Life is short: get on the wrong subway train

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having lovely days, so that I can ruin them by making you super jealous of how awesome my yesterday was! If it helps, it is no longer yesterday, so even I am jealous of yesterday me.

After class and normalcy, Kaylee and I prepared to go to London, to see the Civil Wars. If you haven't heard of them then you are wrong. The greatest part of this plan was that it was a free show, so we just had to get a wristband, which we did, and then we were allowed in. We went and grabbed dinner in between the wristband-ing and the band watching. Then it was time to go be amazed! And amazed we were. Considering that their sound relies heavily on the quality of their voices, I was not surprised by how absolutely talented they were. It was a marvelous concert! They only played 5 songs, because it was a tiny in-store gig, and it was free, but that made it even better in some ways, because the small-ish audience felt really close to Joy and John, and they were so adorable! He is just really attractive, and she was being all cute and pregnant, and they sang and played so beautifully! I forgot to charge my camera until five minutes before we had to leave, but it had enough battery juices to take 5 pictures of the civil wars before it died on me.

I got one good picture of each of them, I think, complete with other people's hair in the foreground.

Before they played their last song, they announced that they would be signing some autographs, but only a limited number. I seriously considered being the butthead who goes and stands by the table while they were still playing, just so that I could make sure I got an autograph. I settled for standing and enjoying their last song (Poison & Wine) where I was, and then I was instead the butthead who pushes everyone out of the way to get to the table.

It was way worth it though. While they were signing my poster (also free), I asked Joy what part of California she was from. Without looking up, she said "Santa Cruz." I think I almost had a heart attack trying to make coherent words come out, but I managed to get across the point that my sister goes to UC Santa Cruz. At that point she looked up and saw me and smiled, raised her fist and said some wise words, that will stay with me forever. They were: "go banana slugs!"

All in all, Kaylee and I were pretty much euphoric when we left the store. So much so, that we forgot to pay any attention to where we were going, and just stepped on the first subway train that presented itself. Basically that was a mistake. But really, that just contributed to the awesomeness of the night. Since the concert was so short, we had an extra 90 minutes before we had to be at the train station. Seeing that the subway we were on stopped at Westminster, and seeing that we had so much time on our hands, well, we did what any self-respecting world travellers would do. We exited the subway at Westminster.

Coming out of the underground station, the first image to confront us was beautiful Big Ben, lit up and backed by the full moon. To say that we were euphoric is not at all stretching the truth. Kaylee and I wandered around London aimlessly for the next hour and a half, passing by Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, the Supreme Court, going through Trafalgar Square, where there was this really cool Olympic countdown machine, and all in all just thoroughly enjoying life. A lot of "hey. We are in London. Just chillin." happened, along with some "Umm...so life is great? Yeah."

In conclusion, it was probably one of the best days of my life.

Set list with links to music videos: First they played some song I don't know, then 20 Years, then Barton Hollow, then Billie Jean (a cover, obviously), then Poison & Wine.