Today we woke up at around 8:00 am because one of the girls, who wishes to remain nameless.. Laura woke up and thought it was 9:00 am. Also I tried to close the curtain this morning to get rid of the sunlight and instead ripped it off the wall.
Anyways so we woke up and got ready. The girls frantically got ready and Michael and myself just laid in bed. Then we had breakfast. Oatmeal and toast. Then we packed and checked out at 10:00 am.
From there we walked to our new Hotel, the Regency. It was about half a mile or so away and much nicer than our hostel. When got there we met with our London representative, Nicole. She debriefed us on the week's activities and the set us free at about 11:00 to wander the city. We first went to the South Kensington station and rode the Picadilly line to Covent Garden and walked around. There were some markets around us and shops. Pretty cool for a night time scene. I took a picture with this street performer pretending to be a statue, and he grabbed my head.. but MY CAMERA MEMORY BROKE. I AM SO PISSED. So I lost a lot of pictures. All the ones you see, I had to borrow Kacie's memory card to use. THis was ok because her camera battery died. We ate lunch at a pricey cafe, food was ok. From there we walked to Trafalgar square and saw a bunch of stuff that we knew nothing about. Basically that was the theme of today.. seeing things we knew nothing about.
From Trafalgar square we walked through this nice park with a large pond. There were all kinds of duck and geese. Also there was this huge pelican walking right behind us, I thought it was a person. From there we walked to see Buckingham Palace.
Here is a picture:
We watched the guards walk around and do their thing, however, they were not what i expected. Instead of the stoic guards we are used to seeing in movies and stuff, these guys would move around and turn their heads to talk to each other. One guy had a really lazy stance, which was quite unprofessional. The palace itself was rather impressive.
From Buckingham palace, we walked a long ways to the Parliament buildings, but got lost. It rained on and off all day. We found our way, but first went into Westminster Chapel and went inside. It was huge and rather nice. I also saw this guy doing a confessional which I have never seen before.
Then we finally got to the Parliament building and saw "Big Ben" the clock tower at the parliament building. This was cool too, but we also knew nothing about what we saw.
From here we caught the tube (subway) back to our hotel and then we walked to an internet cafe. So this is where I am, it is about 6:40 and this costs 4 pounds an hour, $8 dollars an hour, so I don't have time to upoload all the pictures because the internet is so incredibly slow. Therefore I will post the pictures when I can.
As for the rest of tonight, Dr. Diller (our BME chair and professor of our summer course) came from Cambridge to London to come eat dinner with us. From there I do not know what we will do. Tomorrow we are goign on some tours and plan to go to an musical, possible Les Miserables. It should be pretty interesting. Ok that is all for now. Thanks for visiting.
-James
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