A great day :)

January 31, 2009

A great day :)

Today me and my sister went up to London together to celebrate her birthday. It was really nice spending time together, just the two of us, and it made me realise how long it's been since we did that, and how much i've missed the chats we used to have. So we've promised to try to do more of both in future!

We caught a 9am train up there and went straight to the half-price ticket booth at Leicester Square and got tickets to see 'The Sound of Music' in the evening. i love that booth so much, it has seats for loads of top shows all half-price. In the past we have even been in the front row for 'Fame' and 'Stomp', next to people who paid full whack for their tickets months and months ago! It makes me giggle a little bit when i think about that.

Anyway.... next we hit the shops and we did loadsssssssss of shopping - we went to Tottenham Court Road for their posh homeware stores and for Paperchase, then we started at one end of Oxford Street and worked our way allllll the way down to the other end, with a quick detour down Regents Street in the middle, a stop off for lunch, and finishing up in the huge new Primark store which was packed with people and absolutely manic but we got loads of bargains so we came away happy. Then we went to Covent Garden to chill out for a bit and had some lovely dinner before making our way to the theatre for the show.

The show was reallllllly good and we both enjoyed it, and i bought a souvenir programme and a T-shirt :) We took our own sweeties and snacks in because the ones they sell in there cost a fortune (and so do the souvenirs, but i figure it's worth getting a couple). And then we caught the train home and i got in about midnight! So a longgggg full day but a very enjoyable one. And i get to cross something else off my 101 list: #31. go to another musical in London :) (i was hoping to be able to cross off the one about getting my portrait done by a street artist, but we didn't see any - maybe next time?)