Oh My.....

Eventful day, today was. We met at the Drama department at 9 AM, which had been switched the day before from 930AM, to take a mini bus to London to visit the British Library, which is very impressive by the way. The mini bus was late so we didn't end up leaving until just before 930AM (approx. 925AM). We then almost hit a wall getting out of the Drama department car park. We nearly made it to London in a record 2 hours and 30, mind you we had all taken bets to see how long it would take us to get there, due to the fact that our favorite driver was once again at the helm (Greg, bless him).

Once we reached London the real excitement began. We pulled into the first car pack and the attendant told Greg that we would not fit, so we would have to go else where. The lovely attendant guided us backwards out of the precarious position that we had pulled into and stopped traffic for us to turn around. What a doll. We tried to go into the car park next door, which was for mini buses and buses, but were informed that these spaces were only for certain 'special vehicles' so we weren't allowed to park there either. This would be a good time to add that the stipulations of the bet were: the total time it would take from when we actually started rolling to when we had finally parked the mini bus. We then drove round London, almost hit a car pulling out into traffic, as well as a pedestrian, attempted to pull into a car park that we were obviously too big for, cracked the roof of the mini bus, dented the car park shutter, got yelled at by the attendant there, Phil got threatened by him, and then finally parked on the street.

The winner of the bet was Pods at 3hours 40 mins. I wasn't that far off with 4 hours even.

We then went into the the British Library, by this time late for our private tour. Went up stairs with our guide, were denied access due to some miss communication (no one had told security that we were coming, apparently). We were eventually let in, were about half way through our 2 hour tour when the fire alarm, of course, went off. So we had to evacuate the building and spend the better part of an hour outside (thankfully it was sunny, though not terribly warm).

Once back inside we had a somewhat hastened version of what was to be our original tour and then finished the evening by going to O'Neills pub across the road, where Greg bought us a drink, bless.

Just to add, as a side note, we did make it back to Bristol in one piece. Angela drove us home, as Greg apparently, unbeknownst to us, lives in London! and went home. We got back at 945PM. The End.....

(Greg you are fabulous! Thanks for driving us around!)

So what did you all do today? hahaha