When we woke up today, we got ready and spent some time facebooking and trying to organise our day, before walking down to the tube, topping up our card a bit, and getting a tube down to Charing Cross. We walked out onto Trafalgar Square, where there were big fountains, lion statues, and a statue of a giant blue cock, and we met Amy!! We walked up the street together to a pub called Chandos, where we got a beer together, and had a good chat and a catch up on the things we'd done since we'd seen each other last, at Oktoberfest! After a beer, we walked up the street to try find something cheap for lunch, and decided on a sandwich shop called Francesco's, which was cheap and had a line out the door (so it must be good!). Amy and I got a panini, and Darren got a chicken pesto pasta, and we added some delicious spicy sauce to make them even better. After lunch we kept wandering to try find another pub with cheap beer, but couldn't find anything comparable to the Chandos! We ended up walking up towards Leicester Square where we found a mini winter wonderland that we walked through, getting photos with a giant penguin, and resisting the fudge stall, then stopped at a cinema for prices and times (we had plans to catch a movie with another friend another day) and discovered that they have the biggest auditorium in Europe! So we got a brochure and continued walking. We ended up following our noses and walking into M&M's world, which smelt delicious. The place was huge, about four floors full of m&m's and merchandise and all sorts of souvenirs, and there was a section with tubes full of all different colours and types of m&m's, which looked amazing. We ended up getting a very small bag each after chatting to a worker there, who was originally from Melbourne. We asked why the m&m's tasted so good there, and were told it was because they were so fresh, as sometimes the packets can have been made a year or more ago until they're sold to the consumer! Gross! From there we kept walking up Leicester Square, where there was a giant snow globe in the middle of an intersection that looked cool. It would have been cooler if the snow was falling inside it though! We went into a few souvenir shops that were around this area, and ended up finding a cool England sticker for the guitar, then headed back the way we had come and went back to Chandos for another beer, and to warm up a bit! We had a drink and a chat there for a while, then were met by Ash, who we had met on the tour in Scotland. She was very excited to see us again, and we all had some more drinks and had a catch up, and a laugh together, as well as making plans for our monopoly crawl we were going to be doing on Saturday! After a little while there, we walked around Trafalgar Square for a bit, getting some photos of the blue cock, then wandered a bit, trying to find another pub. We couldn't find one, but ended up at a supermarket where we grabbed a four-pack of Fosters. We went back to Chandos for a toilet stop, then Amy had to go to catch her train home, so we said goodbye, then the three of us went and got some funny photos holding our fosters in front of the cock, to make 'cockfosters' which is a suburb of London! Pretty funny! The guy taking the photos for us was very funny too! After this, Ash had to head off too, so we said goodbye to her, then we decided we would walk back to the hostel. It took us about 45 minutes or an hour, and it was very cold to start with, but we were quite warm by the time we got back! We stopped at the sandwich shop, Pret-a-Manger, which are absolutely everywhere in the UK, but it was a bit expensive so we ended up back at the Chicken Spot, for a pizza and chips, which we took back to the hostel. We sat on the tables outside to eat our food in the cold, and drink our fosters, because you're not allowed to take alcohol into this hostel. We had a chat with a guy from Marseilles who was out having a smoke, then when we had smashed our pizzas and four beers, we went inside to the warm! It was glorious! We chilled out on the couches, using the wifi, chatting and watching TV, then after a while the guitar came down, only to find a string had broken in the case! Another guy staying there also had a small travel guitar so he brought that down, and a little jam session ensued. It was very cool, apart from the guy from Marseilles, who kept talking to me and saying some weird things, including how girls only ever play bass guitar because of the phallic shape of it (really?) and some other strange things. I ended up ignoring him and updated my blog for a while until my battery died, then we went up to bed.