Sunday, November 9, 2008

London England

I just got back from my London adventure today which was amazing. So many things happened! The stories start off right from the beginning when we almost missed our first bus. We thought we were taking a train but my friend noticed it was a bus and that bus was about to leave. So we had to run in order to catch it, but we did. When we got to our hostel in London we found it to be very very sketchy! When we walked in the door there were two cops there with some people reporting a theft. The people were just sketchy. So one of the girls told her mom about this hostel and her paid offered to pay for a hotel for us girls to stay in since she didn't like the hostel either. Our first full day in London we went to the movies along with other things that I cant remember. When the movie was over we came out and saw a huge crowd around and we heard someone yelling about Leonardo DiCaprio being a normal human being. It was his movie premier for his new movie and we were there! We saw Leo DeCaprio in person, it was awesome. 
The following day was taken up mostly by trying to find our hotel. At first we had gone to the wrong hotel in the wrong part of town. So we had to find out were the hotel we were reserved for actually was. By the time we actually got to the hotel we had missed the walking tour and changing of the guards that we had wanted to go to. That afternoon we toured around England, saw Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Buckingham Palace. We spent a lot of time walking and taking the subway. Then we went to a restaurant and ate Fish and Chips, thats right. It was pretty good too! And no we didn't end up riding in a double decker bus, we just took the subway. That evening we shopped a bit, we couldn't spend too much money, but I bought a European scarf and shoes! It was fun. The next day we went on the free walking tour around town that took us by Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the home of Prince Charles and Lady Camilla. However that day it was raining so after we lost our tour guide on the tour we just went back to the hotel and hung out and watched movies the rest of the night. Overall it was a ton of fun!

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