This morning was really hectic! Getting 50+ people to the Tower of London sure was an adventure! We had to ride the circle line to get there and it took about 40 minutes.
Seeing the Tower of London sure was a site! It was smaller than I expected (I was kinda expecting a tower...) but it was soo cool! We waited outside for a bit and took a bunch of pictures until our professors got there. We soon went in and started with the White Tower which housed all the armour and stuff. King Henry VIII was one large man, that's for sure. It was interesting to see all that stuff up close. Some of it was really beautiful and intricate! So cool! :)
After that we went in to see the crown jewels! Now that was an experience! Too bad we couldn't take pictures! Holy cow! That stuff was sparkly! One of the crowns had a 530 carat diamond on it!!! I didn't know a diamond that big even existed! It was crazy huge!
Then we went in a few more towers and saw carvings on the walls by the prisoners and were prisoners were tortured. The interesting thing is that only 81 people were actually tortured, 42 of them actually in that tower. Its funny how people can blow things out of proportion throughout history.
We walked around a few more places and took some other pictures. Saw people putting on little plays and saw some more crowns and stuff. Pretty cool.
Then Kaitlin, Tricia, and I walked (slowly) across the Tower Bridge! Sooo pretty! The colors are amazing and beautiful! When we got on the other side, we looked around for some food of some sort... but failed. We walked back over and still couldn't really find anything cheap. So we just got back on the Tube and rode home. Tricia went home, but Kaitlin and I went to this cute cafe by our house. We both got some simple sandwiches for pretty cheap. They were pretty good. The cute Italians that owned the place were the best. The lady was laughing at us when we were trying to pay her because we couldn't figure out which was the 20 pence piece. haha. Cut us some slack people! We've only been here 4 days!
Then we came home and did some reading and looked up some info online about things to do in Brighton. We aren't going tomorrow after all. So, I'll post the fun info later when we go. haha
After dinner, Robyn, B.J. and I went and got ice cream (best mint choc chip ice cream i've ever had!) and then we just decided to hop on the tube and go somewhere. We got off near the London Eye and Big Ben. We just looked at prices and walked around enjoying the calm and cool night. We bonded and talked a lot :) It was really fun and chill! They are some fun kids!
We tried some British candy tonight along with the classic peanut m&ms (you know me) which was a bit of an adventure. haha
Tomorrow will be fun as well! Miss you all and can't wait to show everyone all my pictures!
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