London, Baby

Our first full day in London I got up, went to put on my pants, and discovered that my zipper had somehow completely broken. Luckily, the plan for the day already involved a lot of shopping, and I was able to grab some dresses to replace the pants (I already own more jeans that I need, so I decided to buy a couple of dresses instead). 

We first went to Camden Lock, which I had completely missed my last visit to London, and which was huge, confusing, and kind of amazing. 

The Camden markets are a number of adjoining large retail markets in Camden Town near the Hampstead Road Lock of the Regent's Canal (popularly referred to as Camden Lock), often collectively named "Camden Market" or "Camden Lock". Among products sold on the stalls are crafts, clothing, bric-a-brac, and fast food. It is the fourth-most popular visitor attraction in London, attracting approximately 100,000 people each weekend.

It was also gorgeously sunny out, a refreshing change from the previous miserable weeks in Scotland, and we all attempted to soak up as much sunlight as possible (especially important as it proceeded to rain the next two days, finally getting nice out again when we stopped spending our days outside, and the LBF started. Typical).

There were a LOT of people in Camden, and though I didn't buy anything, there was a huge variety of things for sale in the market(s).

I was super excited by all the flowering trees we were seeing around London. I just love flowering trees.

After we left Camden we headed up to Oxford street to do some shopping (I still had only broken jeans at this point).

Melissa doing her best hippie impression.

After that, we headed over to the only Five Guys in Britain. There was a line up outside as it is very popular, but it moved fast and we were seated in no time.

Out of all the things I miss about Canada, food has got to be one of the main ones.

That night we played Cards Against Humanity back at the hostel, and then Melissa, Leanne, and myself went to see Divergent, which was meh. Definitely nowhere near as good as the book.