Mind the Gap!

I'm in London.... Finally!

So I've been here for two days now and I still can't wrap my head around it! But last night it became so real I literally almost cried... I met Big Ben. Not to mention had my first pub experience with Fish and Chips and cider to go along with it! 

But let's not get ahead of ourselves now! Yesterday morning when I woke up after three hours of sleep :o I walked with Monica to work, just so she could show me around the area a little better. We stopped by a morning time cafe to grab a pastry and some coffee (which was pretty amazing). 

Further down our path she showed me how to enter the tube....  I have a love/hate relationship with the tube. We carried on our way towards Monica's office where we dropped her off and she sent me on my way! I was now alone in London. To do anything I pleased, and what do you suppose I did with this time? I got lost! I took a wrong turn somewhere on my way back to the flat and ended up getting turned around! Luckly the nice french boy working at Starbucks was able to point me back in the right direction!

When Monica arrived home from work we swiftly left the flat and scurried down to the tube to make our way over to The Albert Pub! And it was absolutely gorgeous! Not normally what you would think when talking about a pub, but the whole front of it was lined with flowers and the inside was furnished with dark wood and had gold around the ceilings! The cider was delicious and the food was even better! Needless to say I didn't think the night could get any better until we took a little stroll down the street and what would come around the corner but non other then Big Ben, The London Eye, and Westminster Abbey! The perfect sight to a tourist! My eyes almost got watery thinking that I was actually there and seeing it with my own two eyes! I can't believe how extremely blessed I am to be able to come over here and experience this in my life!

Well that's all for now loves! I've got a bunch more Chasing London to do!!! 

Later Oklahoma!

Today I have truly seen how blessed I am with the people I surround myself with! 

With so much to get done by the time my intensely early flight leaves in the morning, I still had the best day with the people I love the most! I had the pleasure of spending the whole day with my perfect nephews and amazing sister. Saying goodbye is probably one of the hardest things to do and they made it effortless with all the love they show me. I know being gone for only two weeks seems like nothing to most people but being away from my family for more then 2 days gives me a heartbreak. 

Lots of last minute preparations went into today as well, and I couldn't have done any of them with out my best friend Monica with whom I will forever be thankful for! I'm extremely excited to finally be in London with her and begin a fun filled two weeks with her! 

Ending my day with dinner of pizza and the rest of the family was the icing on the perfectly baked cupcake for me! It's so nice to know I'll be missed (although I'm almost positive they are just trying to rush me out the door!). 

With that being said this girl is checking in early tonight because my flight leaves at 6AM.... Nope not kidding. Wish I was. 

Tomorrow marks the first day of my adventure and Chasing London. 

Brittany xxx

Packing = :(

Not sure how people assume I should know what I wanna wear for two weeks, I'm not even 100% sure I know what I wanna wear in an hour! Packing is the worst part about taking vacations, I mean more than likely I'm only going to wear 20% of what I pack and the other 80% I'm just gonna keep moving around my suitcase to get to what I really want. 

This should not stress me out this much!

I'm just gonna go naked.

Anyways, with so much left to do and only having 6 days left to do it I'm going to make a list of things I still have to do on here to make sure I'm not forgetting anything! ;) 

THE LIST

• Situate and buy more music for listening purposes
• Print out tickets for my day trips
• Buy books for Nook
• Clean out purse and switch to new one! :)
• Put passport by my bag (don't really want to forget that)
• Buy electric converter
• Get nails done
• Oh yeah.... PACK! 

See not that much left to do... HA

So many things to do when all I really wanna do is Chase London.

         Brittany xxx

P.S. I found this in my purse while trying to clean it out! Thought it was appropriate!