Big Weekend in London

Hello all of you out in blog reader land. This weekend was full of fun with trips to the city and birthdays.

On Friday my good friend from graduate school Molly came to visit me from Cambridge. We happened to be walking by the area of London where a lot of the London fashion week stuff is happening. But we didn't figure that out for a little while, and were surprised to come across these characters at a cafe.....

Lets get a closer look, shall we?
There was also a guy (we think it was a guy) wearing Dwayne Wayne flip up sunglasses. SO hot right now.....
After that we walked in search of a knitting shop near Camden Road and went past my favorite shop in Covant Garden.



Sadly we didn't have a chance to go in Lush because we had too many other places to go, but soon, soon (sorry Chanda and Don, I did think about it!)


London's Chinatown, didn't get a chance to stop there but that will hopefully be someplace I'll be exploring soon. We did go to Liberty department store where they stock the entire Rowan yarn line and Kaffe Fasset's quilting fabrics. I was in heaven. To top it off, one of the women in the store asked us "Are you being served?" in a very serious way. We couldn't help giggling at that a little bit...


Later on, street performers across the London Jubilee bridge along the banks of the Thames under the London Eye.

Our last stop was iKnit, a fantastic little yarn shop in Waterloo. On our way there we stumbled upon this graffiti tunnel where incidentally they were shooting some kind of cop show (possibly Silent Witness?) Lots of guys in SWAT team gear, but didn't see anyone we recognized. We did however, spot some knitting graffiti (yes, it's a real thing, yes I have done it). How cool is that?

After a long day of wandering around the city we went back home and made chili that was waaaaay too hot and had birthday cake with Chris (he just turned 30!!) and went out with Patrick and Molly to the Duke's Head pub to have a few drinks. All in all a great weekend, wish it could have lasted longer!