So today was a whirlwind of difference than yesterday and in a very good way! This morning I was awakened by sunshine and it made me so happy! The weather was much better today and we got our first real glimpse of all of London. The past couple days we have only really explored what was near us and today we had a sightseeing tour that was awesome.
We started our tour outside of our flat which was really nice because we didn't have to walk anywhere haha. A coach bus drove us all over the inner parts of London and we had an awesome tour guide who knew London inside and out. Apparently the weekend is the time that everyone and their mom does road work because it was literally everywhere. We had to take a lot of diversions not detours to our final destination Westminister Abbey but it was still really cool because we got to see a lot. We saw where all the theater shows are and boy do the Londoners love the theater. We had to have passed at least 10 or 12 within a span of like 2 minutes and that's not even all of them. We'll get to experience it next week when we go see The Lion King which I may add I'm super pumped about! We also saw some of the shopping districts, a lot of the embassies, political buildings, St. Paul's Cathedral, and many other things that I just can't remember right now haha. The buildings and architecture here is gorgeous though. All the buildings here are just so detailed and just beautiful so I took lots of random building pictures just because I think it's so pretty haha.
After the bus tour, we took a tour of Westminster Abbey. I didn't even know that we were doing that today and it was awesome. I never realized how much history surrounds the Abbey and it was awesome learning and seeing all of it. We walked right where Kate walked down the aisle just a few months ago and it was crazy because it didn't even really look like the same church on the inside. There was so much royal wedding stuff everywhere, which I think was a little overdone but whatever haha. Our same tour guide took us around the church and I never knew that so many people are buried there! From poets to kings and queens to and even mathematicians, you name it, they were prob buried there. There is a man buried there in his coffin vertically because he really wanted to be buried there but was too poor to afford it so they cut him a deal and buried his coffin vertically haha. I thought it was funny but it was kind of creepy walking all over dead people. We saw the tomb of Elizabeth and both Mary's as well as many other kings and queens. It was really cool to learn about all the history surrounding them because the whole royal family is really interesting to me. The church itself was beautiful. Like words can't describe how intricate and detailed the inside and outside of it is. I would show y'all pictures but you can't take any once you're in the church...kinda lame but I understand. If any of y'all ever come to London though, definitely go to Westminster Abbey because it was awesome!
We headed up Knightsbridge after The Abbey and went to the famous Harrod's. They were having their one sale of the year and it started today so y'all can only imagine how freaking crowded it was. There were probably more people there than there were at Primark yesterday...it was nuts. There was SO many designer items and of course I wanted to buy all of them but maybe one day I will be able to afford it haha. I looked at a couple things but realized that everything is probably cheaper in the US so I didn't buy anything. Me and Allison did buy lunch there which was really cool except for the fact that we had to eat it outside the store because for some reason they have a dumb policy that you can't eat the food you buy in the store. Even though it was similar to buying food at the deli counter, I still think it's ridiculous that you can't eat in the store that you buy food from. O well we made do and ate on the ledge of one of the windows of the store. People probably thought we were crazy but I don't care because it was so good haha. I got some kind of chicken kabob and bean salad so it was well worth the awkward surroundings. After that, we hit up more shops along the same road and I got some jewelry in TopShop. I'll prob go back and buy some clothing there later in the trip but I don't want to buy anything now and then find something I like better later. Gotta see everything first right?
After the shopping, we got some dinner supplies and rode a double decker bus back to our flat. I really enjoyed that because we got to see where we were in relation to everything and we got to see things from a different perspective. After a long day we have come back and chilled for awhile which has been really nice. We'll be cooking dinner tonight and then heading out to explore the city a little bit more. Tomorrow we're going to a festival that is really close to our flat and we're going to try to map out how to get to all of our internships, which should be fun but possibly a little interesting. Guess we'll see! Until tomorrow!
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