Okay, so this is going to be a halloween marathon of updating because i'm tired of being behind and so i'm going to update you to the minute.
So I last left you at Aimee's festivities. The next morning we all convened on St. Paul's Cathedral for the "super tour." That place is massive and it was very cool to go through doors that were locked and what not...it was cool to be like..."yeah thats right, we get to go in here and you don't" to all of the tourists and what not. If you want to know anything about the history of the place, let me know. I got a good dose of it. After an overpriced piece of carrot cake to provide me with energy, stefanie, tasha and I embarked on climbing all the way to the top of the place. Yeah, thats right, if you don't have a problem with vertigo and you're not too wide to fit through the small passages you can climb up to the three galleries which are each higher than the other.
They are:
The Whispering Gallery- Coolest thing ever! You can whisper against the wall and someone on the other end of the massive dome can hear you perfectly. Kicks the butt out of two tin cans and a piece of string. New plan for engagement: I want my future husband to ask me to marry him from across the dome...it'd be cute. Watch i'm sure it will be in some romantic comedy someday. Maybe i'll write it.
up more steps and now outside of the dome is the
Stone Gallery- its at the bottom of the big dome and you get quite the view of London, slightly obscured by cement pillars. BUT! no fear because higher up is the....
Golden Gallery-the top of the dome. You can see the whole city...its crazy! and beautiful. its crazy/beautiful. There was a man up there having to take a breather, turns out he had some heart problems...the steward was quite concerned, but the guy seemed to think there wasn't anything wrong with him...just out of breath.
After St Pauls, Stef and I decided to embark on a journey of procrastination. We didnt want to start studying for our Mid-Term so we decided to do a contact or two. We ended up having lunch at the Anchor pub (its historic...contact 1!), then we found a charming little place called The Clink Prison Museum, apparently its where the leaders of the Mayflower met....today its a museum where they have all sorts of information on torture and what not. Stef and I were the only people there , so we had free reign to take some hilarious pictures. My favorite is the one of stefanie cutting my head off with an axe. Later the director of the museum told us that it was really used in executions....ewww.. anyway contact 2....After that we wandered around the Southbank, finding the original site of the Globe (contact 3!) and then we went to the George Inn, the last galleried coaching inn in London (contact 4) and then the Tabard Inn where Chaucer had his pilgrims set forth to Canterbury from...it was really just a scary little alley way...oh well. i do believe we're up to 5 contacts...we're just that cool. We decided to unwind by drinking ridiculously priced coffee at Starbucks while studying for our test. It was really nice to sit and relax in the big comfortable chairs and the Thames was rough that night so you could hear the waves break and it was like we were on the ocean......splendid!
Back to the flat for more studying and smart sleep!