Spike takes Sarah to London to see Derren Brown

So, I don't normally do this. The idea of this blog is to type up stories from my life, however this one is very recent and may come across more like a typical blog entry. However, I had such a good day this previous Saturday that I felt I should type it up.
Most weekends when I go out, I go out to get drunk. I meet up with friends, go to the pub and get wasted on beer and sambuca. I guess there's nothing wrong with this as it can be fun, but from time to time it gets repetitive, expensive and often I do things I regret the next day.

 This weekend just gone has to ahve been the busiest all year. When I say busiest, I mean that there was so much going on. There was the Sonisphere festival, Rhythms of the world, Emily's Birthday, Todds Birthday and Teresa's BBQ, and am sure a couple of other things which have escaped me at this time.
Originally I had planned to go to Teresa's BBQ as I always have such a fun time, however Claire bought me two Derren Brown tickets for my birthday which clashed with this. For a while I was unsure if I should sell them and try to get soem for another date, but as the weeks went by, a few people said they may not make the BBQ and I wasn't sure I'd get replacement tickets if I'd sold mine. I also did not want to upset Claire as she has now befriended Teresa and could easily have found out I was at her BBQ instead of Derren Brown. So I decided to stick with seeing Derren, however it was not easy finding someone to join me as everyone was busy, but finally after a bit of persuading Sarah agreed to come. She's probably reading this, but I'm glad she came along as I know she loves Derren and we jsut had a genuinely fun day out without any alcohol.


When we arrived in London, we went to Davenports first of all. I told Sarah it was kind of secretly hidden away, which it sort of is, but I don't think she was impressed. Anyway I finally got to spend the voucher that Shibs, Mart, Debbs and Mark bought me for my birthday. Forty pounds doesn't go far on magic though, especially from an overpriced magic shop, but I got a couple of essentials and something new which looked interesting.
After that we were starving so headed for something to eat, but took a bit of a detour as we were trying to find a TGI's. This is when we passed M&M world. I'd never heard of it, and I beleive it's still quite new, but it's a massive M&M's shop in Leicester Square. We went in, and were somewhat amazed by the size. Kids and tourists everywhere. Then we saw a massive M&M pick 'n' Mix sections, and startign filling up bags with various colours. The bags got quite full and it was then we realsied that these were going to cost close to twenty pounds, so we dumped them on the side and had a photo taken on an M&M mock Abbey Road crossing (I'll have to pair it up with my real Abbey Road pictures and put them on facebook).

After a nice meal in TGI's we decided to head to 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' as we had a couple of hours to kill before Derren Brown. It was pretty expensive, but we had a voucher for '2 for 1'. It was fun, definitely not worth the money it costs to get in normally, but we took several funny pictures and had a good laugh in there. There was a six legged dear which only had four legs (which was quite possibly the most amazing thing we saw), several odd deformed humans, a mirror maze and a really weird funky spinning tunnel thing. We timed it prety much perfectly and got out with jsut enough time to get soem sweets before getting to the theatre.

Now, I know sweets in London are expensive, especially a pick 'n' mix. But we found one in Piccadilly and figured they'd be cheaper than the M&M's one, as well as having more variety. Maybe we got a bit carried away with what we put in. Sarah said she put two of everything in, but it seemed like a lot more than that. When we got to the till, we saw a packet of coconut M&M's, but being quite pricey we decided to stick them into the bag of pick 'n' mix. I'm sure this isn't classed as shoplifting is it? I mean, it's adding extra weight to the sweets so we're still paying for them, just at a lower price. The sweets came to nearly £16, which was a bit of a shock, but there wasn't much we could do whilst at the till, so we bought them and made our way to the theatre.

The show was good fun, and some of the confessions from some of the audience were quite disturbing. However I don't think it was as good as last years show, this may be due to him having different writers this year. I was also panicking a little bit halfway through. One of the sweets happened to be a blue lolly. I was quite happy sucking on this during the show, until much to Sarah's amusement, she pointed out that I now had blue lips and blue teeth. I was then eating as many different sweets as I could to try to get the blue to fade, I couldn't pose for a photo with Derren after the show with a blue mouth!
Afterwards we headed to the stage door to meet him. Unfortunately he was in quite a rush this time, and only had time to quickly sign an autograph and pose for a pic, no time to chat. The problem was though, our first photo didn't come out. I was happy to walk away then, but Sarah insisted we get another one. So we quickly asked for another, but yet again the photo didn't take properly, so had to get another. He was the nicest guy you could imagine, but he must have been a bit pissed off with us by now.
He then headed back into the theatre, and we started to walk back to the tube. However, he then came out a side door with his mates to wherever he was off to. I had earlier suggested we try to hang out with him, to which Sarah said was stalkerish. When he came out though, Sarah seemed quite keen to try to follow him, which i was now deadset against. So, we walked one way, suddenly he appeared near us again. He'd obviously have remembered us as being the annoying two who kept taking a photo. So we turned down a street to try to avoid him, then a few minutes later we realise he's now infront of us. It seemed wherever we went, he was there. I eventually had to drag Sarah down a street into Covent Garden to make sure we weren't going follow him anymore. I think she was slightly dissapointed by this though. We walked around Covent Garden a bit and then headed back to Kings Cross for the train home. Both of us were pretty tired and continued trying to eat some of the sweets we still had left over. I have to say that i have now gone off sweets, I had way too many.

So, I had a really good day, which I hope Sarah did too. Although I spent a fair bit, I didn't spend anywhere near as much as I do when drinking in London. I also had a more memorable day than when I go out drinking. I really should do things like this more often. I guess the best thing of all too was that there was no chance of having  ahangover the next day.