Exploring Grand Old London with a disco to top it off.

I never thought that a day could be so greatly contrasted with innocence and coming of age.
This morning the new group that I'm with was planning on meeting at 9:30 to go explore London, however, somehow none of them changed the time on their clocks to 8 instead of 9, so they all awoke an hour earlier than intended--that was what time I was planning on getting ready to be out of their way. Instead, I waited until they were all done, so I guess getting an hour or two extra of sleep wasn't so bad... ;) Just had to hustle a bit more. :P
Koester and I were both new to exploring with this group (Luci was planning on meeting up later--she's been sick and needed some sleep) and they've been bragging of all the sights they see and miles the trek... today was an off day for them, apparently. We probably covered about 5 miles compared to their record 13. We went to Westminster Abbey, but it turned out that it costs 6 euros for admission (and quite frankly, I'm tired of viewing old Cathedrals and churches) so a half the group (Koester and I included) opted not to enter... we rather played Uno on the concrete for an hour... I didn't even win once. :(
After that we took pictures of the Big Ben tower, Thames River, the Justice Center, and a Temple. We met Luci for lunch at 1 for pizza and noodles. The noodle place served coldish food--my fish and chips were disgusting, and Luci wasn't impressed with her chow mein and chicken, either. After lunch we scavenged for the British Museum; once found, we had two hours to explore it and meet back at the entrance. For being such a big building, there sure isn't as much to see as you'd expect. I was bored and tired for the first half hour (dozing off while I read a guide pamphlet for it), so I got a mocha and chilled for a bit, after which I continued to feed my inquiring mind via observation and analyzation of the artifacts. I found the Greek and Egyptian pieces to be most intriguing. Also, when I first walked in, there was a time line for the number of pills a human will take in their lifetime... it was pretty impacting.
After the museum, we headed back to the hostel for a bit... I caught up on computer networking and tried to draw a few of the photos I've taken (no success) and then we headed for supper. Mexican food was the plan since this afternoon, so once everyone arrived, we headed to the restaurant with the Luci-Koester group where I soon devoured veggie-bean quasadillas, chips and an apple juice. Pretty yummy--I've missed Mexican food. :d
After supper, we met back in the court where a few of the boys played NINJA and a drunk homeless guy interrupted. A small game of Ninja became a mob of 100 people watching a drunk old man make a fool of himself. The mob chanted for him and tried to push others into the circle to interact with the drunkard; at one point the mob shouted "Silent Bum! Silent Bum!" to encourage his foolishness. Foolishness involving acts such as freak dancing with a nasty twenty-something year old tipsy bimbo withe her tush cheeks hanging out from under her shorts. Quite the show! Bravo! :\
After the "show", our group of 50 split up into those that wanted to disco and those that didn't. My intentions throughout the whole day were to not attend the disco, hence my attire of tan shorts, a T-shirt, and Teva sandals, however, my buds convinced me to. Karaoke sounded much cooler! The group decided no to disco, yes to karaoke, no to karaoke, yes to pub, not to pub, and then yes to disco, finally ending with "let's try a different disco since this one is empty". Quite the decisive evening,huh? So the final disco we settled on was packed both on the first and second floor. I had a lot of fun with our group of 8 that actually went, however, it was a bit awkward when some of my friends were freaking a little with strangers. I just let it go and reminded myself that we're not little freshman anymore, we're adults. I do miss being naive.
Ooh, and I had my first ever hard alcohol beverage: sex on the beach! Super yummy! I had one at the first club, the buzz wore off, so i had another at the second club so that I would actually dance. It was kinda cool being 21 for a week.