hmm i dont think i can wear my shorts here....

So in the interest of keeping my VA arrival a secret, i had to de-blog for a while so that i wouldnt give aything away! so i kept this undercover blog in my email so that i could post everything after the cat was outta the bag!! so remember this is all in the past- these things have happened already...


took the airbus 380 ( singapore airlines new airplane, seats 800 passengers, has those insane suites and everything) it was amazing!! seriously incredible- i think all other flights will now forwever feel like rickety old sea planes in comparison! when you take off you barely feel like you are moving- there is no weird sounds you can hardly tell you are flying! when there is turbulence it is much more subdued because the thing is like a beast! they also fixed some of the interior things that i had always been bothered by- i.e. the video controller is now stored in the seat back in front of you, not in the side, where you knee always pokes it and makes your movie fast forward or stop or something!!!

best comment of the evening-- scene- me and a semi-tipsy shar head to change money
shar : ( pulling out five hundred sing dollars) so do you think we should get euros or pounds?
me: what?
shar: well i mean we are going to europe so wouldnt we get euros?
me: (looking incredulous- she must be joking right?) um- did you really just say that?
shar: what?
me: um should we get British pounds or euros? mom we are going to Britain!!!
ahahahahaha
( i asked her if it was ok to blog about this and obviously she didnt mind- but she has threatened to 'get me back' i should really tell her that its not necessary, i say plenty of dumb things every day of my life......i will get myself back:)

once in london- at 7 am- we checked into the hyatt regency ( churchill as the locals call it) and then we went out on the town! it was FREEZING. when i got to singapore on thursday night i had literally tank tops and some leggings....i packed in a bit of a tizzy - jon and nick and i really did it right on our last night and i didnt get round to packing until 2 30, when i grabbed a handful of things and shoved them in a bag small enough to fit on jons motorbike and we headed to the airport at three!!! i really had no idea what i had with me......#

it wasnt pretty. so shar whips out this bag of stuff that she has hijacked from the 80's and is like you can wear this stuff!! haha im not even kidding- bill cosby called- he wants his sweaters back!!!! yeah so i decided my only options were a) freeze to death quite literally b) tease my hair and don the hammer-time long underwears and call it 'retro' or c) go shopping. obcviously i chose c....

i spent all day friday hunting for a winter coat in singapore ( ironic i know\) but in fact they have tons! all the international stores carry the seasonal clothes so there was a lot of stuff but it was pricey! but after a six hour shopping trip, i arrived home with a gorgeous coat from mango, some sweaters and long sleeve tops ( thank you TF) a scarf and two pairs of boots. set me back savings wise , but im telling you, it kept me from losing my dignity! haha

so into london we go....walking all around oxford street, window shopping, losing feeling in our faces!! i had a starbucks!!!!! first in almost 8 weeks..i know....sooo good:) ( for those who dont know the funny part is that i am back off the coffee- i am just addicted to chai lattes from there!) we went to the british museum which is an absolutely amaxzing building!! i have some pics of it and also of my favorite room- it was like a hogwarts library with these incredible old antique books just thousands of them!

after the museum we went to a pub and had lunch a some pints- i just have to say i cannot stop camparing how pricey it is too live here- sorry, i mean SPENDY! i had a cheese toastie for lunch ( essentially toast, with cheese on it) and it was 5 pounds..... that is about 10 us dollars. i could have eaten at the arungs for ten days straight for the same price. whoa.

then we went to see our show - SPAMALOT! to be honest- the word would be disapointing!! the theater was really cool- it was small and cozy but the show was just blah....i didnt realize that they would literally take the movie (monty python's holy grail) and replicate the best skits on stage. its just like uhh i have seen that fifty times- it was funny, but you have just killed it. the only funny bit was at the very end when they got this french guy up on the stage and were ad-libbing for him. guys dont quit your day jobs. clay aiken i apologize- i thought you were the reason that show got closed but now i see that it just sucked!!

so then back to the hotel to try and keep ourselves awake until at least 9pm!! it was a struggle but we managed to watch some rugby, some ice skating , the x factor and some of this scandulous dancing program that everyone is talking about! then i was out:)