http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/JoshinYasha/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from JoshinYasha en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:45:24 +0000 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:45:24 +0000 So after lying in bed until about 1230pm today I got up and went to Tesco to buy the last supply of food for the rest of this week. I got me a nice thing of stirfry to go with the rice I still had and also managed to fix some chicken. I watched some episodes of the Tudors and then whenever Danielle got home we did a spur of the moment buy of Wicked tickets and went to see it at the Apollo Q http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-421575.html Today was my last day at work so Greg had me spend it like any other leaflet flyering and updating the systems directory. On the plus side Greg did bring me a jellyfilled doughnut as a goodbye gift. I was happy I at least got the first 52 pages done of the directory update. At least it meant that I got a good chunk of the work done before the next person has to tackle it.After work was just http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Enfield-Town/blog-421573.html Thankfully I had set an alarm to wake up early enough to meet Tess at the train station. From there she and I road the underground down to Earl's Court for the London Film and Comicon. If there were any question about how to get there the only thing I had to do was follow the geeks and nerds. That and the HOARD of Twilight fans. Those girls are creepy as hell btw. More on that later... Aft http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Earls-Court/blog-421570.html This morning was my evaluation so I went back to Westminster to meet with Hillar Dr. Hagen and James. The interview went exceptionally well especially when James told Hillar and Dr. Hagen I was his favourite American intern. I think that made both of them very happy. After that I spent the rest of the day writing letters in the office.Tonight all the people who were working with politician http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Covent-Garden/blog-421569.html I was back up in Enfield North today and back with Greg again since he returned from his two week holiday. That meant I got to go about the morning doing more leaflet deliveries and then spent the rest of the day finishing my big project and also starting a 239 page update of names in the server directory. Yeah I only made it through the first 15 pages before I had to leave for the day.Fin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-421568.html Despite deciding we would wake up at 9am and go swimming in the pool our plans shifted so that we didn't wake up until 10am and relaxed leisurely until we had to check out at 12noon. By 1pm we were back in the Barcelonita beach area and we went into the Gran Casino checked our bags and sat down to gamble. Gotta say for only betting 20euro I came out with a pretty good profit. After tha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-420373.html We woke up early enough to realize that we wanted that extra little sleep because of the jet lag and so we werenrsquot actually able to hit the beach until around 12noon. This meant that we spent a whapping 6 hours on the beach just relaxing on the fold out chairs we rented for 5 Euros and also partaking of the full body massage that we gave into courtesy of the little Asian women who walke http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-420146.html The bus was an okay ride to the airport because we had a lot of extra room so we could have one person in each set of seats. It wasnrsquot until about 11pm that we made it to the airport in LondonStansted. We got to play the fun waiting game until 5am by sleeping in shifts. I was glad that it was just myself and Danielle on this trip mainly because the other girls who had invited themselve http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Girona/blog-420139.html I got a call from Nicola last night asking if I could go to the secondary office to help out. I agreed and it turns out when I got here this morning it was our job to go around flyering again which was fine with me. I got to see a lot more of the town because of it. I definitely enjoyed being able to see what some of the upper class houses in the area looked like. In other news we all go tog http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Enfield-Town/blog-418897.html I decided to wear tennis shoes to work today mainly because my feet were killing me from being in heels all day yesterday for work and for Les Mis. So I'm dressy casual for the most part with shirt and trousers being dressy but the shoes being trainers. I think they call this look dressy nerd or something like that. I like it it means my feet aren't hurting by the end of the day. On the p http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Westminster/blog-418618.html Work was entertaining today. They didn't have much work for me at the main office so I mainly focused on opening mail until I asked them if in general they had things that they needed put into order or arranged just so I could be doing something. They thought they were boring me with trivial work but I rather enjoyed it in my OCD self. After I got off work I checked my voicemail to find th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Westminster/blog-418612.html MINITURES EVERYWHERE Theyrsquore so adorable SQUEE I wanted to get out Transformer figures and play in the miniature town. In case you didnrsquot guess we went to Beaconsfield and got to go to the model town. It was totally worth going to see because it made me feel like I was in Hot Fuzz at the end of the movie minus getting impaled. There was a little bit of everything for eac http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Buckinghamshire/Beaconsfield/blog-418609.html The British Museum was amazing especially since I was able to find the AngloSaxon section and photograph everything I possibly could. I was extremely geeking out during that time. I think the greatness of the exhibits can only be explained through the photographs I took which will be uploaded at a later time.Most of the time I spent by myself in the museum so I could go at my own pace but I http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Buckinghamshire/Aylesbury/blog-418564.html This morning I got to ride part of the Circle line Irsquoll have to go another time and just ride the Circle Line in a circle on our way to Tower Hill to go to the Tower of London. It was pretty sweet getting a tour from a Yeoman guard. Especially since he had a lovely sense of humour. We got a tour of the Traderrsquos Gate which evolved into the ldquoTraitorrsquos Gaterdquo. The http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-417275.html This was another lazy day today as Hillar had to go pick up his wife from the airport and since she is still recovering from surgery we didnrsquot do any group activities. Danielle and I watched several movies today Foolrsquos Gold Shersquos the Man Sex in the City and The Devil Wears Prada. What Irsquom allowed to be a girl sometimesAlso we got the other girls booked for Barc http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Maida-Vale/blog-416959.html As far as things go I enjoyed not spending half of my life on the underground and national rail services today. Being able to make it to work in 20 minutes was fantastic and even better was that I timed it well enough that I could stand in the queue that went around the building and still make it inside right at 11am. Then I had to sit and wait for reception to phone upstairs to my bossrsquo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Westminster/blog-416958.html Irsquove come to the conclusion that I value any day where I can sleep in. Today for instance. I got to sleep in until 12noon and then I got up did laundry and sashayed my way down to Oxford Street to trade my swimsuit top for another since Danielle and I both picked out the same top.When I came back home the housekeeper had been through and so naturally I took the extra towel from our http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Westminster/blog-416526.html I got to meet Lee today and Lee is pretty snazzy. It was like meeting the British male version of me. He told me he studied Political Science in school which led to us having a long discussion about British and American politics and he also picked my brain about the recent American election and my stance.Following that Lee asked me to help him stuff envelops to send out to residents. He eve http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Westminster/blog-416523.html I woke up around 12noon some time and Danielle asked me to go down to Oxford Street with her to go shopping and so as we were going down to the underground we decided it would be much cheaper to simply go to Barcelona for the entire weekend. This way we get beach time and won't be rushed. Sorry Rome I'll see you another trip While we were on Oxford Street we went ahead and decided to bu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Piccadilly/blog-415936.html We started the day early by getting up and hauling ourselves out onto the bus. Naturally I was the first one awake and I ran down to the pharmacy before everyone else had gotten out of bed and bought some sunscreen and lotion due to my burns from the other day. It was nice to get something on my skin since I was indeed quite red in the face haha from being burnt of course. The next two h http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/Canterbury/blog-415934.html