If London itself was the Olympics... ~ This Cosmopolitan Girl

We spent three days in London, all were amazing. All deserve medals, but certainly on a scale of amazingness some where more than others.

London's Lion King Show for the Bronze!

Aboslutely amazing show! This was on our last day of London and after the Olympics and sightseeing all we wanted was to put our feet up and be entertained. Well that was an understatement to say the least. Now, being honest this opinion is coming from two people who met on the Disney College Program, so we are a bit biased but thats not the point! I saw the show 10 years ago when I was last in London and I remember liking it, but this time I LOVED it! These people are so creative to turn such a classic movie into an equally as good play. So many times throughout the play I was wondering how they would do certain parts (when the dad dies, the final battle scene, the cheesy love song, etc) and they found ways to do them all perfectly. And we got a great discount, so we were in the fourth row! Now, when you've seen a play in a regular seat it;s good, but it;s a completely different show up front. The facial expressions, practially getting spit on by actors, etc. Needless to say I think I let myself blink once or twice, but not a lot with not wanting to break the star from the actors. Anywaysss the show is coming to San Francisco and you all need to see it. You can spend 10 dollars on a movie or spend double that and get tickets for an unforgetable play- do it!
Heres the official commercial for the Lion King. Watch it.

Lion King on Broadway

London's Sightseeing Snags the Silver!

If you ever go to London or the next time you do get the hop on hop off bus. I will say this again for those of you who just skipped the first sentence- get the hop on hop off bus. London is big- don't try walking you will regret it and if you try the tube well they call it the underground for obvious reasons. And sometimes when you go they will only charge you for one person instead of two (this is where the major luck began!). The tour guides on the bus are either fantastic or absolutely downright dull, but since you are hopping on and off it really doesnt matter. Our first stop was Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and the Parliament!

Funny story with this photo you see we had to move back to get the whole building and basically bumped into a man. While turning around and saying sorry we (of course) noticed that he was dressed in the athletic gear of the Netherlands. For those of you who dont know their color is orange, so we were too blinded by the neon color to really say anything, but instead looked at his name tag. Really looking back on it that was the time to say something and strike up a convo, but whatever you win some you lose some. Anyways we looked him up and he turned out to be a fencer and predicted to be the best athlete the Netherlands had ever seen. We thought that was as good as it got! Wait till the gold story.

Next we walked across the millenium bridge also known as the bridge that got destroyed in the Harry Potter films. I thought it was fun and gave some great views. On the other side was the Shakespeare's Glob (how convienent I know). Now the globe is not the actual globe that Shakespeare created. Liars. So thats enough of that.

Next: The Tower Bridge!... not to be confused with the famous nursery ryhm "London Bridge is falling down." Actually thats the next bridge over. No, but it really is. To be remembered forever (as is our all common dream) we did the lock bridge thing. In Paris there is a famous bridge where everyone puts a lock on the bridge and throws the key in the river. Well we forgot the lock in Paris, so settled for second best- London! Also, it was right under the Olympic rings... thats got to be good right? Well anyway thats that. As with the silver medal story everyone just really wants to see the gold, so thats go on to that story.

London 2012 Olympics (really Michael Phelps) deserves the gold!

We got tickets for the duet sunchronized swimming final and medal ceremony. Was it on our top five wants in terms of tickets? No. Did we really care? Hell no, we were going to the Olympics! Our event was at 3pm, but we got there at 10am to the Olympic Park (where only ticket holders could go) to explore EVERYTHING! Were we ever bored? Absolutely not. Everyone was so so so nice! All the workers, military, everyone. London did it right. Anyways we walked around, got merchandise (an exclusive Olympic Park venue t-shirt rooting for Team GB- oh well they almost had it perfect!), and decided to take pics with everything.

Olympic Stadium! We were there when Usain Bolt had his 200m qualifier. The crowd from outside was deafening!

This picture above may seem random and maybe even pointless, but lucky we did cause it changed our entire Olympics trip! The worker who took our picture told us to keep a watch for the NBC interview stage because Michael Phelps would be showing up from 12-3pm. I'm pretty sure I immediatly screamed. We had to go to our event at 1:30, so it was pretty unlikely that he would show up at our wanted time. We asked for directions from another employee and she gave us what turns out the WRONG directions, but we were investigating a random stage when Michael appeared!

Random stage I think not- the right one indeed! We were shoved to the very front (not complaining) and watched while he was getting ready for the interview. Super nice and came around to shake everyone's hands! Well to make a long story short, we ended up shaking him and Al Roker's hands, met Matt Lauer and Jessica Ennis (Britain's heptathalon winner). Needless to say after that everything was downhill.....up until we were asked to interview. A man saw that I was wearing the American flag, pointed right at me, and said "American?" We were still in shock but agreed to the NBC interview. Before the camera was rolling he said he would ask me some questions about Michael Phelps- without pausing we both yelled, "We just met him and he shook our hands!!" He just stared at us and calmly said, "Woah wait for the camera ladies." Lets just say that when you meet one of the most famous people NEVER, I repeat, NEVER agree to do an interview right after because you will sound like a complete idiot, but whatever whats done is done.... and it helps that it was NBC KSDK aka NBC St. Louis.. NOT California. Anyways it was fun and our day wasn't even over!

The flag that got me my 15 minutes (more like 30 seconds) of fame.

Synchronized swimming was great, Russia won the gold, Spain the silver, and China the bronze. It was clear that Russa should get the gold, I dont know anything about the sport, but I can easily say that. The thing about sunchronized swimming is that they are not allowed to touch the bottom of the pool, so the next time you see girls in the air think twice about it being a sport. Better yet try it next time your in a pool and invite me so I can have a good laugh.