Shaun's London Vacation

My journal for my London vacation of March 23rd - April 7th.

Monday, March 28, 2005

Hard rock cafe

I slept in late Sunday, recovering from my wild night partying. When I finally got up, everyone else had tried to go to the Wax Museum, but the line was so rediculous they just went to a couple gift shops and came back. We decided to head out to the Hard Rock cafe. Once there, we were informed there would be a two hour wait, due to the fact that two huge tour groups had just showed up, and were taking up the entire resteraunt. So, we took their little reservation pager thingy, and went acrossed the street to the store. The vault downstairs was open, and we got to go inside and see a bunch of amazing memorabilia: jackets, caps, guitars, and other instruments of dozens of famous rockers.

I bought a couple t-shirts, and then I convinced Kyle, Seth, & Deonne to walk down the street to Hyde Park with me. I very much wanted to go to Speaker's Corner, though they weren't really keen on the idea of walking that far. I wheedled and wheedled until they gave in, and we arrived there just as it was getting dark. What a sight! Random people would get up on a box or chair or anything, and start just talking about anything (usually politics or religion) to anyone who would listen. Several people had large crowds around them, and people in the audience were as much a part of the discussion as the speaker himself. Very interesting.

We made it back to the cafe JUST as the pager went off. We went inside and ordered our american-style burgers and things. Our GORGEOUS waitress was very friendly, and sounded like she might have been american herself. All around the resteraunt were screens playing (quite loudly) music videos of rock, new and old. The walls were also covered in various guitars and jackets and pictures and other bits of rock history.

After that we headed back to the hotel, I hopped online for awhile, then we all went to bed.

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