Sunday, May 25, 2008

More of Londy

Belle and I got these awesome shades..ala Kanye...

this was at the tower of london...where Anne Boelyn was beheaded.

Fish and Chips

Belle dropped the fish and chips into the street (it was super greasy and the bag broke). We almost cried, but luckilly, British people like ethnic girls and gave us a free meal.Tini and me standing on the London bridge (not the one in Lake Havasu). The bridge we are holding on to (the bridge we actually thought was the London bridge) is the Tower Bridge. Vurry cute.

On the TUUUBE.
Picnic at the park...bought some food from Harrods. vurry yummy.

On an escalator somewhere, probably getting outta the tube.

woo. londy.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Crypts or Bloods?

So, long story short, I'm moving because my landlady is pretending she never saw my dog who is now contraband. =(

Dave, Chloe and I are making the move EEEAST...to Echo Park.

I'm trying to be optimistic about it, and I'm sure I'll join the ranks of Silverlake and Echo Park die hard lovers, but right now...I'm worried about the commute and I'm sad to be leaving 122 Orlando.

Leaving this...


For this...

Historic Echo Park...
Some fun things about Echo Park:
was the hub of old hollywood...silent movies, charlie chaplin, laurel and hardy
originally called edendale
the current home of the most amazing victorian houses (previous post)
at one point, home to Jackson Pollock and Elliot Smith

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Just touched down in London Town

Taken right out of a song...Estelle feat. Kanye West. Heard it in London, can't get enough of it in LA.

London was so much fun.

first of all, we had amazing food...thanks to Erwan (and occasionally Bell too) who just took to the kitchen and made the most amazing food.




second of all, the weather was awesome



(alright that doesn't really demonstrate awesome weather, but i liked that pic so whatevs, just trust it was awesome weather).

awesome things i did:
1. made a guard laugh, ney snicker because I threatened to flash him.

2. saw the parthenon/elgin marbles (depending on your position in the debate about cultural property, looted property, stolen artwork etc) at the British Museum. We also saw other stuff, ie the Rosetta Stone




3. went to the tate modern where I saw the Duchamp, Manray, Picabia show and got in free thanks to my ICOM card (thank you Mommy Silvana).

4. got the bejeezus scared out of me in the london bridge experience


5. walked around from St. Paul's cathedral to the Tate Modern



6. Saw wicked for 10 GBP (about 20 USD)

7. Rode the tube.

very fun....

some not so awesome things that happened in London:
1. I got my camera, 20GBP and my oyster card (metro card) stolen totaling a loss of approximately $400. no fun.
2. We were on the tube and I saw an uncircumcized old british weiner "knob" poking out of an man's too-short shorts. Actually, this was pretty funny, I wouldn't say it was a down side.
3. I didn't feel that well.


Georgina is actually not in that many pictures that I scrounged up, but when I get home, I'll try to post more pics.

Thank you to my fabooo cousins Marco and Georgina for showing us around!!!