Day 6 - Going to the Theater..on a Monday?

We think our flat is haunted.

Correction, my flatmates think the flat is haunted. About five in the morning we all woke up to this pounding on our wall. It was like someone was walking along the other side of wall pounding the wall eight or nine times. We have noisy neighbors upstairs but this was coming from next door. It was a little freaky. Later that day, we all kept hearing a buzzing sound, like a phone vibrating. All of our phones were out and none of them were where the sound was coming from. A little weird.

That day we could sign up for extra-activities. I signed up for London Eye tickets (the big ferris wheel on the River Thames) and a soccer match. I am excited for both, especially the football match because I want to see as may sporting events while in Europe.

One of the last activities for our first week here was for a show in the West End. Our tickets were for Spamalot at the Palace Theatre. It was great. We all got dressed up (in picture from L to R: Me, Stephanie, Nicole, Jessica). We took the tube to Leicester Square. We found a nice place to have dinner at and went to the show.

Spamalot roughly follows the same plot as Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It is a very fun musical and I highly recommend it. Monty Python humor plus song and dance is always a good thing. After we gathered outside (our seats were scattered across the top level), we noticed a round bit of sidewalk rising up. It looked like a weird three sided sink. We asked someone what it was and he said it was a urinal. Apparently they are trying to clean up the city (I believe for the Olympics in 2012) and this is one way they are doing it.

That is all I have to say about that.

Until we meet again,

-Maggie the traveler