MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR.!!!! :D

Today's been AWESOME.! before I get into that though, I forgot to say that yesterday when a few of us were walking back from class, 2 guys in sweat suits sitting together on one bike seat (on one bike..don't ask me how.) pedaled by and offered to sell us drugs. It was a little bizarre- esp since we had just been talking about how our professor was commenting on the Weasley twins' drug using appearance. ALSO, my professor's good friend was Rupert Grint's tutor on set when he was younger & apparentally all he ever ate was french fries and coca cola. So my class for today was canceled & it's beautiful out, so I leisurely walked around Neal's Yard- where I went yesterday, stopping in little hippie stores and bookstores to look around. I went to Forbidden Planet for awhile, and bought the book The Colour of Magic- I thought it'd be appropriate to get in London. I'm sure it's even more ridiculous than the movie, and that's saying a lot- I'm excited :) Then I got pumpkin soup and a basil muffin from a small cafe and ate it outside on a turquoise bench listening to two guys play incredible saxophone and piano, surrounded by all these colorful beautiful bright buildings, right beside a building that Monty Python lived in for 11 years. After that, I went on the 2 hr walking Magical Mystery Tour.! Our tourguide, Richard, was really awesome and knowledgeable. He owns the Beatles coffeeshop by St. John's Wood, by the Abbey Road crossing. He's been a fan since he was 12, wrote a book 'Guide to the Beatles' London' (which I bought and he signed for me), has done these tours for 20 years, has the title "the Beatles Brain of Britain", and has seen them several times.! We saw Paul McCartney's London office in Soho Square- MPL (McCartney Publishing Ltd), Trident Studios (David Bowie, Elton John, and Queen also recorded there among others), the Gentlemen toilet's sign by Broadwick Street where John Lennon appeared in a comedy sketch with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Carnaby Street, The London Palladium (where Beatlemania "started," or was at least first time the national newspapers took notice), the building directly next door where John gave the infamous interview, Brian Epstein's offices, the former Apple Offices where the last live concert took place on the rooftop at 3 Savile Row (it'd be really hard to see them but they were definitely heard- unfortunately they were doing construction on the building, and it's going to be an abercrombie kids O_o at some point may turn into a restaurant with rooftop seating though.?! that'd be sweet.!), Mason's Yard which has the Scotch- where Jimi Hendrix first played when arriving in London, 45 years ago TODAY.! now called the Director's Lodge Club, and the Indica Gallery, which McCartney supported, and actually where John Lennon first met Yoko Ono when she was putting on an art exhibit. We finished the tour by the Abbey Road crosswalk, and saw the Abbey Road Studio. I'm going to have to go back with friends when it's less busy to get another picture crossing it- there's a 24 hour webcam pointed at the crosswalk that you can check out online.! http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/ Outside of the studios, fans have graffiti-ed and written all over the walls- it looks awesome, apparently the walls are painted white 6 times a year but keep getting filled up with signatures. I met a nice girl a few years older than me on the tour from West Australia- she was telling me about how much she loved recently visiting Liverpool and will only be here for a few more days before returning home. Later, Hannah, June, Casey & I went to a connection group from Hillsong- but there was probably 25 of us crammed into this tiny flat, and only 3 of them were guys- oh so attractive british guys. Everyone was super nice though and it was great to just go meet new people from all over.