Ohhhh goodness gracious. It has been an INCREDABLE and exhausting 24 hours :D
Got in about 4 hours late, and had everyone here completely freaked out and worried about me. Libby waited for me at the airport however, so I had a travel buddy for the ride across town. I pretty much hated life for that first hour after landing.. it was really long, and I was so tired. But then we got into the cab.
My Ticket and The Underground line :)
Oh my goodness.. all the way there we were just so amazed at how ancient the buildings are. The cab explained to us the difference between buildings built during Queen Anne, and King George… and when we finally made it to the place we are staying. We walked in to the middle of the “welcome here” meeting. Kristina had talked to me before hand, so when I saw her she was like… “LESSLIEEEE PLEASE HAVE STORY TIME”. And I was like “No.. its not that good. And Eugene has stuff to talk about :)” But then EVERYONE was like “no seriously.. this sounds funny…” hahaha. So no joke I spent 10 minutes explaining how my plane broke down, and how the airline gave a bag of alcohol for no apparent reason (So now they keep calling me alch-y, even though it was in no way my fault.) I like how these people still think im amusing (I wonder how long that will last. lol) During the meeting someone also said “when in Rome” and I went “no no.. that doesn’t really apply” and no one knew what I was talking about (hahaha Sara)
Anyway, we went out for a birthday/first night in Europe party last night.. which basically consisted of us all sitting on a couch in a cafe and half falling asleep. But it was good to get out and get to know each other a little. Then I took a real bath. In a real “bath room” cause thats how it works here, haha. It was a very good and eventful first night however. We had a terrific time and I was able to get some good sleep.
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K. So I went to go to sleep last night when I realized I had to be up at 830 and didn’t have any sort of alarm clock. I SOME how managed to wake myself up at 815… super impressed with myself… But then we went to church at Westminster Abby, which is the main church of the Anglican Church of England. It was amazing… I couldn’t take any pictures inside but I have some of the outside. I was there first as a worshipper and second as an artist. There was so much to take it, it was a sung Eucharist service with full choir. And the Hummel was about the body of Christ and all of its parts, and how as a church we cannot exist without any part. I don’t know, it was pretty amazing to be at the center of the church of England, when I’m struggling so much to decide what I think about the politics of religion.
The Architecture is over a thousand years old… everything is incredible. The stain glass, the stone arches, the engravings in the walls and ceilings and the post modern sculptures. It was amazing. And while Im taking this all in I was thinking “How on earth would they get birds out of here.” – a clue to how tired I am. lol.
Afterwards, we got to look around a little and were able to see the graves of Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, as they are just a few of the many who are buried there. Also Franklin D Roosevelt is the only American leader with a memorial there. Then we seriously like RAN around the blocks to see Para lament, the Prime Ministers Estate, and Big Ben. I literally took ALL of my pictures while walking cause we were in such a hurry. We will be able to go back though.. we had to make it back though for a meeting.
Libby in the blue lounge of our house.
Check out Eugene and Gallean in the mirror… Amazing.
Walking to churrchhhh…
Love her…
This Picture is going to be amazing.. she was precious… just needs a little editing.
He was SOOO thrilled to be awake.
All Westminster Abby. (Pictures were not allowed inside.)
We sorta love each other… Her boyfriend doesn’t really mind :D
The Above – Parliament
Big Ben and the London Eye behind :)
Well Ello there Benny Boy :)
Phooooonneee Boooooth
Housessss…
Thee Primee Ministers Estate.
THEN we went to the “younger” area of London. Thrift stores, cafe's clubs and pubs. We looked around and got some dinner, which tonight was pizza because it was cheap :D By the way… European money is waaaayyyy coooler than ours.. I love pounds :D
And in the middle of all of this, I accidently poked Jeff in the eye. (i was trying to pound his fist… he moved.. I jokingly swatting at him.. I missed. I mean… you know the normal) BUTT.. Andrew and Evan FREAKED out and were like “Omg! Jeff was that your bad eye?” So I start freaking out.. and Jeff goes… “No its ok.. It was my good eye… WHICH SUCKS! Cause the other one was glass! Why didn’t you aim for my left eye!!”
So we are all dying laughing, and OBVEOUSLY this is a joke… so later he is picking on me and I go “Yeah? How’s your glass eye doing…”
Andrew and Evan both look at me weird and were like “well thats a little too far”
So…. Jeff goes into this massive story about how when he was 3 he had pink eye and grabbed super glue instead of his eye drops. I was seriously like crying for an hour, I felt sooo bad. He was laughing his head off and said he doesn’t remember any of it, and that its fine.
But during all this Evan and Andrew are laughing there heads off.. I mean.. it was funny.. And then later Kristina was laughing at me like “oh come on, don’t listen to them” So basically.. I HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER JEFF HAS TWO REAL EYES OR NOT! Its bugging me…
So we JUST got back, again, from another really long day and I need to take a bath and go to bed. We have class in one of the guys rooms because we are “a classroom without walls” lol. 830 am tomorrow.
Its just Art History, Literature and Poetry until we get to Paris. :D
I've seen and done so much already.. I cant believe it will be like this for 3 months… Im going to need to start drinking more coffee. lol.
LOVE YOU ALLL.
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