Day 22: London
Cj and Co. are gone... it's just me, Stace, and
London now :)
I woke up this morning and showered, Stacey still
wasn't up yet, so I went down to check with housekeeping to
see if they had found my cologne that I had left in my room
from the previous stay. No luck :X I did find Steve though,
and he invited me to breakfast with Canadian Steve, Renee, Loz,
Najet and Craig. Expensive, but it was an English breakfast
buffet, and I also brought back some for Stace who was still
in bed. When I got back, she was all showered and ready to go.
I felt so bad for her though, her cough seemed to be getting
worse, and she was all stuffed up :( Poor baby! We set off to
get her medicine, and also to drop all of my laundry off...
I was completely out of clothes again. We then went off to the
Walkabout pub in Shepard's Bush, because that's where everyone
was gathering to watch the Rugby game... we got there, went
inside, and no one was there! We left, and just walked back
to the Marble Arch, where I proceeded to almost fall down all
the stairs. Wow... talk about feeling like a dork, at least
Stace got a good laugh out of it ;) We hopped on one of the
bus tours and saw all the sights, it was great, heh, I even
got to see Big Ben and Buckingham Palace and stuff when I wasn't
too busy sneaking peeks at Stace :) She's sooooo beautiful!
I love all of the little things that she does, and today, I
got to see her do one of the cutest things :)
We were sitting on our double decker site seeing
bus, and out of the corner of my eye, I seek her quickly touch
her forehead, and then the tip of her nose. I couldn't help
but laugh to myself, but I didn't say anything. A few minutes
later, as we were passing the London museum, I see her do it
again, really quick though, so that I wouldn't see. I was like
"what the heck was that?" She blushed like 5 different
shades of red and smiled her beautiful smile, if I hadn't already
fallen for her, her cuteness at this very moment definitely
would have put me over the top. She told me, that ever since
she was a little kid, everytime she saw an ambulance, she would
always touch her head and her nose, or her head and her toes,
(nose is a lot easier, and a lot less conspicuous). Okay, great...
still doesn't explain why... but then she said a little rhyme,
which goes like this: "Touch your head, touch your nose
(toes), hope I never ride in one of those." How cute is
that? :) She's soooo precious, I think I'll keep her! It's
weird how everytime I see an ambulance it reminds me of Stacey.
Heh, not like I need more reminders of her though, she's always
dancing in my head!
Back to the story, we got off at Tower Hill, and
checked out the Tower of London where we got to see all the
pretty crown jewels. You couldn't take any pictures though,
so that sucked. As we were lining up to see the jewels, the
cloudy day quickly turned into a wet one also. It started raining,
and we got soaked pretty thoroughly. Stace and I "missed"
our appointment with the London Eye (we didn't want to go on
it while it was all rainy outside), so we hopped back on the
underground (took us a few tries to get the right one, good
thing we bought a day pass) and went back to the hotel where
we were able to meet up with Chauntel and Em.
For dinner, we went down to Wagamama's and had
some good Japanese food. The walk there was really fun, we got
to go through a little mall, and see all these shops, but since
it was rainy, and during the evening, a lot of them were closed.
It was still a little drizzly out after dinner, so we all decided
to just head back to good old Russell Square and our hotel.
Stace and I said our goodbyes to Em and Chauntel, and made our
way back up to the room, we were the only ones left of the group...
My flight left at noon two days later, so Stace
decided that it would be best if she left the next night, allowing
her to get a ride back to Oxford with the family that she was
staying with. Heh, she was gonna leave me a night before she
had to :( But I knew that it'd be better that way, and I didn't
want to be selfish, so i reluctantly agreed. We headed back
downstairs so that Stace could call them, and saw that the light
drizzle we encountered a few hours before had turned into a
crazy down pour. Stacey tried to call, but it turned out that
the other end was busy... so we decided just to sit up against
the wall, and wait a bit before trying again instead of going
back upstairs. We still hadn't really talked about what we were
going to do about our relationship... and seeing that I was
running out of chances to do so, I decided that now was as good
a time as any.
I honestly didn't know what to expect, I could
have gone either way really. I mean, yes, I wanted this girl.
Stace has been one of the best things that has ever happened
to me, but I mean, I had to be realistic right? There's the
whole distance thing, she would be in England to December at
the very least, which meant 5 months of definitely not being
able to see her, and then she'd be back in Canada... and I'd
still be in San Diego. That wasn't really what worried me though.
I mean, everything during the past few weeks has been perfect,
we've been on vacation, and so the rules are a bit relaxed...
what happens when it's back to real life? Would things still
be the same? Honestly, I'm done with school, I've got a job,
I guess real life has finally started for me, but for Stace,
she's still got so much going for her. She's still got to go
to school, get her degree, and a lot can happen between now
and then... I'm just afraid that I'm in for more heartache.
I guess it comes down to whether or not I should listen to my
heart or my head. In the past, I've always followed my head,
cause that's the type of logical person I am, but look where
it's gotten me, so I decided to mix it up, and follow my heart
this time around. Good choice? Jury's still out :X
So there we were, sitting right out in front of
the little giftshop, it was like 10 at night, and the lobby
was fairly quiet, but then again, I probably wouldn't have noticed
if a grand prix was in process. I guess you could say I was
focused on Stace ;) So, holding my breath, (not really, I wouldn't
have been able to talk if I had) and with my heart racing, I
calmly asked her what the future held in store for us. Hah!
I wish I was that eloquent, I think it was more like, "So,
uhmmm, yea... What happens now?" To my surprise, Stace
new exactly what I was talking about, and smoothly told me that
she wanted to give it a go, and see what happens. YES!
Ok, I had a BAZILLION things going through my
head. First, damn her confidence is sexy. She didn't have to
even think about it, she just outright said what she wanted.
Makes my job a lot easier, because as soon as she said that,
I knew exactly what I wanted, HER! Who was I kidding right?
I wasn't really thinking about giving something as good as her
up was I? Oi! I'm such a nutcase.
We just sat there, talking, figuring out what
we were going to do. Plan is, I'm going to come visit her in
the winter, and we're going to go snowboarding and stuff, and
then she's going to come see me in the summer, and we'd hit
up all the beaches :) I love how everything always works out
on vacation :) The awesome thing was, for a brief moment, I
totally forgot that by this time tomorrow, Stacey would be gone.
Stace got up, and made her call, telling her family friends
to pick her up tomorrow from the coach station, and we headed
back upstairs.
Three things I learned tonight: The movie The
Edge is stupid, beds with wheels are really stupid,
and there's no point in rushing good things, because they're
always worth the wait. Tomorrow's going to be rough,
but I'm ready for it.
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