A Rainy Day in London town...

We took a day trip to London last Saturday, and it was absolutely amazing. I cannot describe how awesome the experience was. We basically just walked around and took pictures all day, but we'll be back to do the museums and theatres and stuff. We saw Buckingham Palace, Parliament and Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Eye of London, and a lot more... I took like 70 pictures. St. James park in front of Buckingham Palace has the coolest assortment of birds and it was really picturesque. We also toured the inner temple of the Knights Templar (celebrating their 800th anniversary). It was really surreal knowing that most of the buildings are older than our country. We had a really good pub lunch that was suggested by some of the locals after we met up with some of the people from Oxford. Also, we got to see one of the most amazing fireworks displays I have ever seen. It was for the celebration of Guy Fawke's Day (watch V for Vendetta), and we watched all of the fireworks from the Blackfriar Bridge on the Thames river!!! We waited for the fireworks in a wine bar called El Víno and some really good mulled wine (it was really cold and rainy all day long...very English). Anyways, this is getting kind of lengthy, but the whole experience was great. We walked along the Thames and saw street performers and the National Theatre. The train ride was really pleasant (and we got to take pictures at Platform 9 3/4 from Harry Potter at King's Cross Station). Okay. Really done with London now. Saw an ABBA tribute band tonight as well, that was cool. Later everyone, hope you are well. Don't do anything I wouldn't do.

Cheers,

Cody

P.S. I'll try to update all of my pictures to Facebook soon...there is just so many of them!