snowed in london town!

last weekend my team partner sophia and i went to london to visit my roomie from SF who is her good friend from school. nadia is originally from the hamburg school.  after 2 hours of trying to get in touch with nadia once we landed, our first stop was the hostel. after we dropped our stuff off, we went to the camedon flea market, which is only open on saturdays. it is the most amazing flea market i've been to in my life. being there made me want to move to london immediately! here is a picture of sophia, nadia and i at the market:

the next day, we got up early and went to do some of the typical touristy things. we went to see big ben, the eye of london, buckingham palace, national portrait gallery, try some pubs, have an english tea time, and get fish and chips. i didn't eat the fish and chips because they had the skin on them, but i took a bite of sophias, yuck! we were really lucky because that night there was a chinese new years celebration in china town. so lucky to see this! here are some pictures from sunday:

this made for a great day, but the night got even more entertaining... it started snowing. it hasn't snowed in london in 18 years. i feel so lucky that i got to be there for that. the tube, trains, bus's, taxi's, and airports all shut down. we were supposed to catch a flight at 6 am the next day, needless to say we didn't make it. our flight was cancelled and the earliest they could get us out was wednesday morning. so we got an extra 3 days out of london! we couldn't do a whole lot of touristy things because most of the transportation was shut down the next few days but we did catch regence park at night (in the beautiful snow), a great pub with an amazing menu, and the saatchi art gallery. here are some pics from that:

in addition to all the excitement from the snow, i did something BIG. i tried a muscle. not just one muscle but 3 different muscles. i liked the green thai muscle best but i also had a classic white wine, and tomato muscles too. here is a pic of me before i tried the thai one. i was pleasantly surprised, they didn't taste fishy at all. in fact they just tasted like the sauces they were cooked in. the texture wasn't bad either. they weren't chewy at all! i think i got lucky, they were really great! not that i'll be ordering them for myself anytime soon though. ha ha!