Love Is Like A Gelato Shop

First, let me just say that time here feels like a blur--granted the jet lag may or may not have something to do with that, but my last blog feels like five days ago, not two. 

Yesterday morning Jani, Lauren, Meeghan and I all went for a nice  5K run around Hyde Park. I can't even begin to describe the beauty of waking up a day break, and going running as the fog is just beginning to clear over the lake. I have never experienced something like that, it truly took my breath away (in such a way that I wanted to start singing "Take My Breath Away" from Jessica Simpson, but spared my good running buddies the pleasure). I am now incredibly motivated to get up every morning for my run. 

In the morning we had orientation where we recieved a little "exploration of London" assignment. A group of us went and we just got a little taste of different museums, bus routes, tube stops, shopping areas, Herrods, etc. It really was a great day. My favorite memories are the group of ten of us standing on the corner with a map the size of one street block, wide open, and 5 other little maps out trying to figure out where we were, and definitely making ourselves known as the American Tourists. Finally we just asked a nice lad to point us in the right direction and he was more than willing. Problem solved. Did I mention how my sense of direction has dwindles since I came to London? Well, it has. 

My lovely street

To top off the evening we made a very last second decision to go to a broadway show The Lion King. Because we are students we found out we can go to a show a half an hour before it begins, and if they have extra seating they will sell us poor students deeply discounted tickets. It was 6:30 and the show started at 7:30. We all changed at lightning speed (and for girls, ten minutes is lightning) and headed off! Wrong tube stop, lost lion king, lost time, and 20 pounds later, we were at LEGALLY BLONDE: The Musical. Yes, yes, as my father put it "now tell me one more time, you flew 9,000 miles, half way around the world, to the culture capital of the world, and saw THAT?" Well said dad, that was it. Surprisingly it was really well done. Give us drunk guys cracking up hysterically behind us (made the show sooo much more entertaining), people singing happy birthday over and over again, us sitting literally on top of the stage we were so high, more drunk birthday girls, and a pregnant ELLE WOODS, and once more us getting lost in London, and you had our evening! It was very memorable. 

So, you all are probably wondering about my title. I am getting there, believe it or not. 

We will start with Gelato. Well, take that back. Classes started today. They were good. Now, back to Gelato. We (Me, Jani, Natalie, Lauren, Jenna, Becca,and Meegan) were galavanting along Notting Hill, just exploring our neighborhood, doing a little school supply shopping and came across a cute little gelato shop,Mia Bella (in all honestly, I can't remember what it was called, so I made that name up). There was this amazing Peanut Butter flavor that Jani and I fell in love with. Now pause, just remember Peanut Butter was on the back row. Continuing, the gelato was amazing. After gelato we wondered our way back to home, and didn't get lost. A few of the girls just stayed home, and so Meegan, Becca, Lauren and I went back out to see if we could sneak onto Embassy row (we got rejected last time we tried). Yes, we were successful. Embassy row in incredible! It's amazing walking down a street of billion dollar homes, and knowing their backyard is shared with Kensington Palace, and they had all been there for hundreds of years. 

So later that night my roommates and I (Jani, Jenna, Kaitlyn, Beth) stated up talking about love and all our crazy theories about it. Best conclusion of the night, Love is like a gelato shop. You can't see all the flavors, but the ice cream man can, so you need to ask the gelato man what flavor he thinks will fit you best, which will be peanut butter of course. So, we know it's deep if we tell someone that we "found our peanut butter gelato"

Well, this was actually from two days ago and I never got around to posting it, so do forgive me. I will give today and tomorrow's update tomorrow night. 

Teaser: Party like a Rockstar, YSA style.