South Kensington, London Day 2

Hi,

So today was fairly eventful. It began with breakfast at 8:00 am, and then we left from our hotel to go on a bus tour of London. The tour itself was interesting. We saw famous cathedrals, statues, London bridge, London tower, Buckingham palace again, St. James's Park again, and other various buildings. And we saw the changing of the uard at buckingham palace. Nice.

This is St Paul's cathedral

Front row Diane, Jennifer, Laura, Rebecca, Clair, Michelle, Deepa, Kacie, Travis

Second Row: Garrett, Leslie, Me, Brian, Michael, Natalie, Susannah, and Ani.

Our guide Karen

This is London Bridge

These girls Susannah (spelling?) and Natalie made him laugh. Very unprofessional.

However, the interaction between the tour guide and our driver was much more entertaining. To begin, our guide was somewhat of an older man named Terry. Terry hates pretty much everything and is always angry. He would make funny comments all throughout the tour guide's presentation. As well, whenever the tour guide would ask Terry to slow down while we passed an important building, he would just keep going the same speed. So we saw a lot of London in a glance. He also had a lot of opinions abotu other drivers that were less than friendly. At one point when he was cut off by another bus driver at a light, (stop light) he just stopped the bus, opened the door and goes "I'm going to have a chat with him." Our tour guide didn't know what to do. So he strolled over to the other bus driver, and pretty much just yelled at him. Then he came back to the bus. I managed to make a video of the entire thing. We were all fairly entertained. At another point he told a traffic guard to "piss off," and our tour guide freaked out for his bad language.

This is Terry

The tour ended at about 1:00 and we headed to a sandwich shop that seems to be all over London called Pret a Manger. Apparently they have really good sandwiches. Anywyas so we ate there. They were ok.

Then we went into a museum called The Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons. First we saw the Museum of Anatomy and pathology. It was founded by this guy named John Hunter who apparently did everything associated with surgery in the 1700's. Anyways so he collected specimens of everythign imaginable and preserved them in containers. It ranged from unborn fetuses (feti?) to kangaroo skeletons, to a skeleton of a 7'7" man from the 1700's that was only like 22 years old.

Then we were allowed to go upstairs and see his anatomy collection. He collected specimens of basically everything that could be wrong with a human and preserved them too. We saw some pretty graphic things. Needless to say this guy was very passionate about surgery.

From the museum we went and bought discounted tickets to tonight's showing of Les Miserables. It was 22 pounds, which is fairly cheap. It's tonight at 7:30, so we have to go now to get ready.

Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.

P.S. Tim if you are reading this, can you find out if I can return this memory card. This is ridiculous and I am really pissed. Thanks

-James