BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

hi guys!! so i know the title is a little dramatic but i seriously just had the best day of my life!!!!! i am on the craziest high right now and feeling so blessed!!!!! 
so this morning was our tour of parliament! since it's saturday we have no breakfast so me and chelsea got up extra early to go do portobello market and hopefully find some breakfast. portobello market is the coolest thing ever! my favorite market so far!! it has the coolest antiques, it's HUGE, so many nooks and crannies.. i love it!! we didn't have much time because we had to make it back to the centre to meet to leave for parliament.. but i did have time to buy a first edition winnie the pooh! with the original illustrations! i know it sounds silly but i just love winnie the pooh and i know that will always be important to me. we were running super short on time so we dropped in a gelato shop and grabbed a croissant and hot chocolate then headed back to the centre. on our way there we actually ran into the stragglers that the group had left so we hooked up with them then got on the tube to parliament!
parliament was AMAZING. it is a must see!!!!! i love all the political stuff like how DC is so i was all about this. it blows my mind how many crazy traditions still hold in the british parliament. it is definitely not America! instead of the house and the senate they have the house of lords and the house of commons. there is so much history it's insane. it is so cool to learn because if you think about it, it's our history too! even if youre not of english descent, this is where our government really came from. it's so so cool for me to see the similarities and differences in our system and theirs. also it was just amazing to be in the building. it is so ornate and symbolic, much like our own capitol.. but even more so!!!  also it was something i have never done before so yeah. oh my goodness it was just amazing. that alone would've have made today the best day ever. but it just kept getting better!
after that me and chelsea had decided we were going to head out to do the 'olympic' tram and see the olympic park. but we were hungry! so we went to borough market first. i am so glad we did!! we had unlimited time today so we explored a lot more and WOW. that place is amazing! we found some crazy stuff. like one of the exotic meat stands.. they had kangaroo, ostrich, zebra, camel, llama, and elk and bison! the last two made me feel at home :) but we got some really really good sandwiches from this italian frenchy thing and it was so good. then i got an almond croissant for a treat and dang it was good. that place is so amazing. 
finally we were off for the olympic experience! i was dying i was so excited! first we headed out to the emirates air line tram, which just opened this month. its basically like a gondola that takes you 300 feet up in the air over the thames river! it was AMAZING. again, this alone would have made my day the best one yet but it just kept getting better!!! the view was so beautiful and it was just a surreal experience. one of the guys we shared a tram with was actually the guy that drives the van that follows the olympic torch relay! he was so sweet and enthusiastic and you could tell he was just ecstatic to be a part of the experience! oh my goodness it was so amazing. DAD- at one end of the tram they have this little fake beach set up with a pulley system where you can wakeboard! hahahah it was the goofiest thing i have ever seen, and i was actually tempted to come back and do it! untilll i looked down in the river water. there is no way i am getting in there. i would turn into a mutant! but i thought you would like to know that! 
after that we got on the tube again and headed to the olympic park! so you can't go in it unless you are staff at this point, and you can only go in it during the games if you have a ticket (which i will be doing in about two weeks, get ready!!! :)) so we had to kind of fake it. the olympic park is literally right next to this super super nice mall, it's the westfield stratford city. very nice and brand new. the store closest to the park is john lewis, which is basically nordstrom of the UK. it's the official carrier of all the olympic goods. if you go up to the top floor they have their olympic shop and this huge glass viewing deck. it was amazing. we could see the orbit (the big metal lookin twisty thing that arches over the stadium), the stadium itself, the place where they swim... everything in the park! it was so cool to see all the workers and signs.. i love the spirit of the olympics!!! like as soon as we got off the tube we saw staff with a sign waiting for the sierra leone team! how cool is that? AH I LOVE MY LIFE.
so we had done all we could there, so we headed back into the city for more portobello market! this time we actually walked the whole thing. most stuff was closing down but it was amazing anyways. i got a couple fun pairs of earrings and a shirt in a boutique. portobello is so cool! they have the coolest silverware, china, maps, brooches... all the good stuff. i love it. 
after that we had been planning on going to phantom of the opera tonight, so we headed to the west end to get student rush tickets. we got there and they don't do student rush! they didn't have any normal tickets left either so yeah. that was sad. but it was short lived... half of the girls with us went to mamma mia and i decided to go to BATMAN. there was a showing coming up at the coronet, which is the theatre right by our place! the old cute one. so we booked it back there, ran into a pret-a-manger and got sandwiches and fruit and got in!!! OH. MY. GOSH. this was the highlight of my day. dark knight rises is the most amazing thing i have ever ever ever seen!!!!!!!!! i went with chelsea and megan, megan was literally bawling at the end. (Tears of joy). i was sick to my stomach i was so emotional. i also kept punching megan (sorry megan), because apparently that's what i do when i get excited. when it was over we were cheering and screaming and so happy. apparently british people don't applaud when they like a movie because afterwards some old guys were like 'was that you that were clapping and cheering?' hahaha. so we didn't even notice we were the only ones. oh! also it was kind of funny, they had an intermission in the middle of the movie! kind of odd but cute haha. but oh my gosh that was by far THE BEST movie i have ever seen!!!!! i still can't get over it!! 
we sat in the theatre and thought about how amazing life was and talked about the movie for about 20 minutes then decided we should find some ice cream. everywhere was closed but we found this sketchy grocery store and they had ben & jerrys! so we got a mini tub of phish phood and split it! it was the best of the best !
I AM SO HAPPY and i am so incredibly blessed! oh and ALSO i got a card from my mimi today! thank you mimi i loved it!! tell grandpa and killer hello :) i loved killers little paw print in the bottom! this also would have made my day all by itself! i love hearing your stories with Dee! ahhh i just can't get over how much i love life and i love london and my friends and my family and yeah! thank you so much everyone! i hope everyone is amazing and my advice.. go see batman!!!!! and come to london! much love!!