Day 12

Lesson 36: Buckingham Palace isn't that impressive

No offense to the Queen or any of the other royal family members (I know you're reading this Harry...) but if I were as royal as any of you, I'd want a much cooler palace than Buckingham. When we first walked up to it I wasn't even sure if it was anything of importance until I saw a sign about the changing of the guards, at which point I wondered if they did the changing of the guards at places other than the palace. Just sayin...there are some houses in Sands Point that shit on Buckingham Palace.

Lesson 37: Leicester Square looks so much different in the daytime

After having spent the first week and a half going out just about every night because I didn't have any classes or anything else to really do, I thought that I was basically a local and knew Leicester Square like the back of my hand. False. During our touristy day out in the city we somehow managed to meander our way from Trafalgar Square into Leicester Square, but I didn't even realize where we were. Initially I was impressed that they had more than one Haagen Dazs restaurants in London that happened to both be across from a TKTS stand. Given we came from a completely different direction than we had ever entered Leicester Square from, and even though I never actually said any of this out loud, I still felt dumber just for the mere fact that the thought had entered my mind.

Lesson 38: Invest in oven mitts