tattoos followed by a trip to the temple.

here's what i've been up to the past few days:

monday

valentine's day. i woke up to a package from my cute grandma & grandpa eichers. thanks for the treats!! later that night we all went to the swan lake ballet. everyone was getting cute because we had to dress up and because it was valentine's day!! haha.. i thought this was a good idea until i remembered that i didn't bring ANY cute clothes this trip. haha the ballet was pretty fun, even though it was very long!

tuesday

we all took a train to southall for one of our history classes. it's an indian culture about 30 minutes outside of london, and is often called "little india". we went to gurdwara- which kinda like one of their temples. they made us take our shoes off and wrap our heads in scarves. i of course brought one of my scarves that had tassels on it, so during the whole time at the temple we all couldn't stop laughing because it looked so funny. we all sat down and experienced their rituals in their prayer room. it was a fun experience!

we then went around and found some funny shops and we finally found a place to give us henna tattoos. haha- after waiting at the creepy hair place to get it done, and for the lady who was going to give us the tattoos to get her hair dyed. we all made kinsey go first because i was too nervous haha. we have all been laughing about our henna's the past few days because mine looks so ghetto and because the lady just didn't want to stop on kinsey's.. haha just kept putting more and more on each of her fingers. so funny! haha, we couldn't leave little india without getting fake tattoos, right?

after we headed to gifto's- a restaurant where our professors had made us all a reservation. it was a yummy indian food place, and it was SO good. i had never tried it before, but we ended up loving it. our favorite things were naan (kind of like a pita) and chicken tikka masala. haha we have been saying "chicken tikka masala" really fast in an accent for the past few days. too funny.

[faces so red from being out in the cold rain & eating so much spicy food]

wednesday

some of us went to the lds london temple thursday morning. it took us a little more than an hour to get there, and although the temple was really small (but their grounds around the temple were huge!) it was still fun to go to the temple together.

after a day at the temple, we had to make a quick trip to a museum that we had to go for school. overall, it was a a fun day!

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