London

On Friday I went with 2 of my EAP friends to London where we met up with my sister who flew in from Florence. We spent 4 wonderful days there. It was hotter than I expected and disgustingly warm...very uncharacteristic of London. On our second day it did rain for about a hour or so. We got caught in the rain unprepared but still had fun.

London has an Underground subway system known as the Tube. It's such a crazy system and 100x more complicated than LA Metro. The city was full of tourist, it being a holiday weekend and all, and everyone went Underground when it started to rain.

In our four days there, we went to most of the major attractions. A lot of the popular places you have to pay for but we chose 3 big ones that we didn't mind paying for. London is an expensive city so we had to pick and choose what we really wanted to do. We found a good deal (2 for 1) for the Tower of London online so that helped ease the cost. We almost got a the same deal for the London Eye (big ferris wheel) but it was only valid after 4 pm. We went there earlier that day because Alanna, who's already been to London in March, said to do that early.

I don't have time to go through my pictures (1000+) at the moment but I'll upload some video that I took.

View from London Eye.

Big Ben chiming at 10 PM

Royal Guards walking towards Buckingham Palace for Changing of the Guards ceremony.

(We arrived around 10 am and the area was packed full of people. The ceremony didn't start until 11:30 am. I was a bit sad I couldn't see the actual ceremony but getting a front row view of them marching was great.)

Royal Guards walking out