Bon Voyage: Valentine's week

Just a heads up: this is about to look like a post completely about food. Since it's Valentine's week, I guess it's expected though, right?

This has been such a crazy busy week! Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday here, so everyone eats pancakes. Naturally, they are more like crepes with lemon juice, sugar and nutella on them (ew) but we opted for the traditional fluffy American pancake, purchased pre-made at Asda :) We had a pancake party with a flat near here, just in time for me to get back to my hall to my flat mates setting off the fire alarm burning their pancakes! It was wonderful to have actual pancakes again, all that was missing was the bacon and grits!

Wednesday night, I went into central to see Hamlet. A few of my friends are in a Shakespeare class here, and one of them couldn't go, so I bought her ticket from her! It was performed at the Rose Theatre, the first theatre Hamlet was performed at. Of course, it wasn't in the same condition and was completely inclosed (as opposed to the open, 3 tier stage that the theatre originally was) The theatre is actually doing a huge fundraiser (4 million pounds) to recreate the open stage on the same ground, after they do an archeological dig. It was really confusing as they were explaining it, but I know that the floor boards we were standing on were from the original theatre, which was cool. I guess since it's protected under law, they can't do much to the part of the structure still standing (the part that the performance was in) so there was no heating and it was freezing! But the performance was really good!

Before the performance, we went to a cafe and got Nutella filled crepes, which were amazing, obviously. The waitress gave us plastic silverware, and as Caitlin was cutting into hers, the fork broke and flew across the restaurant, so obviously we were dying laughing as all the Brits stared at us. Well less that 2 minutes later, mine snapped off, so we completely lost it. Nonetheless, the crepe was worth the humiliation! We walked around before we could be seated at the theatre and caught some good pictures of St. Pauls at night, until it started to snow, then we high-tailed it into the theatre and waited.

Thursday was VALENTINE'S DAY! It is one of my favorite holidays and I knew it was going to be fun spending it with friends. After class, two of my friends and I went searching for cupcakes, and when we didn't find any, we ended up going to the Railway and getting cake, what's new! We ended up talking there for about 2 hours, and finally decided to catch a bus during rush hour, not our best idea. But it was a great day spent with new friends! Since USPS is not on their game, I'll be getting my present from my Valentine today, so yay for 2 days of love!!

Side note: we officially booked spring break in ITALY! We will be visiting Florence, Rome, Naples and Capri for 10 days of fun and (hopefully) sun! Tonight we are going into central for a friends birthday and tomorrow we are doing proper tea at Kensington Palace! xoxoxo