Teresa's 21st

Today (well yesterday now, because it's past midnight) was Teresa's 21st birthday. Happy birthday Teresa!

The plan was to go to Dirty Martini Cocktail Bar at Covent Garden at 6ish then Zizzi on the Strand for dinner.

I got home at uni about 3.30, and all I remember doing was rush around until 6.30 when we finally left the house. Oh and also bust out Disney tunes with Susan in my room. Alex next door knocked on the wall, and then 5 minutes later we heard him go to dinner.
He's probably wondering what on earth he did in his previous life to end up with a crazy neighbour like me.

Yeah well in between 3.30 and 6.30 there was a lot of chatting to people, getting laundry done, trying on dresses to decide which to wear, doing hair, makeup, passing around Teresa's card for everyone to sign, then waiting for Berlin's clothes to tumble dry, which is how I ended up with Susan in my room killing time by having a little singalong and writing some Christmas cards. (Yes, already. But only in spare moments.)

We ended up just going to Zizzi. Well Teresa sent a message at about 5.15 saying we should probably leave about 5.30, but no one was ready, the card was still being passed around, Berlin's laundry was still in the dryer...

But turns out Lorelle and Abigail were ready and they came by mine to get me before they left, but I said I wasn't ready and I'd just meet them there, so they went to meet Teresa downstairs, then just after they left my room Teresa came up (with Susan) looking for them, because Teresa needed to print something with Abigail's printer, and I told them that she'd just gone downstairs to reception, and that I'd meet her at the bar later, and Susan decided that she wanted to sit in my room and look through her bag to make sure she had everything for her trip to Paris this weekend... (She was going straight from dinner to Victoria Coach Station)... That's how Susan ended up in my room in the first place.

So after that lot of fuss Teresa, Abigail and Lorelle left, and Susan and I were in my room and Berlin was in her room waiting for her laundry. We started listening to Disney songs, then when we ran out we wanted to find some more on YouTube but the internet was down... this is when I remembered the genius of something called a personal hotspot. I have unlimited data on my phone plan. SO WE TURNED MY HOTSPOT ON AND STREAMED YOUTUBE. It was amazingly fast.

We left at 6.30. The bus came at 6.45. We got to Waterloo Bridge at 7.15. Dinner was a 7.30 booking. By then we'd figured out that there was no point going to the cocktail bar any more, plus there was the added drama of not being allowed in unless you were over 21, but then a few others from another halls were already in there so they let them in and... I don't really know exactly what happened, but the 18 y.o.s did end up getting in...

Zizzi was really good. The place was done up with a little bit of class

and the menus and stuff looked really rustic. 

There were 9 of us all up: Teresa, Wendy, Abigail, Lorelle, Jacqui, Berlin, Susan, Michelle and I. 

(I actually don't have pictures of everyone. I'm sure someone had a picture of the entire table)

Berlin and I shared a Cichetti (Chi-Ke-ti), which was like Italian tapas. We had 5 little dishes between the two of us. SO YUMMY. They served everything with this cold tomato-ey paste thing, but we just ate a little bit of it.

Then we had gelati for dessert. Mine was cinnamon, vanilla and chocolate :)

To finish off the night, we walked to Trafalgar Square and sand Teresa happy birthday! How special that she gets to spend her 21st in London !