Nice relaxing morning with a lovely breakfast we’ve paid for at the hotel. I started the day off with about 3 cups of tea. Awesome. Today was a free day, so we could do whatever we wanted. When it has come to free days, I’ve generally just tagged along with everyone else because I don’t really know anything about where I am and would rather just let other people do the talking and planning. Yes, I’m lazy, but I don’t care. I just like to say I’m extremely easygoing. Everyone decided to go to the Tower of London, which I’m sure everyone knows what that is. I had no idea. Basically it was a large palace thing with a bunch of medieval stuff in it. I actually thought it was quite boring. I’m not so interested in history and historical artifacts and all that, but when it comes to Photography that’s a bit of a different story being involved in the medium myself. Maybe if I liked to sword fight and wear knight’s armor and jousted in my spare time I would have appreciated being there a little more. HAH. After we finally left there we decided to check out something we’d seen in add for on a map we have. It was called The London Bridge Experience and London Tombs- definitely sounds like my cup of tea, no pun intended. [little sidenote, a few of us stopped by subway before heading onward because we were hungry. I was quite amused by the fact that I literally ate a subway sandwich ON A SUBWAY!!! Hahahah] First of all to get there we walked across the London Bridge, and as I told my mom on skype, no, it did not fall down. Turns out the London bridge experience was like a history lesson interactive thing that lead into visiting the London Tombs, aka a haunted house. It was just like the ones in downtown KC. I absolutely loved it. We had to walk through the whole thing in a single file line holding the shoulders of the person in front of us. It was so fun. It started off with walking through a dark hall and we kept bumping into things- turns out they had like severed heads and limbs and bodies hanging from everywhere. Absolutely hilarious. It was a fun time, there was one point which I didn’t like so much though actually. One thing that has always even made me a little uneasy in scary movies is if the characters have to squeeze themselves through some tiny little tunnel or something. They actually had a section in this haunted house called ‘the big squeeze’ where there was a long hall lined with these black mats that you literally had to squeeze yourself through. I really didn’t like that. I thought I was going to get stuck and suffocate and die. But I’m alive so it’s okay. Of course the whole tour ended with walking into a room decorated to look like a butcher’s shop, and when we passed a certain point a dark figured reved up a chainsaw and started swinging it at us. It was awesome.
We were all pretty hungry afterwards, well I was. Other people just wanted a drink. So we stopped at a little pub restaurant and ate / people had drinks. I was the odd one out, as usual, everyone had alcoholic drinks while I had tea. Ha. I did also have a delicious asparagus and pea risotto along with my tea. The food in London, like I said, really isn’t so bad after all. Once we were back at the hotel everyone went out to the bars and I was the only one who stayed in, which usually tends to be the case. But in all honesty I like when everyone else goes out—I finally get to have some legitimate time to myself. I treated myself to a few cups of tea, some dry frosted flakes I saved from breakfast, and hung out and watched tv in ENGLISH. It was a nice ending to the day for me, and I was really excited to go to bed for Lacock Abbey the next morning… aka I’m GOIN TO HOGWARTS!!!!!
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