Fish and Chips and Mushy Peas

We went to the V&A today which was AMAZING. The V&A, or Victoria and Albert Museum, is "the world's greatest museum of art and design." I saw a lot of furniture that I recognized from my history class, but unfortunately my camera died about 30 minutes after we got there. Benae let me use her camera to get a couple more pictures, but there's so much we still wanted to see that we'll probably go back. I just hope we don't run into the same worker we met today.... he was nice but he would not stop talking! We finally got away after 45 minutes because he had to go on break.

Next we went to the Tate Modern- a museum for modern art. We only spent about 30 minutes there... we tried. We really tried. But sometimes modern art is a little too abstract for me. I also don't understand the kindergarten drawing style.

Next, Susie took Benae, Jesse, Leslie and I to the best cupcake shop in London: the Hummingbird Bakery. A-mazing.You can buy their recipe book and I'm determined to go back and get it.

Since my suitcase has now been gone for 3 days, we went to an H&M clothing store so I could get a couple things. They have the cutest clothes! I just might get all of my back-to-school shopping there before I leave.

By then we were all starving, so for dinner we went to this great little place called Billy's. I tried fish and chips  for the first time and I loved it! The guy working there was really funny, too. While we were standing in front of the restaurant, he came out and said "Are you deciding whether to come in or not? Because you should come in." Later he took a picture for us and said, "show your American smiles!"

At about 8 all the shops were closing (the stores in London close really early) so we headed home. We had saved our cupcakes from the cupcake shop so we sat on the steps outside our apartment and ate them. Divine. We talked and laughed as loud as we could as to annoy our posh neighbors as much as possible ;)

Once it got dark we went back in, and guess what I found at the reception desk. My suitcase!! It was found and delivered this afternoon. I have clothes! and makeup! and my sketchbook! and my Triscuits- which was a pleasant surprise because I thought they'd be confiscated when they went through customs.

And now I'm dressed in my very own pajamas and I'm headed for bed :)