London: Day 3

For 2 weeks now, we have been in England, but have not had high tea, so today we decided to go. We researched and found that the capital hotel had really good tea for an affordable price. When we got there, it was not time for high tea (apparently it doesn't start til around 2 or 3 in the afternoon). The Capital hotel was extremely fancy and we were wearing blue jeans!! They were very kind however and set us up in the sitting room and put together a tea service for us! We each had our own pot of tea, tea sandwiches and cake. It was a very authentic English tea. After, we went over to Harrods to check that out. I could not believe all the things that Harrods sells. I was most amazed at the prices. The market in Harrods was my favorite. They sold everything from Betty Crocker cake mix to a ₤2000 bottle of wine! After Harrods we went to little Saigon. Little Saigon is a Vietnamese neighborhood in London. There we sampled some middle eastern and Vietnamese food. The Vietnamese food was really fresh and different from anything that I have ever eaten. The servers were extremely friendly, but we did run into a little language misunderstanding. We tried the Vietnamese iced coffee and really liked it so we wanted to know if we could get some more to go. At first the waiter thought that it would be ok, but he found that they didn't have any plastic cups. He told us that he could put the coffee into a little soup bowl instead. Kristin said that we had to go on the tube and it would spill, but he thought that we said that we will take two. So, he made two iced coffees and put them in the soup bowl and cut a hole in the lid for our straws! People gave us some weird looks as we walked down the streets sipping from our soup bowls. After our dinner, we went and saw Blood Brothers, a famous London musical. It was really good, dramatic and funny.