It sure has been a while! I need to write on a regular basis in here! But tonight I will just write about my trip to London that I went on about two weeks ago with my friend Robyn and her son Max. We flew there through RyanAir. Our tickets were about 20 Euro each which is AWESOME!
My friend Robyn and I went on a three day trip together to London, England! (August 20, 21, & 22) It was fun. We did ALOT of walking while there! But we got to see and do alot of really cool stuff! I can't remember alot from the trip but I will try my best to explain some of what we did.
We went to the Buckingham Palace for the Changing of The Gaurds and we got there like 2 hours early and it was already packed so we just took some pictures and didn't stay for the show. Instead we took off and got a start on our day of sight seeing.
We then went to the British Museum where we saw alot of really amazing stuff! They have things on display from all around the world there! It kind of reminded me of the movie, "Night At The Museum". Stuff you learn about in history books was there, like the Rosetta Stone. If I can, I will post as many pictures from the museum on here. It was pretty amazing stuff.
Next we went to the Tower Of London. It was huge! It was more of what I think of when I was a kid when I thought of a castle. They also had a room there where they kept the crown jewels. They were beautiful! I didn't know that you were not aloud to take pictures of them, oops! But it was a beautiful place to visit.
Later that evening we went to The Globe Theatre! It was amazing! We saw the play Helen there. It was a BIG circular building with an open roof for lighting. It had three stories for seating, lots of people could fit. And they even had a big open area in front of the stage for people to stand and watch the play. I am so glad that we didn't have to stand and watch it! We had been on our feet all day and it was nice to take a break!
That night on our walk to the train station to go back to our hotel, we saw "Bobbies" and got our picture taken with them. They are what the English call thier police.
We went to the WestMinister Abbey the following day. It cost 18 pounds to take a tour of the church. But we noticed a sign outside the gate of the church that said they had a survice that evening at 5. So we went back to that and got to go in for free. It was beautiful in there! That is one of my favorite things to do, is to go inside all of these churches.
Here are some of the other smaller things we did. We saw the Eye Of London, a huge Ferris Wheel. But did not go on it mainly because I heard that it cost ALOT of money. And we saw Big Ben, a huge clock. And we went in a church to a Crypt Museum that they had on the lower level. And I was able to stop at a telephone booth and get my picture taken in it. We stopped by the train station in London where the movie Harry Potter was filmed. I am not a fan of Harry Potter but Robyn is so we stopped and checked it out. I had seen the movie with her before though so it was cool to see where they filmed part of it at. We got our picture taken by the wall that was in the movie, where they ran through it with thier carts. And one of the last things that we did was go to Portobello Rd where the antique market is. Everything was SO EXPENSIVE! But they had some cheap clothing stores just outside of Portobello Rd.
The trip was fun but boy was I glad to get home! It wasn't really what I thought it would be, London had alot of litter. And ALOT of smokers who would just blow smoke on you as you were walking by. It was like walking through an ash tray. But the train and bus system was awesome! I wish they had more in America!
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