Day 6: 9/19/12 - Chizzilin in London with the fan

The quote of the day is "THIS is Victoria Station" from the very aggressive Underground announcer.

We had a good first day in London. Mom and poops arrived pretty tired but especially mom because she couldn't sleep at all on the flight over from the states. Poor lady!

Anyways we all arrived at the hotel, dropped our stuff off, freshened up and headed out. We first had to pick up tickets for our buckingham palace tour tomorrow and so we headed over there but realized we were hungry on the way so stopped to eat. At Burger King. Embarrassing I know. Then we proceeded to get lost a million times trying to find the Buckingham Palace Ticket Office (all my fault mind you). We finally picked up our tickets and then headed to the bus tour we had lined up. And I got us lost again. I normally am super good at directions but I was wayyyy off my game today.

Then we got on the bus tour and it was ... ok. It was freezing cold and we had two audio guides going on and it was just too much for a travel day. So we got off mid-way through and headed back to the hotel. Before we did though I snapped the included picture of poops.

Back at the hotel we chilled for a bit and decided mom needed to rest up for our day tomorrow so she took a nap while poops and I headed out. We decided to do what we do best - go see a show. We went to the TKTS booth in Leicester Square and it was totally empty. Why isn't the booth in Times Square ever like that?? We wanted to see Les Mis but it was sold out. So we got tickets for Billy Elliot, which we were only feeling lukewarm about. Boy were we wrong! It was one of the most amazing shows I have ever seen. The lead was this 12 year old boy who just was phenomenal at everything - ballet, tap, hip hop, gymnastics, singing AND acting. This show may be my new obsession (replacing Book of Mormon now that Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad are gone) for the next few months.

Then we headed back to the hotel area where we wanted to find a pub with some food but everything was closed except McDonald's. Literally everything. Talk about and embarrassing food day.

Anyways now we are ready to hit the hat and are looking forward to another great day tomorrow. Yippee!