Westminster Abbey has to be one of the coolest places I've ever visited! I can't get over how one place can house so much history! It literally blows my mind! It was a beautiful place! I couldn't get over the ceilings and all the incredible architecture! That building is amazing!
I was completely surprised by how many people were buried there. Edward the Confessor, Mary Queen of Scots, Handel, Chaucer, etc. There were a bunch of memorials as well! Crazy cool! Some of the people really surprised me! Vaughn Williams was cool to see as well as Darwin and Newton. I honestly wasn't expecting all of that!
We took an audio tour which was cool. My favorite part were all the recordings of the Men and Boys choir as well as the Organ concerts that you could listen to as you were walking through. It truly was an experience to remember. We're going to try and go back for Evensung one night and maybe even tomorrow for a Bach organ recital! Crazyness!
Getting there happened to be almost more of an adventure. One of the tube lines was completely down for the day. So, the 7 or 8 of us had to change trains about 3 times and walk for 20 minutes before we finally got there. It was a fun adventure. Things were super packed in that area. People were everywhere!
After the Abbey, most of our group ditched and I have no clue what they ended up doing. Katilin, Tricia, and I took a walk down by the London Eye and enjoyed that area. There were some fun living sculpture people! I wish I had gotten some pictures of them, but we are definitely going back either next week or the week after and I'm super excited! We watch this escape artist man for a little while. We never saw him actually escape from the chains he was in, but he sure was fun to watch. Then we saw some cool guys tumbling and stuff.
Then later when we were home, Kaitlin and I had the craziest chocolate cravings ever! She and I ran over to Tesco and bought a bunch of candy and chocolate. It was fun!
For dinner tonight, a group of us headed to a pub called "The Prince Albert." It was really good and a fun experience! Then we headed off to see if we could find some ice cream, but we gave up and decided to go back to our roots. We went to McDonalds and got some wonderful oreo Mcflurries. Then we hit up Tesco for some allergy stuff and eye drops. Our allergies are all dying! Its crazy!
Now I'm about to do some homework (maybe) or watch James Bond. I'm losing motivation quickly. It not the best thing. haha
Love you all!
Happy Fourth of July!!
Big Ben with the London Eye in the background
In front of Westminster! There was a nice sized group of us before, but they ditched us before we found Kaitlin... sad...
Westminster Abbey! So cool!
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