"You Are Ruining the Pleasures of Other Guests"

Those were the exact words from our waitress on our first day, which pretty much sums up London. Take the first coffee shop for example: Kristen, our friend Josh and I were in a café having a chat. It was early - we had not been drinking - and apparently we were already too loud. We received lots of stares from the locals.

This same day (after a few cocktails) we end up at a bar near our apartment that was recommended by a couple we met on the street - who wound up coming in with us for a drink. We were having a grand time and apparently got a bit loud. Now, not only were we American loud, but Kristen and I picked up British accents as soon as we stepped off the plane. You can imagine how that turned out… Anyway, apparently our server came over and asked us to leave because, as the title of this blog states, we were “ruining the pleasures of the other guests.” Oooopsie.

Then there was the second night. It was the first of a few nights at O’Neill’s - our favorite late night bar. After closing, we ended up at Hung’s - a fantastic Chinese restaurant that is open super late, conveniently located next door to O’Neill’s. I’m sure there are different versions of the story, but this is mine: Right after getting seated I was playing with my chopsticks and one of them snapped and flew across the room and into a plate of some customer’s food. The guy jumped up and started yelling saying that we were ruining everyone’s meal. So I get up and go over and apologize to these Londoners, but apparently I do so in my British accent which didn’t go over so well. This was all before we even ordered our food -haha. Thankfully we were allowed to stay, even though I was grounded from talking. But that was fine because the food was real gooood, well what I ate of it anyway.

Although we did do quite a bit of partying in London, we did go see the sights as well.  We did lots o’ walking, lots o’ Tube riding, lots of eating, and among other things saw Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, London Eye, London Bridge, Tower of London, the houses where Oscar Wilde & Mark Twain lived, Harrods, Trafalgar Square, & Tate Modern. We ate a lot of Fish & Chips, tried a few (not good) English beers, and went to the 49ers/Broncos game on Halloween which was a blast.  We had so much fun and this was such a great way to start off our trip!