London. I love it. Planning on living there. It was really weird for me speaking english. I kept saying merci and pardon. But what I loved is that I could understand conversations. But, I'm used to people not understanding english so, I had to be careful with what I said.
So we took a ferry on the english channel after the bus ride. Earlier in the week I lost my purse with my carte d'identite (which is my visa) ipod, credit cards etc. I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to go to London without my visa but, I got it sorted out. I thought figuring out the money system was going to be easy to figure out. Boy was I wrong. The penny is the size of a half dollar and the 1 pound is the size of a nickel. What?
The first day we went to Canterbury Cathedral. It was beautiful its more than twice the age of America. And a shout out to anyone who was in honors English 3, remember those mid-evil stories called the Canterbury Tales. Yeah, written about that city. The city was so cute. If you have seen the movie the Holiday that's what the city looks like. So cute, and since they don't celebrate Thanksgiving the Christmas decorations were in full swing. It really was like "walking in a winter wonderland." I had my first Starbucks there. My first one in like 3.5 months. I had the peppermint mocha. yum.
After we drove into London and went to our hotel. We were exhausted because we had been traveling all day but we still stayed up all night. The next day we went to Windsor Castle. The queen sleeps there once or twice a week. I don't know if she was there. It was so gorgeous but we were not allowed to take pictures of the inside. The castle had so many antiques from all over the world ranging from Leonardo da Vinci drawings to Asian artifacts. After I was on the hunt for fish and chips but didn't find any you'd think it'd be easy in England its not an easy task. So failed to find fish and chips in Windsor but I got to check out some cute boutiques. That night we went to the hard rock and had a real hamburger (of course not as good as the ones in America) but decent. And it had mustard! In Belgium the only mustard they have is Spicy Dijon. I've been missing my regular french's yellow mustard. Then we saw a play Blood Brothers. It was great. I almost cried.
The last day we did a walking tour of London. We started at the London Tower which really isn't a tower its more of a fort. We continued to see everything. haha We went to the main square of London and then continued to Buckingham Palace. Rotary gave us $10 for lunch and but, I think they found the only place in London without restaurants. Anyway Sam, Jordan, and I walked everywhere until we found a sushi place. So, You've might have seen in movies sushi bars where the sushi is on a revolving belt and keeps coming around your table with different varieties of sushi (again watch the Holiday) and thought it was cool its not. Its really expensive torture. There is a menu you can order off of but while wait for your meal this sushi keeps passing you buy at 3-5 pounds a plate for one sushi. It was hard to restrain myself I gave in and took one plate. After lunch we went to Madam Tussou's Wax Museum. Which honestly, I was not looking forward to. I thought I was going to be boring wax figure. I was wrong amazing and fun. And guess what I found after! Fish and Chips baby, fish and chips. And they were goooood. Then we went to The British Museum I saw a few mummies, the book of the dead, and the Rosetta Stone. Then we had the rest of the night free in London. I went to China town with some chinese kids. The food was so good! (So I've mushed together two days here Just realized i forgot the order of everything)
Before we got chinese I went to platform 9 and 3/4. We didn't actually know if it was going to be there we asked information and they said there was one but while asking we thought we looked so stupid.
After I went on the London eye with 10 other kids. It was spectacular because it was the same week as the armistice celebration in England so the city was surrounded by fireworks while we were in the ferris wheel. My camera died while I was up there lame but my friends took some photos of me. It was one of the best days of my life.
So we took a ferry on the english channel after the bus ride. Earlier in the week I lost my purse with my carte d'identite (which is my visa) ipod, credit cards etc. I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to go to London without my visa but, I got it sorted out. I thought figuring out the money system was going to be easy to figure out. Boy was I wrong. The penny is the size of a half dollar and the 1 pound is the size of a nickel. What?
The first day we went to Canterbury Cathedral. It was beautiful its more than twice the age of America. And a shout out to anyone who was in honors English 3, remember those mid-evil stories called the Canterbury Tales. Yeah, written about that city. The city was so cute. If you have seen the movie the Holiday that's what the city looks like. So cute, and since they don't celebrate Thanksgiving the Christmas decorations were in full swing. It really was like "walking in a winter wonderland." I had my first Starbucks there. My first one in like 3.5 months. I had the peppermint mocha. yum.
After we drove into London and went to our hotel. We were exhausted because we had been traveling all day but we still stayed up all night. The next day we went to Windsor Castle. The queen sleeps there once or twice a week. I don't know if she was there. It was so gorgeous but we were not allowed to take pictures of the inside. The castle had so many antiques from all over the world ranging from Leonardo da Vinci drawings to Asian artifacts. After I was on the hunt for fish and chips but didn't find any you'd think it'd be easy in England its not an easy task. So failed to find fish and chips in Windsor but I got to check out some cute boutiques. That night we went to the hard rock and had a real hamburger (of course not as good as the ones in America) but decent. And it had mustard! In Belgium the only mustard they have is Spicy Dijon. I've been missing my regular french's yellow mustard. Then we saw a play Blood Brothers. It was great. I almost cried.
The last day we did a walking tour of London. We started at the London Tower which really isn't a tower its more of a fort. We continued to see everything. haha We went to the main square of London and then continued to Buckingham Palace. Rotary gave us $10 for lunch and but, I think they found the only place in London without restaurants. Anyway Sam, Jordan, and I walked everywhere until we found a sushi place. So, You've might have seen in movies sushi bars where the sushi is on a revolving belt and keeps coming around your table with different varieties of sushi (again watch the Holiday) and thought it was cool its not. Its really expensive torture. There is a menu you can order off of but while wait for your meal this sushi keeps passing you buy at 3-5 pounds a plate for one sushi. It was hard to restrain myself I gave in and took one plate. After lunch we went to Madam Tussou's Wax Museum. Which honestly, I was not looking forward to. I thought I was going to be boring wax figure. I was wrong amazing and fun. And guess what I found after! Fish and Chips baby, fish and chips. And they were goooood. Then we went to The British Museum I saw a few mummies, the book of the dead, and the Rosetta Stone. Then we had the rest of the night free in London. I went to China town with some chinese kids. The food was so good! (So I've mushed together two days here Just realized i forgot the order of everything)
Before we got chinese I went to platform 9 and 3/4. We didn't actually know if it was going to be there we asked information and they said there was one but while asking we thought we looked so stupid.
After I went on the London eye with 10 other kids. It was spectacular because it was the same week as the armistice celebration in England so the city was surrounded by fireworks while we were in the ferris wheel. My camera died while I was up there lame but my friends took some photos of me. It was one of the best days of my life.
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