Birthday Celebrations and Peterborough Adventures

Hiya!

The next few posts are going to be in a strange order. I've got events from over two weeks ago to write about (and most probably bore you with), but if I do them in chronological order I won't be able to talk to you about the most recent stuff, which I feel are the most important. It makes me think we can connect more if I talk about things that happened a few hours ago rather than a few weeks ago... I don't know, it might just be me.

But I do want to tell you about my past weeks because they've been really fun and exciting. Though at this rate, with all this blabbering, I won't even be able to finish this post...

Today is my friend's birthday! We celebrated yesterday by shopping and having dinner in a restaurant which played We Are Young four times in 2 1/2 hours. Good song, but a bit too much maybe?

Though the restaurant's obsession with that song was nothing compared to the 'classiness'  of our eating. We had straws in wine glasses, knives in sundaes, and the remaining content of our mocktails tipped into various empty bowls to try to reach the blueberries.

We were dining like cavemen. Thank goodness there was no one around except the waitress, even though I think it was us ourselves who were responsible for keeping the people away. 

Anyway, as well as it being my friend's birthday, I also went to Peterborough today with my parents. Just a day trip, adventuring in another city. The journey was long and not so pleasant, to be honest.  There was an incident with our train tickets and a couple of terribly rude men, which nearly resulted in us having to turn back. But we didn't do anything wrong, so whatever.

In Peterborough, we did loads of shopping, had dinner in Pizza Express and explored the city's cathedral. We weren't allowed inside, but it was really pretty from the outside regardless. 

Annoying scaffolding >:(

Just added this in for the wonky window /=/=/=/

It's late now and I'm tired so... 

I love y'all

Toodles! 

EXPLORING BEIJING (01/09/2014)

Hiya again.

How are you? I'm all right, I guess.

Did you know that 'all right' is the proper way of writing 'alright'? Because I did not! I technically always spelt it wrong then, until just then when I typed 'alright' into Google to see if it was a word and it gave me 'all right'!

Mind-boggling!

Anyways, before I get to the main bulk of this post, I just wanna say...

OMG ultimate fangirl moment! And I'm not fangirling over a hot celebrity crush or whatever...I'm fangirling over Greek mythology! Nerds unite! In Latin today, my teacher was going on about how the Greeks hated not burying bodies after death, and how they thought that if a body wasn't buried, the spirit would wander around like a ghost. And OMG I just thought about Patroclus (The Song of Achilles - it's an amazing book) and the feeeeeeelllllsssss! And then that reminded me of the time I was in Turkey on a school trip, and we buried our other Latin teacher and he said 'I feel like Patroclus entombed'! I love my Latin teachers!

Anyways, onto the actual post...

So if you had read my last post, you would know that I had been sick whilst in China. Thankfully, it only lasted one day, which I'm so glad about because that meant I got a chance to explore Beijing!

In the morning my dad was doing some business stuff with a few people, so I decided to go out myself to do a little exploring of the surrounding area near our hotel. It was quite fun - I took my camera out and took a few photos:

A busy road. typical

[Insert quote about life and happiness here]

Aww how cute! I'm such a creep!

Beautifully foggy and smoggy - the view from my hotel room :D

Afterwards, I had lunch with some of daddy's colleagues who apparently know all about me...a bit strange! Not really, they were nice - I don't know who they are, but they seemed nice enough...

"I've heard all about you..." *evil smirk*

In the afternoon, I carried on exploring, this time with my dad. We acted like typical tourists, me with my camera hanging off my neck, him with a map in his hands. We first went to a sort of hilly park place with temples on the hills...I honestly don't know what these places are called, which is embarrassing...

Then we explored another park, which was massive and had a huge white tower thingy in the middle, surrounded by a lake. We walked around the whole park, plus going to the middle area, which must have been miles. My feet were hurting a lot after that, especially since I was wearing my sandals.

And finally, we went to Tiananmen Square (I remembered the name! Although it would be shameful if I didn't remember, basically everyone knows this place...). We arrived coincidently just in time to see the flag being lowered for sunset, which is a customary thing they do every day. At sunrise, the flag comes up, and at sunset, the flag goes back down. It got dark really quickly after that (duh, me! The sun had just set!) so we just wandered around the front of Tiananmen Gate to take photos...

In the dark.

At the end of the day, we were so tired, and we got back to the hotel kinda late - at 11:30 pm. Needless to say, I fell asleep really quickly. Though that's also because the beds were so comfortable. I'm not joking, but every time you lie down you literally sink down and it feels like you're floating.

Bliss

Anyways, that's all for today, I love y'all,

And goodbye! xxx