Being Social

Dear Everyone,

what a week it's been! A lot of amazing things happened the last few days and I feel like this week went by in no time. I've been going out quite a lot, which might added to that. On Wednesday Celine and I decided to go to Pizza Express for dinner, just because we love it and had a voucher left. On Friday night we headed to Finchley to meet Jessi and Kaisa, two other lovely Aupairs, in a pub called The Joiners Arms. We ate delicious Fish and Chips and it was just nice spending a whole evening chatting, like girls do. 

On Saturday you nearly got blown away in London so we went to the Wellcome Collection. Next to the permanent exhibitions about medicine we visited the Tibet's Secret Temple exhibition. It will be on til the end of February. If you are interested in Buddhism and meditation I would definitely recommend you go see it. 

Sunday was one of the best days I spent in London so far. We took off in the morning without a real plan or agenda for the day. We got off the Tube at Paddington and then had a lovely walk around Little Venice. It's not Venice, but it is a beautiful quiet spot in London to escape the hectic city and we'll come back in summer for lunch on one of the boat cafés. 

We then walked to Queensway, because that's where my hostel was, the first time I visited London in 2011. I remembered all the places and it brought back great memories. After a quick Subway lunch we decided to go for a good old Sunday walk in Kensington Gardens. Right after entering we saw a helicopter flying pretty low and soon we realised it was about to land right next to Kensington Palace. While I was still joking around that it might be William flying the helicopter, people already started running to the fence behind which the helicopter landed. Of course we hurried there as well and after the arrival of two policemen Kate Middelton herself walked out of Kensington Palace to board the helicopter. She looked amazing and waved at all of us standing there. I couldn't believe that it was actually real and it still strikes me that I saw her. After calming down we continued our walk and along the way, we found a tree occupied by green parrots. In the middle of Hyde Park! Luckily we had bird food with us, so we joined all the people feeding the birds. It was amazing, them landing on your hands, trusting you. They are really pretty birds and their feathers are as soft as a pillow. The encounter with those little chaps was the perfect ending to an amazing day.

This week started off great as well, because yesterday was Pancake Day. We have a Pancake House on our High Street, so of course we went out for lunch, which was delicious.
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See you!