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| Brick Lane |
It's been a busy few weeks. Trying to keep up with it all has been nearly impossible. Work has been wonderfully busy. I want to say it is the most fulfilling part of my life right now, but Ryan might read this someday...
Other than sprucing up my make up collection I decided to go to London to get my hair done. I know it sounds crazy, but it became necessary. I was on youtube watching makeup tutorials,
Jeni is my current favorite, but there are others. I stumbled upon
Andree on youtube, then migrated to her blog. Suddenly we were emailing each other a few times a day, and then I bought a ticket to London. Yupper, I bought a ticket to London.
Ryan has never been to London. He's been to Cambridge a few times, but never to London, so I figured kill two birds with one stone. Hang out in London, meet my youtube/blogger "pen pal" and have her do my hair. I think that's three birds.
Boy oh boy did I have fun. We stayed at the Hotel Tune. It was the smallest hotel room I have ever seen in my life. The only thing smaller could be one of the
hotel drawers they have in Japan. We flew in on Friday evening. On Saturday morning I woke up feeling like it was a very important day in my life. I checked to make sure I had the tube and overhead Google maps Ryan printed out for me and left him sleeping in the tiny hotel room. I wanted this adventure all to myself.
I ran to the station, stopped at the Starbucks stand for..for..I had no idea what to order at Starbucks. I have not been to a Starbucks in a long time and the barista's British accent only added to my confusion. I ordered a hot chocolate and then it was the barista's turn to be disoriented.
My accent confused
him. LOL Anyway, I got my hot chocolate to go, marveled at all the adds for American movies I had never heard of and reviewed the hair inspiration pictures I sent Andree. The salon was easy to find, Andree looked just like she did on youtube and her blog. She took my coat, and introduced me to my wash girl. To everyone there I had an accent.
How odd! I don't really have much of an accent so this was different. Wash girl offered me a cup of tea and it came with milk, sugar and cookies! After a pleasant wash and blow dry Andree got to business. My hair turned out great but, the best part was talking to her about hair, make up and other youtube bloggers. It was like talking to an old friend. It was the best day of my life..other than my wedding day of course in case Ryan is reading this.
