London!

After visiting London from the 17th-21st of October, I've decided that I absolutely want to live there someday!  I got into the airport at about 9:45 and after being hassled for about ten minutes by the customs department, met up with my friend Courtney in the airport!  Since she hasn't found a permanent place yet, we booked a hostel that night, which was really gross.  It ended up being 80 dollars though, despite being the grossest accomodations I've ever experienced in my life! However, since we were just sleeping there (I was sooo tired from traveling) it was perfectly fine.  

The next morning, we booked a much nicer hostel and started all of the sightseeing!  The first thing we did was go to the London Dungeon, which is basically a huge haunted house that takes about an hour and a half to walk through.  A bunch of actors were dressed up and walked around scaring people as you looked at the exhibits, which kept maki

ng me really nervous, so they definitely did their job well.  The best part about the whole thing was probably the ride at the end, where you are buckled in and you do a little free fall.  The picture of us on the ride is pretty funny.

My favorite visit of the trip, though, was probably Madame Toussaud's, which is the wax museum!  Each of the respective rooms were set up to accommodate the different wax characters.  For example, in the first room there were tons of celebrities that you could take pictures with while walking around on a red carpet.  There were other rooms that contained different sports figures or political leaders.  We took so many pictures with all of the wax people because they were so realistic.

Besides these two museums, we also did lots of other fun things everyday, such as meet up with some of Courtney's friends from culinary school for a big Chinese brunch; visit places such as Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and the London Bridge; and even rode the London Eye!  The various meals we had, though expensive, were absolutely amazing and totally worth the price.  I would like to personally discredit the stereotype that all food in England is bad!  I was especially excited to try out the Indian food, which was very impressive.

I was sad to leave London on the 21st since I was getting used to where everything was in London and taking the metro all over the place.  However, I know I'll be back someday soon since I loved everything about the city, especially the British accents!!