#5.26.17

"Express Yourself"

today was the friday from hell.

the day started out fine, save for my terrible hangover that lasted a few hours, but we all went as a group to the tower of london and the experience was incredible. the towers and the stories behind them were really interesting, we got some good pics at the tower bridge, and we got to see the crown jewels. we were tired and hungry, but overall, the morning wasn’t half bad.

the problems began when we reached westminster. the original plan was to finish westminster abbey and the tour by 1:30 so that me, paige, sheila, karlie, and laura could go home and pack for our trip to Switzerland. the line for westminster was crazy long so we were all stressing out and had to ask brad if we could skip the whole thing and leave early. luckily, he was super understanding and let us go.

once back at madison house, paige and i began to legit panic. we felt completely unprepared and were sure something was going to go horribly wrong. we were so sure, in fact, that i actually went through the trouble of looking up if we could cancel the flight and get our money back. we should’ve stuck with our guy feelings at this point, but alas, we pushed through.

after a 2.5 hour long uber ride, during which our flight was delayed 2 hours (thank god or we wouldn’t have made it in time), we made it to Gatwick. we ate, went to our gate and sat on the floor waiting for further news. 

our flight got delayed again. this time, overnight. the flight wasn’t rescheduled until the next day at 5pm. by the time we made it to our hostel, we would have had 3 hours to spend in switzerland. so, with heavy hearts, we ubered home.

all in all, it was a 12 hour ordeal.