essentially it's a student's dream.

Camden

Greenwich Market- Greenwich is an adorable little area just shortly outside of central London and it is just so picturesque. It feels like you're on Main Street, USA, not in one of the busiest cities in the world.

Cutty Sark- the last clipper ship built for tea trading, as well as the fastest at the time.

On top of the massive hill to get to the Royal Obsertatory- home of the prime meridian. Best view of London anywhere.

Part of Greenwich Park is being converted into the equestrian center for the 2012 games. Like everything else...no where near completion.

The Royal Observatory

The prime meridian. London's timezone is GMT or Greenwich Mean Time. Took me a good four months to put two and two together that London's Greenwich was the same Greenwich.

Casually straddling the world.

The O2 -absolutely huge. I knew the O2 hosted concerts, and knew it was one of the biggest concert venues in the world...holy crap I did not think it was this big. In the center of the dome is the actual arena, but surrounding that are dozens of movie theaters, shops and restaurants. It's like a mall/outdoor park/concert venue all in one. You could very easily spend an entire day just hanging out in the O2 and probably not see all there is.

Papa Gerbes came through and got me, Liz, Hannah and Lara tickets to see a screening of the movie LUV, which he worked on and was shot in Baltimore, at Sundance London.

One of the many supports holding up the O2 from the inside.

The actual O2 arena. There the night we went to Sundance? New Kids On The Block AND Backstreet Boys. Our thirteen year old selves were going crazy.

Finally we got a sunny day today, so Emily, Liz and I spent the entire day in Hyde Park picnicing, having photoshoots, riding the serpentine paddle boats, and getting sunburnt. That's right, sunbrunt. Never been so excited to be red before. Sunburn means its not raining in London.