that one time i went to london

Why am I not cold and damp? Is... is this sun?

I went to London the first weekend of March to visit Danielle. We planned to go to the cat cafe later that day, but we had a whole day to kill, so Victoria Park and Chinatown it was.


After brunch at this super delicious lakeside cafe, we wanted to walk off our food babies around the park. We should have just followed our hearts on the second breakfast idea, but our more rational, money-saving minds said otherwise. So around the park we went. Yes, we are 21-year-old adults playing on a bunch of these playground things, but really, why wouldn't you play on these things? Do you see these things? They are so much cooler than the ones at home. Probably because no one will sue because their little joy-suckers children are incapable of navigating a playground without getting nailed in the head. Naps and playgrounds are wasted on kids. The spinny selfie bit in the video? It was a wind up carousel. As in, no one had to push you because you wound it up, hopped on, and went on a pleasant spin. So cool. Danielle has pictures of me failing at the rope jungle gym. At one point, a mom nearby commented that I had the wrong shoes on, but I didn't care. She wasn't my mom, and there's no way she could have told mine. Right?

Being in the UK, my life has been pretty devoid of Asian cuisine, and I have the cravings. It's not like I eat a whole ton of Asian food when I'm at school. It's like I know I can't have it easily, so I want it more. This hunger for the food of my people led us to Chinatown where we found the holy grail of instant noodles in a supermarket for really cheap. We got pretty excited and bought two 5-packs each. I also scooped a mini bottle of Sriracha sauce because 7 weeks without Sriracha is just wrong. Outside the grocery store, we basically got ambushed by this crafty little Chinese woman beckoning us to go into her dim sum shop. We had no choice. We had to get dim sum at that point, which meant we had yet another food coma to walk off. Down through Trafalgar, the Thames, and Tate Modern we went. Then on to the best part yet: cats in a cafe.




Anyway, I'll do the cat cafe in another video. My retinas are burning from staring at this screen.