Days 4 and 5 :) London Eye, Madame Tussauds :)

First things first- my apologies for not updating earlier... was very very tired... and lazy... :P

So, well.. yesterday we went to London eye... the giant wheel that I mentioned was amazing! :) we went there around 11.30 I think... and we started feeling hungry... :D Venkat said he'd join us for lunch.. so what we did was stand in the queue, got tickets for the London Eye, and we were told that we were getting a discount then if we bought Madame Tussauds wax museum ticks too... so obviously we bought.. it had one month validity... :) we bought some yummy delicious veg cookies... one was dark chocolate(imagine how heavenly it had to be if I loved it! :P) and one was coconut cookie I think.. and then there was one of cashew and walnuts... :) well, this was our idea of "snacks" :D so, after our light snack of 5 cookies among 4 of us, we finally got into the London eye.. its almost 30-35 mins ka one full circle... :)

Yeah, the giant wheel was inaugurated in 2000, as the millennium landmark in london, upon Prince Charles' suggestion! It is being run and operated by British Airways and there has not been one casuality in 8 years.. since it was launched!! :) me totally amazed! oh another thing I noticed in the underground railway system- notice on almost all trains "please stay away from boarding line. Number of casualities last year: 32"!! Just 32.. but see how much they care!! And back home, we have millions of accidents everyday! Oh another thing I just remembered: pedestraints are ALWAYS given priority... normal crossing roads we have to be on our guard.. but if you have a zebra crossing anywhere around, you can close your eyes and keep walking... the vehicles HAVE to stop for u to pass... even if they are travelling at 90 mph!! :) this includes huge buses and trams...! It is true... I tried yesterday !! :D

I just remembered sumthing else...! Aditi...! woah! I know i'm going really haphazard... wait... i'll try to put it in order from now on.. :P

Well, we were on the London eye... in our “capsule” or whatever they call it, we were almost 15 ppl.. :) it was spacious and all.. so no issues.. :) and kichu and I started clicking away to glory- like there was no tomorrow! :P and the poses we took! :P hehe... everybody was smiling at us politely... if it were u, am sure you'd have laughed at our clown-like acts! :P hehe... by the time I thought we'd done enough fooling around, I saw that we were at the top most point from where one can see London... it's "panoramic view" :D i told kichu "we self obsessed people dint realise how far we've come... see, lets live the moment and not lose it all in taking pics!" :) we stood in awe for a few mins as the whole scene sank in.. we could see the Big Ben in all its brilliance, the Thames river (pronounced "Te-m-s" :P), the Buckingham palace, the Parliament, the train lines, the straight roads... it was magnificent... :) we began our descent and we started clicking away to glory again! :) it's really a sight to behold... :)

oh fish!! just rememebred... Prabhakaran's dead... and there has been a HUGE massive sri lankan ppl's protest just outside the parliament in Westminster... scary to see such crowd... police vans were all over the place, the mob was angry and agitated... but there was no actual outbreak of violence... slogans about saving srilankan tamils were in the air... some tube stations were affected and buses were also diverted due to the agitation... no casualities so far... thankfully!

Hmm Aditi now.. :) Aditi is a fren from pune.. and like i said, she introduced me to Nicholas sparks.. :) and well, she works for a research company here... HR role... and she did her masters from LSE(London School of Economics...!!) way out of my league! :P hmmm so what? I can at least say I have big shot frens! :) yeah, so i called her and she came down to St Johns wood and we met up and had coffee at Starbucks... her treat! :) and we had a nice time cathcing up on old times and hostel gossip and who's gotten married and is settled where kinda news.. :) kichu was there too... then I brought her home.. introduced her to Venkat and my parents … we basically had a nice time :)

Later at night, harish taught kichu and me a new card game.. called 5-3-2 :D we loved it and played till 12 or something... by them everybody else had gone to sleep! :) it's a 3 player game.. :) will teach you when I meet u :) :P

Then comes... today! :) got up late, very late...

Around 11.30 we all finally got ready, and went out.. .for lunch! :) our very own woodlands again! :) I only had nimbu pani as my 4 slices of bread for breakfast was still heavy... :P so after a good lunch, we headed towards Madame Tussauds... I am getting very good with the tube stations... I know what line goes to what stations... :) so I am automatically the group leader.. when Venkat is not there... :P

So, we reached Madam Tussauds successfully... and it was great, to say the least... tom cruise, brangelina, biran lara, sachin tendulkar, gandhi, nelson mandela, obama, julia roberts, daniel radcliffe... :P amazing time we had... kichu and I posed as if we were giving President Bush a penny... he had his hand outstretched.. as if begging... :P and obama had the president's table in front of him but was only standing next to his chair... so all of us sat on the chair as if he's our secretary and took pics.. :) I took pics as if I'm strangling aishwarya rai.. :P I also tamed albert einstien's hair... :P posed with the queen... I shot saddam hussien with a gun, jim carrey danced with me, i kissed spider man, leonardo hugged me... :) amazing!!! :) (Check orkut album, u’ll know it all! :P :D)

So after that we took a train to Charring street and had a cheese burger, then went out to Trafalgar square, took another million pics! :) roamed around for sometime, took a train to some place called baker street, took another train to St Johns Wood... bought some groceries form a near by store, walked home.. washed and changed... and sat down on a chair with my lappie... am still in the same position! :)

I hope u liked this post... :) dont be jealous... :) will share all my pics with the celebs generously... :P :D :) hehehe

Chal until next post, take care and have fun. Thanks for dropping by :)