Valentine's Day FAIL + Camden Market

I hope you all had a good Valentine's Day!  Mine wasn't so hot.  The title says it all.  I will try not to vent on here too much, I mean I have had a few days to cool off from.  Here it goes...

Bailey and I had big plans for Valentine's Day.  We were going to finish all of our homework for our British Experience Seminar which was to visit the Museum of London and and two major markets.  AFter sleeping in for the first time in a while, we set off for Camden Market with Abbey and Jessica.  Let me tell you, Camden Town is crazy.  It houses such an eclectic group of people.  There are super fashionable people, goths, druggies, and "normal" people all walking up and down the street window shopping and such.  For some reason I thought that Camden market was going to be a whole neighborhood deal, like the downtown farmers market in DM, but it wasn't.  It was instead a small uber cramped inlet, packed with people and clothing booths.  There were some really really cute items there, but there were no prices listed and no real comfort to look at them because it was so crowded.  At one point we couldn't move at all while we were trying to get out.

The infamous Camden Market

After escaping the market we wandered the Camden Street.  On both sides of the street stores had step up onto the sidewalks, and in that respect it was more like the markets I am used to.  We saw the outside of the British MTV Centre.  I haven't heard much about it, but I wonder if they do event like the American MTV station.  I would love to go to one.

The MTV Centre

After going to the market Jessica and Abbey went to Picadilly to see the fountain, that supposedly changes to red on Valentine's Day, while Bailey and I go see all that we wanted to see.  Our first stop was the Angel tube station.  We thought there was longest tube staircase there, but there wasn't, only the longest escalator which we had already seen.  then we went to King's Cross to get our picture taken at platform 9 3/4.  We got there just in time.  As we left, three asian girls came screaming around the corner to see it.  Yes, I will admit to being a freak about Harry Potter stuff, but at least I keep myself in check in public places.

Be jealous!

From there we wanted to go to the Barbican tube station for the Museum of London and then onto the Liverpool tube station for more markets, and we thought it was possible.  All the maps said the tube lines we needed were open, but when we got to the platforms, the we discovered that public transit had it wrong.  Everything they said, the opposite was true.  We still could have made it to our locations, but now we weren't in the mood.  Couples were making out everywhere, pink and red were adorned on all the walls, and I was growing sick of all the love in the air, and we decided to call it a day.

But the fun continues.  Not long after we got back the fire alarm sounded, but less than a minute later it turned off.  We didn't see people leaving but power was off in parts of the building.  After about 10 minutes I got a text from our roommate.  Apparently we were supposed to evacuate the building.  When we got to the lobby, a fireman was there to scold us a bit.  Oops!  The alarm really wasn't on long enough for us to think EVACUATE!  Turns out the wiring in our building is old and we had too many fridges plugged into one circuit, which led to a wire bursting into flame.  Its all good now, and they returned power to the fridges so we wouldn't lose our precious food.  What we did lose though was the internet.  It took over an hour to get our internet straight again.  Not a fun ordeal.

Needless to say I had the Valentine's Day blues.  It's just one of those moods where you're sick of society and want to throw a rock as hard as you can.  My dinner consisted of a 10 pound (meaning money, so the equivalent of $16 basically) burger at pub that was full of couples, and then walking home in the rain.  Thanks God!  Way to kick me when I'm down!  Of course the best remedy for a sad soul is friends, chocolate and wine.  We had a little single girls youtube get together in our room to end the night.

"At least if we are all alone, we're all together in that too" - Kathy Bates in P.S. I Love you.

Sorry!  I went a little emo on you there.  I think it was warranted though.  That night the motherboard on Bailey's computer died, which meant no more computer for Bailey.  See what I mean?  Awful, AWFUL day.  Anyway, besides Vday, everything else has been wonderful.  Updates on the rest of this week will be next.

Pip Pip Cheerio!