And then we fell down the rabbit hole….

Exhausted from a night of awkward, white-girl dancing the night before, none of us were in the mood to really “party” tonight. We heard that Shoreditch, an area a mile north of us, was really cool and filled with younger people. We saw a “chill” looking pub, The Electric Light Show, and decided to settle in there for the evening. For those of you who know the NYC bar scene- it looked exactly like the Dove. We were all really excited, there were comfortable chairs, cool looking people and soft music playing in the background. Overall, it felt like a pretty classy, laidback scene. Noah, midway through the night, had to go to the bathroom so he wandered downstairs. About two minutes later he came running over to our table and said that we had to immediately come downstairs- no questions asked. We followed him and as soon as I hit the bottom step I completely understood Alice in Wonderland when she fell down the rabbit hole and entered the alternate universe. Downstairs, there was a dance floor that lit up with colored lights and a band/dj playing live techno with about fifty people jumping around on the electric floor. I can’t really put into words what it felt like walking down the stairs from the quiet pub and into this thumping, brightly colored scenester world. Again, shamelessly we hopped onto the illuminated dance floor and rocked out to the techno- despite the fact that we weren’t all wearing skinny jeans, ripped tee shirts, and jazzed up thrift store clothing with Marc Jacobs accessories (that’s what they all were wearing). We were expecting to have this low-key night and instead we experienced the underground world of the London cool kids. That’s the beauty of living in any city- especially London…