I heart London

London was AMAZING!!! I had a wonderful time and saw pretty much everything!

Monday we took a train from Maastrict to Leige, changed to a train to Brussels, and then took the Eurostar through the chunnel to London! We arrived and took forever to check in, which made me glad that we're making all our all own lodging arrangements from now on.

I knew that Billy Talent was playing in London that day, and so as soon as I made it to my room, I went about finding out if I could go. The concierge let me use their phone to call and ask if they had any armbands for the exclusive signing left. And they did! So I ran to my room, grabbed my things and rushed to the HMV. I got a wristband and then wandered around the street for a while. The show was at six, and it ROCKED!!!! I love Billy Talent. I got them to sign my cd book for their new cd. I also met some cool people: a guy from Iowa, and a native English guy.

Ben, the Billy Talent lead, in person

That night we went out to a sports club, danced and had a great night. The tube closes at midnight, so we rode the double decker bus back.

Tuesday we left early and saw: T (can't remember the name) square, St. Paul's (where Princess Di got married), Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Parliament and Big Ben, the London Eye, the London Tower, London Tower and London bridge, and Shakespeare's Globe Theater. We ate lunch at this cute Sushi place, and saw Stomp! that night. Stomp was crazy!!! On the train back, we had our own version.


Wednesday we had a great wakeup call. The fire alarm went off. I ran down seven flights of stairs barefoot and waited outside. I felt bad for those who were on the higher (like 16) floors. I grabbed my purse and important documents before I left, so I have pictures!
The whole group went to the Science Museum, and saw cool medical history exhibits. Then we went to the Gordon Museum (of diseased organs), which was interesting. My group went to the British Museum, where we looked at mummies and saw pieces of the Parthenon and the Rosetta stone! We had too much fun taking pictures with the priceless art. We then shot over to King's Cross, where we saw... Platform 9 and 3/4!! It was really cool. We had Pizza Express for dinner, and then went to see Phantom of the Opera. It was so pretty and wonderful and awesome.

Thursday we went to Buckingham palace again, to get pictures with the guards (we failed). Then we walked Hyde park, which was so pretty! We ended our London adventure with a little shopping at the Hard Rock Cafe. Then we came back!!

So, I had an amazing time. I wish we would have had more time, but oh well. I had a great time, spent too much money, and took tons of pictures.

I'm leaving tomorrow after class on a night train to Copenhagen. I'm going with 4 other people. We're going to spend Saturday there, and be back on Sunday morning.

I LOVE traveling/living/being in Europe!