And that's all she wrote

The next day, Prash and I hung out, going to Covent Garden to buy some Campers (yay for Campers!) and checking out the markets there. Poor Prash, I made him wait while I tried on all my beautiful Camper shoes... It's not good to have an obsession! Anyway, we looked in lots of shops, ate a "full english" for lunch (that's Full English Brekkie - sausage, eggs, bacan, baked beans (!) and toast... it was great!) We then went to Seven Dials so I could do a bit of invetigative research... only to discover I'd already been there! Little did I realise, my second day in London I went to Seven Dials as that's where the musical Chicago was playing... silly Cassie!

After the Seven Dials fiasco, we went to Camden Markets, where we looked at dodgy markets until Prash's friend Lance turned up and then we actually went to the cool Camden Markets! I bought a lovely purse and Lance showed us the raver store, where they sell all that weird-arse raver stuff that those crazy kids wear to, well, raves and you never really think that they must have bought it somewhere and, well, that's where they buy it! They had fluro clothes, and stuff that looked like the Jetsons clothes and tshirts that have LCD screens... it was all very whacked out and cool. Anyway, I left those guys at about 3pmish and went back to my hotel room where I crashed it for a bit. Then it was on to Wicked!

I met Bree and a friend of hers out the front of the theatre and we went in for Wicked fun times. For those not in the know, Wicked is the Wizard of Oz from the witch's point of view. It was very good, and completely different from the book on which it is based! I bought the book in Manchester, cos I knew I was going to go see the show, and, um, didn't really think it was all that and a packet of chips. But the musical was awesome, and I love how they developed a friendship between Glinda and the wicked witch. Awesome! After Wicked, I said goodbye to Bree and crashed it big time!

The next day was my very last day in England! *sob* I got up at the crack of dawn and hoofed it to Vanessa's house to collect all my stuff for the big pack, which had to occur before check out! It was absolutely freezing as for my last day, the weather had decided to gift me with a truly awesome London day - it was 8 degrees and no cloud. Oh well, at least it wasn't raining! I made it back to my hotel with all my stuff and proceeded to pack and repack and repack again. Once everything was sorted, I left my bags there and went to Hyde Park, where I just couldn't be bothered actually going into the park. So I wandered about, looking in a few shops, before going to London Bridge to meet Vanessa for our big farewell! I got there a little early, but the Borough Markets were up and running so I checked out all the yummy food. Mmm!

Vanessa and I then met up and we went to the cute teacup place for high tea! It was awesome. And then it was sad times as we said goodbye to each other... but we did promise to email! Ah, you gotta love technology. Anyway, was walking down the street when I remembered I still had Vanessa's keys... the whole reason we were meeting for lunch! So our second goodbye occured and then it really was all over red rover ;p

I wandered about a bit more and then decided I'd just go early to Heathrow. I was going to leave about 5.30pm for my 10pm flight, but I figured that was peak hour traffic on the tube (and on a Friday) and I just couldn't be bothered fighting the hoardes. So I went back to the hotel, gathered my things and caught the tube. Yeah, there were still heaps of people even at 4.30pm. However, I caught the Picadilly line and everything was trundling along nicely... until they decided to terminate the line four stops before Heathrow. Damnit! By this time, it was almost 6pm, so I was really glad I had chosen to go early! Anyway, it was all change and luckily there was another tube to Heathrow waiting for us. I got to Heathrow about 6.30pm and made my way to the check-in desk. Yeah, Heathrow is not pretty. It was actually a bit gross and haphazard, at least that was my first impression. After all the security checks, I made my way into the passenger lounge, which was a bit more impressive. However, it was still a bit weird, as they didn't have a definitive barrier between the security checkpoint and the lounge... you could have quite easily mistakenly wandered past the security guards. Oh, and they make you take your shoes off to be xrayed after you've gone through the x-ray thingy... it was interesting!

Anyway, bummed around the airport, had some dinner (boots sandwich... awesome!) and, of course, my flight was late. Yay! It was interesting, tho, cos the airport had shut down... I think my flight was the last one! After going through another checkpoint to get into the pre-flight waiting lounge (where the security guard looked at my passport, looked at me, looked at my passport, looked at me, and then waved me through) I waited for another 20 minutes and then it was boarding the plane and winging my way back home!

And that's it, kids! The big trip all over... it was so completely awesome. I'm so glad I went and I definately want to go back as soon as I can!