Trip To London

We were all ready at 6:30 AM sharp. By ' we ', I mean Deepak aka Kido, Pratap aka ' the insane talkative man '...(well this name is cuz he refuses to give out some of his other nick names...but i will soon find out) and myself ( since this is my post, i am not gonna give myself a nick name ).

Deepak began his day as usual by dropping something at the breakfast table. His day has to begin that way...some kind of a lucky charm i suppose...on normal work days he has to drop either a knief or a fork but on holidays he has to drop cereal. So in accordance to rules, he dropped his choco chip cereal on the table. Good. Things were normal :).

Before i go ahead, I need to mention that deepak has been training very seriously under the tutorship of pratap for mastering the fine art of cracking the silliest jokes one can think of.

We reached London water-loo station and here's what happens...
Pratap : " excuse me maam, how do v get to London Central "...to a lady sitting opposite us.
Lady : "ummm U have to take the underground, its 2 stations further".
Pratap : " Oh okay...how do v get to the London Eye ? "
lady pointing outside the train window " Well...here it is, u just need to walk ".
Pratap : " Ohhh do i look dumb or what ? "
Anu and Deepak : "Yes ".


So we flew the London Eye. The view of London city was very very beautiful. Here's a snap of it.We could also see the Big Ben from right on top but we wanted a closer look....so we got a london map, went to a code cofe shop, opened the map, decided what other places to visit, went back to the railway station, studied some more maps on the wall, decided which train to take, which platform, which line , waited for about 10 mins for the train to arrive, boarded it, was quite crowded, so we stood for 5 mins and then reached the Big Ben station, came out and.......voila.....there it is right opposite the London Eye ....we only had to cross the road....but no...we decided to make use of the underground railway system :)))))




By now we came to the conclusion that all other places of attraction were "walkable" distances away and so walked all the way to WestMinister Abbey, Buckingham Palace ( we did not realize that an old building on our left was actually buckingham palace untill we read the board that said it was..yeah thats how "not palace - like " buckingham palace actually is.We then went to Horse Guards parade, Downing Street, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Tower Of London, Baker Street and hmmm....thats about it. ....Oh wait...for some strange reason, Pratap wanted to go to Trafalgar Square...he insisted on this all along and after a while we saw this tall monument
sort of thing and Pratap goes....."hey thats trafalgar square...lets take some pictures". So all three of us waited our turn to pose in front of the monument and religiously took 3 nice snaps ....only to realize later while looking at a postcard in some shop,that the great monument was at " Our Trafalgar Square" and not the " Actual Trafalgar Square of London".

All along the way, Deepak killed us with his PJ's....
Pratap: do any of u have a london guide?
Deepak : No but i have an electronic program guide. ( for my non-philips audience, electronic program guide is what we are working on currently )

We are at a coffee vending machine....
Pratap : Hmm where do i get sugar from
Deepak : Sugar Cane.

We are at a cofe shop...Costa Cofe...
Pratap: This cofe sucks.
Anu: I know...I want my Mom's cofe
Deepak : Then what will ur mom have ? ...This is an old one but deepak doesnt care.

We are at some old fort..
Anu : where are we ?
Deepak : here.

At one point, we wished we could kill him in self defense...thats allowed u know.

Well...all in all ...it was a nice goof-up filled trip to London.