weekend in london

sooo our weekend in london was a lot of fun... we left here friday morning at 830ish... we walked to the train station and got on the trains for london! it was fun, and a beautiful ride.. the trains are probably my favorite to ride..

once we got to london we split up into 4 groups and walked around the town of london.. our group got to go to downtown london where the market was and it was kinda scary but it wasnt too bad... we were supposed to explore and take pictures so after about an hour of it we got bored and went to a coffee shop until our time was up.

katie, me, and elise walking around the market

brian and i in front of a veggie stand!

kate and katie relaxing at the coffee shop!

now the real adventure beings, we met back up with all the group and got on the subways to find our hostels... so we get on the underground and head to where we think our hostel is.. we decided to get off at a stop, walk a couple streets and there will be our hostel! if only it were that easy.. haha no. there was a group of about 12 of us that were all staying in the same hostel and we walked around london for about an hour trying to find it. no such luck. we got to see a lot of nice stores, we were in the really nice part of london, it looked like where the parent trap was filmed but we came to that conclusion on our own. we never had luck so we ended up just carrying our backpacks all over london and had to take them to parliament until we were done to take another stab at trying to find our hostel.

elise and i in front of parliament

brie me and elise in front of westminster abbey

big ben and parliament at night

parliament was great... it was a tour of the inside of parliament.. unfortunately i dont have pictures because we weren't allowed to take any inside.. it was magnificent though. after we got done we went back to our hostel and trevor had already found it so he took us straight to it.. by the time we got to our hostel we were exhausted and hungry... so we walk around london trying to find some food that is good but not too expensive. so we are walking and all of our feet are killing us and we are dead tired, our backs were hurting cause we had been carrying our backpacks all day so we decide we will just go to the train station. there is cheap food in there and so we walk into the train station and get mcdonalds. hahaha ya it was quite pathetic. i hadn't had mcdonalds in a very long time cause i dont eat it in the states. so yes, our first meal was mcdonalds in london. it was delicious though. we decide to call it an early night since the next day was full of site seeing and our feet killed. so we just went back to the hostel. we ended up not going to sleep till about 1am but that is another story. it was a long night, and the next morning came earlyyyy.

our first london dinner

not really sure whats going on here..

after dinner we went to the local grocery store and saw this huge leg with hair and the hoof still on it.. it was the topic of discussion for longer then necessary. haha

me and trev in our beds at the hostel. a TINY room.

elise and teal

brie and brian

DAY 2:
the next morning we wake up and get ready to leave the hostel, check out is 10am and trevor had us waking up at 8am.. turns out he was the last one up and we walked downstairs to enjoy some coffee and bread before we embark on our big day.

elise trevor me brie and brian at breakfast.. haha the boys love pictures.

we leave the hostel and head to buckingham palace to watch the changing of the guards. it was saturday morning so there were a lot of people out and the streets were crowded. we saw the changing of the guards and it was cool but we were ready to do something else..(it took awhile for it to get started and it lasted kinda long)

buckingham palace

apparently they're a big deal..

me and brie in front of the palace!!

group shot in front of the statue for queen victoria

after buckingham palace we split up and head to museums... i went to the national art gallery and trafalgar square. trafalgar square is pretty, it has a bunch of statues and a fountain and you can see big ben from the front. we head to the national art gallery and it was beautiful, it housed paintings from Da Vinci, Rembrant, Monet, Van Gouh, Picasso and so many others!

lunch before the museum

at lunch

trafalgar square

big ben at dusk!! coming out of the museum, across trafalgar square, you could see big ben!

the national gallery
once we left we met back up with our group (me, brian, trevor, elise, brie and teal) and headed back to the bus station to head home to oxford. we grabbed some dinner and got on the buses for a 2 hr ride back.. once we got here, we were worn out and it was only 930 so we decided to watch harry potter and relax. it was a lot of fun and it was a good couple days seeing classic london.

for some reason it cuts out the right side of the pictures.. im gonna work on that later.. enjoy!