Her Life is a WIP

What is it with days flying by and your realising it's been a bit over two weeks since you last updated when you thought that, surely, it had only been maybe a week, top?

My excuse is that I'm on holidays and, as everyone knows, times goes by differently when you're on holidays and, bigger excuse yet, I went to London for four days last week so I was otherwise occupied :)

We were lucky as the weather was splendid! Blue sky, sun shining. It was still a mix of warm and cold, though, as if the weather wasn't completely certain that Winter was over and Spring was there. Or, let's say it was Winter under the shade and Spring under the sun. Anyway, it was lovely :)

We went to our "usual joints" as in we spent a morning at the British Museum (and purchased tickets to the Vikings exhibit), had lunch at the Euston Flyer pub before paying a visit to the National Library. We went to Waterstones a couple of times, too, as I'm wont to do. We walked a lot all around London and its different neighbourhoods and made frequent stops at Starbucks when we needed to rest a little - perfect way to visit any cities, if you ask me :) We'd never visited the National Gallery before and decided to remedy that so this museum has been crossed off the To Do list. I also went to Camden for the first time before having a stroll along Regent's Canal and taking a break at Regent's park - we lazed under the sun for an hour and a half. I might have dozed off a bit ;) This was our second lazy break in a park as the first one was on Tuesday when we sat on a lounge chair for an hour at Green Park. Pretty nice :)

We'd also purchased tickets for the Making of Harry Potter tour at the WB London Studios and omg, this was absolutely fantastic! Definitely the place to go if you're even a little bit into the HP franchise... They'd promised us "breathtakingly detailed sets to stunning costumes, props and animatronics" and they did not lie, we had a blast ♥

Last but not least, I was lucky to spend an evening with loki_dip and enigel ♥ It had been ages since I last saw them so I was pretty excited to meet them again :) I meant to see yami_tai as well but a case of the flu prevented her from joining us :( Next time, hopefully!

So that was our fun little stay in London :) We got back on Friday and celebrated Easter on Sunday and Monday, respectively at my sister's and at my mother-in-law's.

As for yesterday, I went to Japan! Or, well, ok not exactly, but it did feel like I was far away from Paris. I visited the Albert-Kahn gardens and spent some time in the Japanese section, which was absolutely gorgeous. ( Case in point )

It was not only gorgeous but so incredibly quiet and peaceful! I could have stayed there for hours ♥ If you ever come to Paris and want to see something different, I highly recommend that place, you have to pay a fee but it's worth the 4€ they ask for the ticket.

Fannish wise, I've caught up on my shows the past few days, meaning I'm up-to-date with Person of Interest (that last episode!! The ending could have been a season finale of sorts, I felt. I'm even more curious about what they have in store for us now!), Arrow (what a mess!) and Hannibal (omg, the last scene of last week episode was just... I don't even know what it was, but it was something, wasn't it?) and I also watched the season premiere of Orphan Black (so glad to have the show back!). Fic-wise, I'm still reading The Musketeers and having a good time in the fandom; it keeps delivering new fic to read everyday. Thank you, Musketeers fandom! ♥

Speaking of reading... I've read Divergent while I was in London (ended up disappointed by the novel, I'm afraid) and I've gone back to reading the second volume of A Storm of Sword as I decided I was getting ridiculously behind on the series. Besides, many of my cousins are hooked on the show and I fear they're going to spoil me at some point, so.

There, the past week and a half in one little entry, how's that for an update? :)

Why must awesome weekends come to an end? Or how nicelyobsessed and I came back from London this afternoon. We had a blast - as usual when we spend some time in London, mind, I don't think I'll ever tire of visiting that city :-) We did all kinds of things: touristy (Tower of London, stroll on the bankside of the Thames, Westminster, Covent Garden, Picadilly Circus, Buckingham palace, Green Park, St James Park, Hyde Park), cultural (British Library, British Museum), geeky/dorky (Forbidden Planet and Waterstones), as well as fannish (we went to the Merlin meet-up on Sunday with krazykipper and yami_tai. Even better yet, they both joined us at the British Museum beforehand; I hadn't seen them in ages - and I'd never seen Kip outside of a convention, so that was new ;-) - so it was lovely!).

I also got to savour some Krispy Kreme doughnuts (at Harrods and exactly where they were supposed to be "it's at a corner of the food court thing-RIGHT THERE, YES"), lovely scones and a full English breakfast. We also visited some Starbucks - duh - and discovered EAT. but I was so obsessed with Krispy Kreme and scones before leaving that I'd have been sadface if I hadn't managed to eat any!

Obviously this isn't a proper report but there might be some pictures posted later on, for those interested. Speaking of, I do have some already, though they're more of the dorky kind that anything. We discovered the existence of Cool Britannia, a sorta heaven for tourists who want to buy souvenirs or funny shirts. Case in point, ( those two shirts ). Aren't they fantastic? I love them. And there were so many in the same vein, about 80's shows and ipod and Twitter and Facebook - all kinds of dorky shirts of love.

Anyway. We got home around 4.00PM, went to my parents' to pick up Jack-the-cat and we're now back home, already in our PJs (with my brand new Underground hoodie - because whenever I go abroad, I'm compelled to get a new hoodie) and lazying around on our respective laptops. Well, Cookie is busy petting Jack and eating some English tarts but whatever, Brendon-the-laptop is at her feet, waiting to be used too. It's all quiet and peaceful, exactly what we need, especially as we'll be back at work tomorrow *makes face* The only good thing about tomorrow is the new White Collar, really. But it's something at least.

Wow, I was inspired to take a day off today! I woke at up at 11.30 AM! And I can't even blame it on my going to bed that late last night: I think it was around 1.00 AM. Guess I was tired *pets self*

So, my weekend. WAS THE BEST! A complete success, absolutely wonderful ♥ ♥

Here's the short story: we - five members of the French Posse - left on Saturday morning for London. Bright sun & blue sky greeted us and it just kept shining all weekend long. We had lunch in Green Park, then we basically had a whole afternoon dedicated to shopping - Fortnum & Mason, Waterstone's, Forbidden Planet, The Australia Shop etc. - before we headed to the theater in the evening to see Avenue Q - HEE SO FANTASTIC! Then on Sunday we had a humongous English breakfast in a cozy little café, then strolled all around London and did touristy things - St James' park, Buckingham Palace, Westminster, wandered along the Thames to the London Eye, then across Charing Cross to end our journey at Covent Garden for a well deserved Starbucks.

And now, the long story. With pictures. ( The FP goes to London - Saturday )

( The FP Goes to London - Sunday )

In conclusion: I love the FP, I love London, I love London with the FP.

Oh, and something we learnt? Is that London is all about the sex. In the tube, your train goes to Cockfosters, then you head to Shaftsbury, and there's this statue of Ian Smuts. We most certainly approve!

There, all done! And now, off to watch Being Human with Jem :-)

Finally started writing down my London report *g* It's a good thing I took so many notes each night - or morning, depending - or else I would have forgotten way too many things. So I guess I'll divide the trip in at least two posts. This one will be for Day 1. It'll give me time to take a break and type down the other days :-) No pics for now, they'll come later.

First, ( our schedule for Friday )

Nice, don't you think?

( Then, the long winded version of the program - day 1 )

So to make a long story short, everything was grand and I couldn't have dreamt of a better introduction to a) the capital in particular and b) the country in general.

I mean yeah, can you tell I was completely in love with London right from the start? lol Also for the record, Tai spoilt me during my stay. She made of my trip a true delight, really *kisses again*