LONDON

So the day after we bought our plane tickets, we found out that the Oxford house would be closed on Monday, the day that we were arriving. So we decided that we could spend our first night in London. What we forgot about was all of our luggage...
Me, being the great packer that I am, had two massive suitcases of 62 and 70 pounds (right at the weight limit). So you can imagine my glee when we had to take the underground subway to get to our hostel. Getting to the subway involved crazy, fast escalators and TONS of stairs with NO elevators. I was SO sore by the time we got to the hostel (like three hours later). My back ached, my arms hurt, and I could not walk. We had a similar routine getting to Oxford the next morning, but it was a little better because we took a taxi to the bus station and took a direct bus...
We met up with Angela in London that night and explored the London and Europe night scene. We didn't really want to spend money, given that we were a group of six girls and everything in London was already SO expensive. We weren't having much luck in the beginning-- people were charging 4-5 pounds to get into anything, which is $8-10 per person! We finally found this cool-looking place called the Zoo Bar and we told the bouncer that we'd only pay 2 pounds per person to get in. The guy clearly didn't do math very well because he said he'd let all six of us in for 10 pounds, which is cheaper than we were willing to pay! The bar was awesome-- it had really good music and a good-sized dance floor. European guys are definitely more forward than American guys and this was a pretty international crowd. It was a lot of fun and I was glad that the semi-random girls I was travelling were up for having a good time...