More London

My week-and-a-bit in London has been awesome not to mention expensive and its almost up. Tonight is my last night in london before my contiki tour starts tomorrow at 6am. Last weekend I stayed at my friend, Ryan's who moved up here to work a couple of months ago. He lives in a big share house with about 8 or 9 other people. On saturday night they had a Rocky Horror Show themed party which ended up being an awesome night.
We went shopping for costumes at Camden Markets, a fairly famous market which hosts, among other things, a large array of alternative clothing shops including many heavily goth themed places, we also found a shop selling bright orange prison jump suits.
Eventually we came upon a place that was selling full length leather jackets and coats for only £10! Even though they were mostly old and worn we picked out a couple of long ones for Ryan and I and along with some spiky metal jewelry for me and an assortment of stockings and other womens cloths for ryan our costumes were done. We hung around a bit longer waiting for Alexis and Michael (mainly Alexis) to finish their shopping and then headed back to their house.
As stated above, the party was great with some absolutely awesome costumes and much alcoholic beverages. Here are some photos of the night, although various parent types might not appreciate them as much as others (which ensures they are now DEFINITELY going to look at them).

On thursday I went on the London Eye, the 135 meters high observation wheel, the biggest one in the world. I got some good photos of the view which I cannot show you because of the computer Im on but needless to say, the view was spectacular. That night I stayed with one of Anna's friends, Ami (sp?) because she was in greece for a wedding. He told me a lot about London and how it was in the 70's when he first moved here from Israel including many stories of his various antics with the famous people of the time.
On friday I went to see the Tower of London where the crown jewels reside and many enemies of the thrown have been held and sometimes tortured and executed; including one Guy Fawkes for his involvement plot to blow up the houses of parliament. The Crown Jewels were pretty cool with The First Star of Africa, the largest (up until recently I believe) diamond in the world.

Anyways that, among a few other things has been my week in London and it has been a great one. Many thanks to Anna, Ami, Ryan, Michael, Alexis, Damo, Clair, Ziad, Jo and Ming (so sorry if I missed anyone) for letting me stay at your collective houses and to the random nursing chick who took care of me when I was 'vulnerable' on saturday night.
For the next three weeks Ill be touring my way around Europe and getting little sleep (probably). Until next time, have fun!