London is a pretty cool city. I don't want to marry it or anything like that. But I would like hang out with it as friends now and then.The city of London was romanticized via countless Disney movies and Austin Powers movies that I watched countless times so I had pretty high expectations that were not met per se, but it was still fun, and there is a lot of history there. We both enjoy history, and we like to find the oldest buildings possible. If we see a building that was built in like, 1901, we're like "LAME!" But yeah so it was cool and stuff, but I am glad we live in the quiet beautiful countryside.
Anyway, before I let the pictures do all the work of telling you about our trip. I just wanted to talk about body odor. On Saturday, literally every time were were around a crowd of people, there was a B.O. smell. There wasn't any particular person that was always around us. But it was always THERE. I got so frustrated with it that at one point during our visit to Madame Tussauds wax museum I very obviously sniffed my own armpit (no pretending to stretch while turning your head into your armpit) just to make sure that it wasn't me and loudly declared "IT IS NOT ME!" and then proceeded to sniff Taylor's armpits because he was just as much a suspect as I. But we were both in the clear as we had deodorized ourselves before leaving the hotel in the morning. It then became clear to me that it was just a LOT of people had HORRIBLE B.O., and everyone was always lifting their arms for whatever reason, and releasing their personal stench. I started to wonder so many things, WHY? Is there no deodorant available? Was there a surge of smelly french or german tourists? Was I being punished for something? What there some kind of strike going on between the deodorant companies and the people of London? I went into a local "Boots" pharmacy and beauty store to see, and there was deodorant available at a reasonable price. Why there were so many smelly people? I may never know. But it got worse. The worst, most traumatic event during our trip was when we were on the tube (subway train for those of you who are not as culturally advanced) and it was really crowded so I was holding onto Taylor when a man stepped next to us and grabbed the bar and his OPEN SMELLY ARMPIT WAS RIGHT IN MY FACE!! and I had to bury my face in Taylor's chest and try to suffocate myself to get away from the perpetual B.O.. After we got off I told him about it and he of course, was not in the line of stench since he is tall and he thought I was just trying to be cute. Yeah right.
Anyway, we took a 2 hour open top bus tour around the city. But our camera died so they are from our phones, but they still turned out okay. So here are some pictures from that.
Didcot Railway Station - departure
Paddington Station - arrival
fat me and phat John Wayne.
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2 comments:
:D I will tell you about BO!!!! Russian's think it's unhealthy to take too many showers....they only shower about once a week! Ugh!!! Maybe that's the same reason there is BO is London! It's an epidemic! (Except America hasn't not been hit as badly) When you get in the "tube" just make sure you find a good spot by the windows! :D
Oh, man -- I love that scene in "European Vacation." :) I also LOVE Madame Tussaud's! I've only ever been to the one in NYC, though. I wonder if it has a lot of the same people . . . Hm.
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