Yesterday was a long day and I was too tired to write out what I did... so here it is now...
Sun rises around 4 here, and lucky us, have an east facing window... I woke up around 6 a.m. to sunshine in the face. We had to be in the lounge by 12:30 for our orientation and I was not about to stay up for another 6 hours. Opened our dorm door around 7 hoping we'd catch a cross breeze and finally feel back asleep around 8. Woke up at 11:50. Perfect timing considering we didn't have an alarm clock yet!
Orientation was for the IES Residence Hall we're staying at and after it was over we were supposed to meet a tour bus outside for a bud tour of London. Well the bus never showed so we did a walking tour and I thought my feet were going to fall off. Very informational, but a lot of walking.
We walked through Chelsea to Trafalgar Square and then down Fleet street, the business section of London and past the London Tower. We went through Leadenhall Market which is where they filmed Diagon Alley in HP, and even saw the shop door they used as the Leaky Cauldron. We saw the Insurance company's building that insures all the big important stuff like oil rigs (ironically) and the Titanic... apparently there's a huge titanium bell or something inside that only rings when disaster strikes... it rang when the Titanic sank.
We grabbed a bus and stopped past somewhere and watched the guard get dismissed... we walked past the London Eye across from the mayor's house and the War Rooms... We walked through a park and saw the Royal Pelicans and then went past Prince Charles' house (he wasn't home. We know that because the British flag was flying. If the British flag is flying he's gone, if his flag is flying he's home.) Then we walked down to Buckingham Palace.
That took us almost 6 hours. We were all exhausted and all the stores we needed were closed... all the trouble because the stupid bus company messed up our bus order. So we were going to go to Brentford and go to The Griffin Pub (the pub they used to film Greenstreet Hooligans) to watch the game, but it was so late, we knew it'd be packed.
So we came back to Chelsea and got dinner at a place called PJ's and then left to try to find a pub or something to finish watching the game. That was a bad idea... the pubs were all super crowded.
SPAIN WINS!!! We stood outside the Blue Bird restaurant to watch the game because they had a huge TV screen on the patio and it was basically a completely open-air restaurant so the view was good. I was VERY happy with the outcome. My man, Cesc Fabregas, finally got some playing time! =]
So all in all, it was a day filled with walking and more walking, but it gave us a little sense of where we're at and where we can go.
Unfortunately, it's now been almost an entire day, and I'm sure I've forgotten parts of yesterday... maybe I'll come back and fill in the blanks as the come to me =]
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