LONDON
Making my way through customs in the UK, I had no idea how
this trip was going to progress. Am I going into a “Taken” situation? Will this
be fun? SO nervous to meet friends in international territory!! And Wow! London
was so striking! The overwhelming amount of character from the people to the
buildings was enough to make my head spin. I met up with Chris, who was always
happy to see me, and we took a cutie diesel E class to our hotel…The Goring. WOAH! Class and
sophistication don’t even begin to describe the vibe of this place, I see why
the royal family and queen stay and do tea here. This bo-hunk-ass Ohio boy was
sitting in the all wooden parlor enjoying tea and cocktails in no time! SO easy
to Blend in…I thought…NOPE! At breakfast we were so uncouth having inside voice
level conversations as the regulars nodded on with each other in silent
agreement. SO American! And it only progressed from there….we escaped our posh
residence to acclimate ourselves to the streets of London, dayam!!!! There are tons of shops, pubs, and
restaurants surrounded by beautiful structures. 
I hardly slept that night, not from jet lag, but excitement!
We were to meet up w/Brian, Jason, Bryan, and Chris’ nephew Ryan. Hubba friggin
hubba, these brits killed me. Bryan, Jason, and Brian are from the US, but Ryan
is a UK lad ;), oye. He brought his mate with him….Steve, whom all us gays
assumed was Ryan’s partner….they’d be such a cute couple! Anygay, we all met @
the biggest train station I’ve ever seen! It was insanity! (Victoria Station).
Another lad, Andrew, also joined us but was so-so, and I have no words for it.
We all went on a huge pub crawl, so hella fun. I DRANK BEER AND LIKED
IT!!!!!! Say what!!!!? Who am I? so good! A pint @ the pub w/ my lads J so fun!
This carried on into the evening where we had more good
drinks and dinner @ STK. STK is a very small steakhouse chain, stunning inside,
and 800€ later, the
most expensive meal I’ve had in a while – 1110$ USD! And it sucked -_- oh well.
So none of us liked it….that’s okay, we carried on. Wanting to show the boys
ZUMA we headed over, however, Ryan was wearing “trackies”, unacceptable attires
for such a place. So we ended up stumbling over to our hotel for some drinks :O
ahhhhh! The next day Chris and I got up to exercise and I ended up tossing
cookies all over the elevator and hallway of London’s 8th nicest
hotel -_-, go me! But who cares, today is NEW YEARS EVE! I was about to see the
show of fireworks unlike any other! Yay!
It went very well in the morning all the boys got together
and palled around London until the evening. Unfortunately, Bryan got the wrong
tickets for ½ the group, so they were in a different place than us, no bother!
We had a blast and these fireworks were the bee’s knees. And we got shhhhwasted!
And barged through the crowd of 500K + (!) holy shit! Such a crazy time. The
next day was even crazier! After sampling another of London’s finest
restaurants, taking a champagne tasting tour on The Eye, and seeing “the
sights”, we ended up @ Winter fest! Well, well, well, I thought this was some ghetto
little state fair until they had the most legit rides and drinks! I rode this
big ass tower that drops you in free fall @ 0g’s, very cool, very not me ;)
Wow, I didn’t know Steve could scream like that J J J , such a
puss.
