Well I would have updated my blog yesterday but when I tried to get on the Internet it wouldn't connect and then we started watching Casino Royal and forgot.
Yesterday was wonderful and was full of adventuring, sore feet, and runny noses. Kaitlin, Rebecca, Koryl, Diana, Robyn, Eric and Danny and I traveled to Westminster Abbey. Kaitlin, Rebecca and I got up around eight planning to leave around nine but we didn't get out of the door until 9:40ish. It was pretty bad and then there was weekend closers on the underground so we couldn't get to the tube stop that we needed. So we got off at Victoria train station and walked for forever to get there and of course because we went on a Saturday everybody and their mothers brother was there. It was absolutely amazing!
I thought that we had cool stuff back in the stated but I have decided that we just have nothing to compare. When it comes to cool old things the UK wins, hands down! I saw monuments to people like the Bronte Sisters, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Handel. I saw the tombs of kings and queens like Edward the confessor (who ruled almost 1000 years ago), Queen Elizabeth and people like Darwin, Isaac Newton and Jeffery Chaucer! There is a thousand years of history in this Abbey! 38 Kings and Queens were crowned there and 17 are buried there, you cant beat that!
After sending a few hours in the Abbey we ventured out into the city in that area. We say Big Ben, the House of Parliament, the London Eye and an art show called Living Art. It was all these people dressed up and painted standing stone still on these pedestals. In front of the pedestal there was a money box and if you put money in they would start moving and acting and it was so cool. We also say this group of acrobats and one of the guys folded himself in the most painful looking positions I have ever seen. I cant even do the splits and this guy was making the splits look like sissy stuff!
By this point I was dieing because I had made the mistake of wearing flip flops and my feet were killing me and poor Kaitlin's allergies were going to kill her! After we got home I fell on my bed to rest my feet and promptly fell asleep and it felt wonderful! I worked on homework for a while and was actually was very productive. I am becoming very good at balancing facebook and homework! After that a bunch of us, 11 to be exact, went to The Prince Edward pub to get dinner. The food was really good and my cocktail was great, JK! The food really was good though. We then went in search of a galatoo (sp) place because I have never had it before. We ended up not finding one so we went and got mcflurries at McDonald's to celebrate the four of July. After we came back to the house and hung out and then watched Casino Royal, not a very patriotic movie but fun none the less. Overall it was a wonderful Saturday and I am looking forward to many more like it!
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