Oh to be rich

After a very late start (everyone was moving so slowly I actually went and got the sides of my head trimmed while I was waiting) we headed over to Kensington for our second day in London. Kensington is a very very pretty, very very posh area of London, and very near to where Alix's brother lives, and where she was staying. 

Yup.

I think I could stand to live here.

We were headed for a pancake shop. I stuck with the classics (maple syrup and butter forever) but some other people were a bit more adventures...

... while Alix got a crepe the size of her head.

After that we headed over the Harrods, which was really cool, but also made me really nervous, as I was kind of afraid that I would accidentally hit something and break it, and have to pay for it.

All these glamorous ladies got macaroons...

... while Jack was just really stoked to meet Goofy. We went into the Disney Cafe because the others really wanted to, but I just got a glass of tap water, because a coke was friggin £4 there.

Also: Gandalf's staff.

Some nice, affordable whisky anyone? (tag reads £135,000 - apparently this brand's popularity shot up after James Bond drank it in the newest films and the only ones left are the incredibly expensive ones).

After Harrods we went to a cheap ticket booth for those on the hunt for musical tickets, but it was closed... however, we were also walking past M&M world and thus obviously had to go inside. Didn't buy anything, but it it was quite the experience.

And by 'experience' I mean exercise in gross consumerism. 

So much candy though...

After that... this might have been the night we went out for Chinese? I was pretty exhausted at this point so I was kind of a zombie for the rest of the night.

Pancake Party

So Fat Tuesday or Pancake day is apparently a pretty big thing here. I honestly had no idea what was going on when Eve invited me to a pancake party, I just heard pancakes and was THERE. Because I didn't want to share the kitchen with other people (I'm not very good at that) I made my pancakes before going over to Laura's. I really wanted to make Æbleskiver but my pan is currently in Canada and I am too poor to buy one here. However, I was telling Eve about this and she asked me if I thought a cake pop maker would work. I thought it might, and so did Connie, and it turned out that Eve actually owned one, so I borrowed it and... 

AREN'T THEY CUTE?! It worked really well, they were smaller than Æbleskiver usually are, but still tasty! I also made some normal yoghurt pancakes, and then headed over to Laura's.

However, everyone else was apparently much less prepared than me, and as I arrived they were all leaving, heading out to the store to buy flour and other ingredients, but the Sainsbury's by Laura's was actually out of flour (like, pancake tuesday is a really big thing over here for something I was totally unaware of). So there was a bit of challenge in finding ingredients, but we managed, and headed back to Laura's for Æbleskiver, yoghurt pancakes, crepes, and Swedish pancakes (it was a very diverse group of pancakes). The Æbleskiver were, of course, a hit, because they are awesome, and Melissa and I promoted the joys of real maple syrup to everyone else.

After pancakes, Ali brought out his edition of Cards Against Humanity that he had gotten for his birthday. I had to leave before the game ended as I had to get up at seven the next day, but Alix apparently won.