New Year's Eve in London!

Jake and I spent New Year's Eve with the Lakes in London.  It's a crazy place to ring in the new year!  We  were jet lagged from getting home the night before, but had fun.  We tried a new Mexican restaurant and then browsed some shops.  After that we headed over to a comedy club in Covent Garden.  We thought we'd be able to see the fireworks after the show, but there were so many people downtown that I guess we would have had to claim a spot a lot earlier in the evening.  All the streets leading to the fireworks were fenced off, and the buildings are so high that they blocked our view.   People were just celebrating in the streets when it came time to count down to midnight so we just soaked up the crazy atmosphere!  Next year we'll go down just for the fireworks :)    Some pictures from our night on the town...

With Tyler and Cindy..

Random entertainment all over the place.  You can hear everything from violin players to construction cone music while walking around on New Years Eve.  :)

We walked around Chinatown for a while.  Kind of fun to check out all the crazy foods in the restaurant windows.   They've got some great London/England souvenir shops there too.

Chinatown map...

I don't want to eat it, but weird roasted animals make for some fun pictures!

All the crazies around us for the countdown...  the city was packed!  Free rides on the London Underground that night made for some packed subway rides after too. 

And the crazies on the other side of where we were standing...  :)

Tyler brought some Martinelli's to celebrate with and we found some fun London shot glasses at a Chinatown souvenir shop...

The guys wanted hot dogs on the way back to the tube station...

Everyone around us was popping champagne bottles at midnight and Jake got popped in the head by a cork.    It hit his ear and fell in his jacket, and he found it in his jacket hood once we got back to the car.

 
A Fun New Year's Eve down in the blog book!  Happy 2012!!!  I think it's going to be a great year :)