Day 2 in London started off with an amazing trip to the Natural History Museum; only a 5 minute walk from our hostel. The place was incredible! First, the most beautiful museum I've seen in my life. Second, the only museum I've seen that looks like a ginormous castle. Third, free admission. Fourth, dinosaur exhibit. They actually had real fossils in cases, sometimes even the ground that they found them in. I've never seen anything more amazing! The primary reason I went to this museum was because of Bobby's love for dinosaurs. Of course, I like them too but Bobby had an obsession when we were young. Definitely want to bring him here one day! After the dino exhibit I wandered around and found myself in the minerals exhibit. An awesome decision. I learned about how to harvest diamonds, different gemstones, that trees can absorb a gemstone (opal for example) and then it marbleizes! Coolest thing ever!!! Big Ben and the Westminster Abbey was next on our list. Unfortunately, we couldn't take pictures inside Westminster Abbey but it was really interesting to visit. It's gigantic and has so many different aspects to see. Charles Darwin, Issac Newton, Shakespeare, and A WHOLE BUNCH of kings and queens and others were all buried there. They even had a space dedicated to Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales, which I loved when I read as a senior in high school. There was even a group of choir boys that came into sing, beautifully might I add. Admission into the Abbey came with a free audio tour and when the guy asked me what language I wanted it in I said, "Inglés, por favor." He looked at me so confused until I realized what I had done, while asking me if I wanted French. This isn't the first time that's happened since I landed in London. In fact, I did it a million times. I guess I hadn't switched out of Spanish mode yet! After the Abbey, we rode a double decker bus to Soho for high tea. Unfortunately, the place we wanted to go to was completely booked and we were starving so we ended up in an Italian place. The food was awesome and they had a 2 course lunch for only 10 pounds. I ordered fried Brie with pomegranate, greens and an apple chutney for my appetizer and lemon chicken with couscous for my main dish. They were both awesome! A quick ride on the metro and we were at the London Eye just in time for our 5:30pm tickets. Even though the line was super long, it went by pretty quick and we were on the cart in no time! There were some spectacular views! Even though none of us were hungry from our giant and late lunch, we stopped at a convenience store to grab some ingredients to make dinner. Matt and I (the two foodies) got to work to make a delicious convenience store dinner. We agreed on a veggie stir fry and worked with the very limited ingredients. I felt like we were doing a challenge on a reality TV show. It was really fun and it came out amazing for a convenience store dinner! We made plenty of food for everyone and then some. Those who didn't cook, cleaned. My favorite deal. That whole meal cost us 25 pounds to make, or about 4.25 each. Way better than 10 pounds each! Plus, we had left overs for the next day. We hung out in the dining common area until we were tired and headed to bed.
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Angela Castillo
10/13/2015 05:27:00 pm
Hi Patricia, I'm happy for you, wow beautiful places, enjoy have fun and good luck on your studies, love tia Angela.
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Patricia
10/14/2015 11:07:19 am
Thanks Tia Angela :)
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