4 days in London

We were back in London for 4 days before flying to Dublin.
Day # 1
We went back to Camden Market. We walked along the canal to get there which is a really nice walk, trying to see into all the houseboats (they are annoyingly persistent with keeping their curtains closed) and watching all the other fishermen (one who had caught a shoe and when we walked past it was still attached to his fishing rod). We spent a couple of hours wandering around the market but eventually the cold and rain got to us. I dont think Ewen got anything but i got a tshirt with pictures of those paper-dolls on it (Riki will know what I'm talking about). That night me and Ewen cooked up massive plates of vegies for our dinner feeling a little unhealthy after our couple of weeks of take away/pub food every night.
Day # 2
Me and Ewen got the tube to Oxford street in the morning to get a suitcase, i chose a beautiful zebra print one. We are going to fill the suitcase with all the presents and souvenirs we have gotten and Ewen's uncle Andrew is going to look after it while we are in Ireland. We were running short of time (we had to meet James at 12pm in Trafalgar square) so Ewen went to meet James while i took the suitcase back to Simon & Nell's, luckily at that time the tube was nice and quiet and i didn't have any problems. I met up with James and Ewen an hour or so later in Trafalgar square and we went out for lunch at a nearby pub. I tried some mulled wine (trying to get into the British festive spirit) which was weird and lets face it kind of disgusting. After lunch we went for a walk towards Westminster stopping to have a look at the horse-guards and snap some photos in red phone boxes. We spent a while having a look outside Westminster Abbey at all of the memorials laid out for Armistices day (called Remembrance Day in Australia). After a while i got frustrated with all the tourists smiling in front of the memorials to get photos taken like it was some kind of tourist attraction so we left. We kept walking down towards the London Eye and while James went on me and Ewen sat around in the cold, spending as much time as we could in a nice warm souvenir shop. we had some snacks in Leicester Square and then i went off to go and see the Legally Blonde musical while Ewen and James went to see Bill Bailey. Legally Blonde was pretty good, i was impressed that they used real dogs to play Bruiser and the hairdressers dog (cant remember her name or her dogs name) but the costumes and songs were no where near as good as Priscilla! I was spoiled seeing Priscilla at the start of my West End experience. We have booked tickets to see War Horse when we get back from Ireland so hopefully that is good!
Day # 3
We met James at Millennium Bridge for lunch and then we were supposed to be going to St Pauls Cathedral. Sadly at lunch i managed to pour an entire cup of orange tea (which was red?!) onto my myself soaking the bottom of my jumper and the top of my jeans. I decided to go home and change and get my clothes in the wash so they would have time to dry before we leave for Ireland. The boys decided to wait until the next day to see St Pauls so i could go with them. Instead they went to the Tate Modern to see the sunflower seed display and then to the Bank of England museum. We met up at Harrods later that afternoon and did way too much shopping. We had dinner at a Chinese cafe (more of a cafe than a restaurant) and then found an incredible bookshop. I got three brand new books for 6 pounds.
Day # 4
Finally we got to go to St Pauls Cathedral! We spent probably two hours looking around the cathedral and spending time climbing the 350 or so steps to the lookout at the top of the dome. After St Pauls we went back to Simon and Nells to get our suitcase (we had packed it the night before and it weighed 30kilos to begin with, we managed to get it down to 24 kilos so wish us lots of luck when we have to pack it and our backpacks to come home) and then took it on the tube to meet Andrew at his work.  We had lunch with Andrew and then while James went to do some more sightseeing me and Ewen went back to Simon and Nell's to pack up our stuff and organised last minute things for our Ireland trip.