Piccadilly

I decided for this post I'll just describe out weekend in pictures, rather than lots of words.  You may pick up on two themes here: Harry Potter and American food.  I've been here just long enough to start missing some of my favorites.  The top of my list includes good salad dressings (cilantro ranch!), chips and homemade garden salsa, and chocolate chip cookies (I tried making chocolate chip cookies but the sugar here is really grainy which gave them a weird taste, and chocolate chips are hard to come by).

Friday night we ate at Pizza Hut, and walked around Piccadilly Circus and the West End.  No, we didn't actually go see Les Mis, but this was too awesome looking to pass up the photo op.

For my Harry Potter people.

Am I the only person who sees something wrong with feeding a squirrel out of your hand and petting it???  

We went on a Harry Potter walking tour on Saturday morning.  It was fun, but not as fun as I'd hoped.  There's only so many real things they can show you from a fictional story.  The tour mostly included things such as, "In Harry Potter 5, they fly under this bridge!".  Plus, it was based on the movies which I don't love nearly as much.

Saturday we also visited St. Paul's Cathedral (Princess Diana and Prince Charles were married here).

More St. Paul's.  It was AMAZING on the inside, but of course, no pictures allowed.

No, we didn't eat here, we just took awesome  pictures with it.  We went to Chipotle instead (it tastes nothing like Cafe Rio, just for the record).

We visited Platform 9 3/4 on September 1st, we had church at 10 AM so we missed the 11:00 party, but I can't complain.

Bad news, this is what Platforms 9 and 10 ACTUALLY look like.  There's not even a wall in between them :(

Last night we went out for "legit American burgers" with Spencer's co-workers.  They were really good, but they just don't make burgers here like we do in America.  When I get back to Utah, one of the first things I'll eat is a Bacon Bleu Cheese Burger with the little crispy onions....yum!