More Visitors!!

All semester, I had been looking forward to a visit from my family. Both my Mom and Aunt Kara had a planned visit for the last weekend in March and for all the waiting I did, their visit flew by in what felt like no time!

While I relied on the Easy Bus to meet my friends at Stansted and Gatwick, I breathed a sigh of relief that I could just hop on the tube to meet my fam at Heathrow. I guess I should have left earlier because there were delays on the Piccadilly line, which caused my mother to panic and send a page over the intercom throughout the entire airport--good start right?

We had so much fun for the four days they were here. We hit all the same spots as when Marie, Kenny, and Jen were in London and added a few extras along the way. One of my favorites was going to see Abbey Road and reenacting The Beatles' famous album cover (the pictures turned out to be pretty entertaining, if I do say so myself).

With the age gaps between the three of us (we're each 13 years apart), the choice of what to do at night was...interesting. We ended up taking a taxi to Leicester Square after dinner to find a place suitable for all of us. This was harder than it sounds, but the bouncers ouside one place insisted inside was a decent mix of people, so we settled (and mostly did a lot of convincing of my mom). It actually ended up to be a lot of fun!

The last night of their visit, we went to Aladin, an Indian restaurant on Brick Lane. The atmosphere was very cool, and the food was really good too! In celebration of Mom's birthday (which is actually today :]), we asked the waiter if they had a typical birthday dessert. When the lights in the restaurant turned off, we expected a cake, but they instead brought out this crazy contraption with candles that opened and closed and sang Happy Birthday--different but definitely cool, and my mom even got to take it home with her!

The visit was much needed, and I never stopped laughing the whole time they were here. It made me miss the rest of my family. I don't want to wish away the rest of my time in Europe, but it's a good thing home isn't too far away.