Madame Tussauds and gigantic crowds...

Yesterday was part two of our exploring. We went to Madame Tussauds. Getting there was a bit of an adventure. Our original bus tour tickets were for 24 hours, so we had to get onto the bus before 10.30am to use it again. By the time we had showers, had breakfast and got our tickets it was already 10.15am. We thought we would make the bus to Piccadilly Circus, but then our bus tickets would be expired and we would have to catch a train to Marylebone. So we decided it would be easier to just walk up to Euston street and catch a train the whole way.

The guy at the contiki basement who sold us our tickets said that its currently school holidays, which explains why everything is so ridiculously busy. I would love that job. Its basically what I do now, except your selling tours and info to young cute backpackers, not families. It seems like its all aussies that work there! I asked if he thought Madame Tussauds was worth a look, and he said it was good, but we better get there early or else it will get really busy. More about that later.

Once we go to the train station, we realised there was track work going on and it would take us about 3 stations to reach where we wanted!!! The trains here are so good though. Even though it was still 3 stations its so quick and easy to find your way around. The platforms all connect well so once you get off one line its so easy to jump on another. Everyone told me that the tube was really hard and that Sydney is nothing compared, but I find the tube a lot easier than Sydney so far. Plus using an Oyster card to pay is so easy! You just load money onto it and then swipe it every time you enter and leave a station. Much easier than tickets. Now I just need to master the Red Buses and I might as well be a local! lol.

We got to Madame Tussauds and the line was huge!! Because we had pre booked tickets we jumped to a smaller queue which was good. It moved quite quick too. As soon as we got in we realised just how busy the guy at the basement meant. There were so many people!!! It was hard to get to all of the statues as some of them even had lines to have your pic taken. There was a few who I waited for, like Robert Pattinson (did that for you Aleta!!). It was good, but I wouldnt go back again this time of year.
There was this part in the Chamber of Horror where they had all the serial killers, where you enter this room and have to find your way out, and theres all these people in there who jump out and scare you. It was crazy, I was screaming so much!

All of the attractions seem to have 4D things, or rooms like that. Like the one at the London Dungeon which was 5D. You sit on this seat and there are screens all around where things are jumping out at you, you get sprayed with water, and you get a laser gun to shoot the things that jump out. That was really fun.

By the last few sections of Madame Tussauds we just wanted to get out. The crowds were too much and it was getting really claustrophobic. We needed to get to a pub!!
We caught a train back to Piccadilly Circus and found a pub (which was harder than I thought, theres 1000 theatres but no pubs!!).

After one beer we decided to play a game called pick a street. We would each take turns in picking which street to take. We went into this Newsagency to see if they had an Aussie paper, and we didnt find a paper, but we did find Smirnoff Cans for 2 pounds, AT A NEWSAGENT!! Needless to say, me and Laura bought one. We walked up to Soho Square park and thought we would sit in the sun and enjoy our drinks, because you can DRINK IN PUBLIC!!!!!

I love London. I asked the guy at the Newsagent about drinking, and he said its fine to drink in public, as long as you cover the drink. He seemed a bit dodgy so we were still unsure, but when we got to Soho square, there were people drinking everywhere.
It was so nice sitting there and the sun was so warm. I could have stayed there all day. Only two problems, I needed a toilet, and the fact that every person in the park apart from me and Laura were gay. lol. Good for Dono, not so good for us... We decided today we shall try to find a park that has both of 'our people'.

We came back to the hotel around 3pm and went down to the pub for a few drinks. We met a few people who were doing contiki trips, but none of them were doing ours. We had some dinner, then went to tescos to get more drinks and go back to the room. I was getting so tired by then, we had our drinks up in the room then the other two went back to the pub while I had a little nap.

That brings me here, sitting in the hotel lobby at 5am because I couldnt possibly sleep any longer!! haha. There is a trip leaving at the moment, and there are so many people!! Im so excited for ours now.