Borrowed Angels

Quote: Think of me, think of me fondly when we’ve said goodbye.
Song: The Phantom of the Opera
Mood: Sick and sad.

Friday was the last day that Lisanne and I spent in London. Well, we didn’t spend a lot of time there. The sun comes up ’round seven, I turn to face the wall… And then the alarm went off and I had to wake up. I didn’t really want to, as I had only had about 4 hours of sleep. so I thought ah well, I can stay under the blankets for a little while. Ilse came in and Lisanne woke up and we talked a while. Then it was really time to get dressed and pack the last few things (like my phone charger mustn’t forget that!). When we were all packed and ready to go, we left for the underground and passed that little Italian deli. Lisanne wanted to get some bread from there, but it was rather busy and they didn’t have the bread she wanted. So we left XD

We took the tube back to Victoria, almost missing some of the tubes because it was really busy (at one point the train was so full, I didn’t have enough time to get on, so I had to jump and the doors closed behind me ) And when we arrived at Victoria, we went to get some Starbucks, since it was the last one we could get. I wasn’t feeling much like coffee, so I had a Frapp instead. I was way too hot from the tube (I felt like I was claustraphobic almost, it was that packed) so the Frapp was a nice cool down. We walked towards the coach station and had to find the right bus (we were left, bus was right… hilarious) and talked for a while before Lisanne and I were able to get on. We said goodbye to Ilse (Up Yours!!) and then the bus drove us to the airport.

I was just about to fall asleep when I realised we had arrived at the airport (the trip was an hour and 20 minutes, but felt like half an hour… maybe I did fall asleep?) and we quickly got our bags… or would have if some jerk hadn’t put his heavy suitcase on top of my bag. I’m just glad nothing broke. When we had our stuff, we went to the bathroom first and ran in to about 60 people dressed up like Robin Hood and his Merry Men, like… wtf? O_O We ran in to them everywhere! In the bathroom, at the security check, at the gate… I’m just glad that they weren’t on the same plane as us. It would have been a nightmare! Tho, I wasn’t sure how the one dressed as a bear got through security o.O

We also discovered that Ryan Air can be a bit difficult about hand luggage >_< I had a tiny pink backpack, the size of a chihuahua and I HAD to put that in to my bag or else I wasn’t allowed on the plane. Then they told us we all had to queue accordingly. But NO ONE had a priority ticket, yet we still had to stand on the side of “other Q” I mean come on! No one is stepping forward for priority, what difference does it make then? None what so friggin ever right?

When we had our tickets checked, we stepped in to the hall and had to wait for another 10 minutes before they opened the door and allowed us to walk to the plane. seriously… -_- But then we quickly got on the plane and sat down. Turned out we had seats next to the Steward, which was rather funny. The Steward, named Zsolt, looked like he was about to laugh, so I mentioned it to Lisanne and we talked about it, hahaha. And when he put on his life jacket, he tugged on the string. Lisanne and I looked at each other and made this “whoomp” motion as if the life jacket would inflate XD but Zsolt saw it and then he really did burst out laughing. Which he tried to hide… but failed, bahaha So we burst out laughing too and it took us a while to stop And later on Zsolt came back and asked if we wanted to buy scratch cards, which we didn’t, but he kept waving them under our noses, hahaha.

The flight itself was aweful tho, we had a lot of turbulance and we were flying so high that Lisanne and I had real trouble with the preasure on our ears. It hurts like hell -_- But at least we landed on time and there was this silly music and speech because of it.  When we went through security again and arrived in the hall of the airport, Lisanne got a message from her dad that he was delayed because a bus caught on fire and he was in a traffic jam for about an hour. But we only had to wait for half an hour for him to arrive. Enough time for us to play with the weighing scale (Lisanne had an overweight on her luggage as she was carrying 12,5 kilo and I didn’t even reach the 10 kilo’s, bahaha plus  had a heavy camera in my bag). We saw Zsolt walking by, but he didn’t see us (thank god! hahaha).Her father called to say he had arrived and we walked outside, got in the car and drove to Lisanne’s house. We had a very nice and simple dinner there and her brother was playing the trompet (I recignized the music as Mission Impossible and Star Trek ) then him and Lisanne played Any Dream Will Do and Phantom of the Opera together with Lisanne on her flute ^_^

We downloaded all the pictures to her computer so she had them already and then around half past 8, I had to take the train home. I arrived around midnight because there were delays everywhere ( I think some nutball jumped in front of a train again… ugh )

All in all, I had a very good time in London and this certainly needs repeating I love seeing my gals and Paul, Tom, Ashleigh, Dianne, Katie and Melany. London is the city of friends and music!

Love,
Mo

Quote: Up Yours!
Song: Think of me
Mood: High on high notes!

Hey peeps,

this will be my last London blog for the time being. Today was the last full day we spent in London and it was great. We were a little lazy in the morning with getting ready, so we desided we weren’t gonna go to see Billy Elliot. We first went to St. Paul’s Cathedral, it was beautiful on the outside, but when we went inside, we would have to pay 12,50 to see everything and we weren’t allowed to take pictures or anything. wtf -_- so we went to Starbucks instead, hahaha XD logical right? So after a while, we talked about getting tickets to The Phantom of the Opera, got up and got them. Row D, chair 29 to 31 of the stalls. Pretty good seats. We then talked about whether we could go see the Big Ben or not and since we still had enough time we did. We took probably way to many pictures of the Big Ben and house of Parliament. The London Eye as lit up with red lights when it got darker and this provided us with a lot of fun and crazy pictures.

Being half frozen and tired, we deside to go in search of a KFC, because Lisanne wanted to eat it. But we only had an hour before the Phantom started, so instead we went to Subway *who’d have guessed? * And when dinner there was done we went to the theater. We bought some merchandise and headed to our seats. We noticed there was a large amount of young teenage Spanish people, probably meaning that there was a school there, taking pictures of each and everything. But I didn’t want it to spoil the fun, because this was the first time I had ever seen Phantom… I’ve waited 14 years to see this show, damn it!! I was gonna enjoy it. The show was amazing! I sang along to almost everything, theehee, but I didn’t care. I loved every minute of the show! After the show we went to stage door, but we were the only ones O_O which is totally weird. We saw the girl that played Christine Daaye come out together with the woman that played Carlotta.  They talked and we waited, seeing many of the cast walk away without looking around even. At one point Katie (who played Christine) turned to us and asked us if we were waiting for them and we were like “yes?”  and she was ” oooh you should have interupted us!”  and we were just like “well… we thought we’d just wait until you were done” So she was signing our brochures and we talked about how I waited half my life to see this show, bahaha and she was like ” this is your first time?”  erm… yes? *chuckles* So of course we boasted being from the Netherlands and being here for the week, going back tomorrow. She asked us which shows we had seen this week, wich was Wicked and Avenue Q. She loved Wicked as well and told us about how Jacqueline Tate was in Phantom before but was in Avenue Q since this week, which we had discovered too because we recognized her from the Phantom brochure, teehee. So we had our pictures taken with katie and Melanie (carlotta) and then we walked away, desiding on the spot we were gonna go to the Stage Door of Avenue Q, just to see Paul and Jacquline, hahahaha. So we walked for like 10 minutes or something, singing Phantom and discussing what we would discuss with Paul (trust me… people must have thought us high on drugs, seeing us running across the roads because the lights were turning red as soon as we stepped out on the road. But there was no one left at the Stage door of Avenue Q, so we went to see the Priscilla; Queen of the Dessert theater to take  pictures of the giant shoe they have above the door. Then we still wanted to have some KFC, so we tried to find one, but couldn’t. So it was Mickey D as usuall Then the bus home, where we repacked our bags for tomorrow (I hope they won’t weigh them, I might not pass the weighing test, haha XD

And now we are back home and writing like always. But since I have to get up early in the morning, I’m off to bed now. So I wish you all a good night and talk to you soon again!

Love,
Mo