Tuesday, July 29, 2008
plans don't really work
We didn't actually go according to plan today. Managed to get onto the 9:38a.m. East Midlands Train to St Pancras. Had to stand the whole way though -_- Then, walked to the tube station. My feet started to hurt from those killer heels but I didn't give in. Got some maps and felt a little weird. It didn't make sense to me like it used to. Ugh. Rusty brain. -_-Made our way to Queensway(accidentally got off at Lancaster Gate) after that. Like I said, I knew I wanted to get to Bayswater but the damn map made no sense to me for unknown reasons. None of the restaurants were opened and we weren't exactly keen on spending money eating fast food, so we opted to sit@Starbucks and wait till noon.
Finally got to taste the highly recommended roasted duck@Four Seasons. (even though they've got another branch in China Town, the food here tastes whole lot better apparently) There were actually quite a number of people waiting outside the shop and they got in once the "open" sign was turned. Don't really know to explain but the duck was so good. Dearie had two noodle dishes in case he got hungry whilst at the Motor Show.
We decided we hadn't enough time to go for Street Art Exhibition@ Tate Modern and got back onto the Tube towards the DLR station@Bank and Excel London. Got to see other parts of London, may want to go some other time just to take pictures next time. I think by then my steps became smaller and smaller...-_-
Finally gave into the pain and changed into my flip-flops. Can die. No more walking in heels for me =( Took tons of pictures of the cars. Not many supercars and noticed some higher end car manufacturers weren't exhibiting. Dearie got serious checking out some of the cars on display. Like he was going to buy them tomorrow...LOL
Dinnertime, we met up with Will, Sharon, Rich n Liz. Will had mentioned on the phone we were going to one of the restaurants in China Town we'd been to previously. I didn't tell Dearie because he hadn't liked the place. Don't really know how we ended up at the Four Seasons@China Town(haha) We'd ordered 8 dishes, some good, some so-so. We were so full by the time we finished.
Didn't know what to do after dinner. Dessert? Couldn't eat anymore. Drinks? Some of us had to work the next day and well, Dearie and I had already spent £100 in total that day, we opted not to. Got onto the early train back to Luton and just chilled out. Will was asking where we'd gone during lunch and didn't sound too happy when I mentioned it. I didn't mind really because we had different dishes at dinner, but ... oh well nevermind.
Next time, I'll just suggest going for Japanese ... (too lazy to post pics here...uploaded the whole bunch to FB =P)