London-Friday

We have arrived safely back in Cork after a very busy weekend in London.  We had a jammed packed weekend and saw everything that we wanted to and then some!  When we arrived in London on Thursday night and it was snowing.  This was something I was definitely not expecting to see!  London was like 10-15 degrees colder than Ireland so I am sure glad that I bought a coat and scarf before I went!  Meghan and I became Tube masters this weekend and had no problem finding our way around London.  

While my friend Hannah was at her internship on Friday, Meghan and I probably walked like 20 miles going around to as many sites as we could!  Hannah was able to tell us which Tube stops to get off at for each place which allowed us to move around a lot quicker and find things faster.  It also helped that everything was so close together.  As you will see, I went camera crazy in London.  Here are some pictures of Friday's activities!

Phone booth and Big Ben:

Parliament:

Westminster Abbey:

The London Eye, and yes we rode it!

We then met Hannah during her Lunch break in Chinatown for an all you can eat buffet, yum!

After lunch we went in search of Buckingham Palace.

We ran into this guard on a horse near the entrance of Sr. James' Park which leads to Buckingham Palace.  Meghan and I believe that he overheard me telling Meghan that he was cute.  If you look closely in the picture he is smirking.  Yes, we made him smile for quite a bit of time which we thought was impossible!!  We feel pretty accomplished. 

Heading back to the palace after changing of the guard:

Buckingham Palace and Queen Elizabeth's Memorial:

The Summer 2012 Olympics aren't in the heart of London.  It was too far to go visit the site of the games but we found a countdown!

We were so tired and our feet hurt so bad when we made it back to Hannah's flat that night.  However it didn't stop us from going out on the town with some of the girls on Hannah's program.  We went to a pub called Monarch in an area called Camden.