St. Pauls is INCREDIBLE! we had a guided tour through the whole building and learned about who the monuments are about like Cornwallis and Nelson, and learned a bit of the history like the fire ad rebuilding process by christopher Wren etc. It's gigangtic. and it's it's beautiful! we hiked the 500+ stairs to the top of the dome and the view is amazing. you can see all of london and what a cool city. 4realz. the architecture and all the history which we then learned more about at the london museum. this was by far my least favorite museum yet - compared to any of the others it was just kinda lame. some good stuff, but i kept waiting for the "good stuff" that never really came...
so that was all on a big field trip with the whole group. but then i went out with my roommates and got tickets to see les mis on sat matinee!!! so excited. i love that show so much. nick jonas is in it - i'm skeptical about that bigtime so he better not ruin the show.
home for dinner - on time i might add - rice adn gravy, rolls and salad. delicious.
then jaqcuie clark and i went to the tower bridge and walked across, found a free concert at the city hall park and listened for a while. then we went and sat on the wall across from the bridge and just wrote in our journals for a while. i'm so far behind. this blog is my only record of my time...
the sunset, the bridge lit up, we walked back across it, and met the nicest security guard who told us the bridge was about to open to make way for a boat! so we saw that, and then talked to the guard some more. and this is the hilarious story that he told - though it might not be as funny not in his wonderful accent
about 10 years ago when clinton was in office, he was working the bridge, and they were supposed to lift it at 1030, but because the boat got there early, and he wanted to go home, he opened it early. little did he know that at that moment president clinton was crossing the bridge with his separate car of secret service men, and the two cars got separated on opposite sides of the bridge when it opened. well then there was a big fuss and he ended up on the front page of the suns paper with a caption that said "diplomatic answers" in an article called "tower bridge splits up convoy"
peopel here are soooo nice and love to talk to you and here about where you're from and what you're doing here and tell you about themselves. i love it.
i also love clark and jacquie. they are so nice. definitely going to be my bffs here. and maybe forever. we didn't really do that much tonight, but it was still one of my favorite nights out in london.
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