the many adventures of jessica and vai in london

So exchange is coming to an end :( Everyone's already left, and on the 16th, all that was left in the halls was Jessica, me, and a HUGE list of all the sightseeing we wanted to do but hadn't gotten around to yet. So yesterday and today were basically rush-around-like-whoa exhausting but super-fun days where much fun was had. :) Here are the pictures from Jess' camera. She's going back tomorrow - byeeee! You will be verily missed!! :)



The penguin at LSE.


WE FINALLY CLIMBED THE LIONS AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE, YO. It was SO cool. She helped me up and then this nice dude helped her up. It's scary because its a long, hard fall to the ground, but once you're up there its SO DAMN COOL WOOHOO. One of the highlights of the entire trip!!




Jess on top of the lion. :D


Haha. In front of the big ben. The nice old man who helped us take this photo didn't really get the concept of touristy photos, apparently.


Platform 9 and 3/4 at kings' cross!! Jessica lent me her USC Hogwarts-lookalike scarf for the day! Hee! Nerd-dom to the max.


Seriously, nerdy much?


The natural history museum is SO DAMN COOL WHEE.


Harrods! I wasn't particularly impressed, but I totally fell in love with this little pink washing machine!! Hee! Its so cute and vintagey! And it matches my pink coat! Baby, never mind the fact that you cost 500 pounds. You and I were meant to beee!! Hee!


And this! SO COOL! Pink scrabble! My favourite board game in the entire world in a special all-pink edition? I wanted to buy it SO badly!! The letters are pink, the letter-racks are pink, the entire game board is different shades of pink, and bag in which the letters are pink, EVERYTHING IS PINK, PEOPLE. I will lust after this scrabble till the end of my days. :( It was a special breast-cancer awareness edition, in case you were wondering.


Our last bus ride home together on the 176! This photo was taken just after the bus had passed waterloo bridge, which linda, rumana, jess and I all share a deep, heartfelt love for. Aw!


It was really, REALLY foggy when we made our last Sainsbury's run to get chocolate digestives (burp) and water!! :) Kinda eerie, but makes for a great photo! :D

Anyway, that's all. I'm going to spain in a few days, and will be home in a little over two weeks. See ya'll! :)

From Wembley

Wembley is the "guju" area of london - guju food, signs in gujurati, and a nice but old man coming up to us, saying "Jaishree krishna" and then muttering random things at us that nobody understood. We went there two weekends ago, and ate freakishly large amounts of food at - you'd never guess where - SHIV SAGAR! Yes, they have Shiv Saagar in London! Nowhere near as good as the Bombay one of course, but still a fantastic treat after the potatoes and boiled veggies that constitute our hall gruel food.

And no, we sadly didn't get to go see the Wembley stadium, even though we did see it from the Tube. :(

I'm still fascinated with the LC-A effect in PS, as you can see. :)