London Calling..

I went to London today. I'm alive.. obviously.

There were two bombs found today in London. One was actually found last night outside of a club. It was a car bomb. If it went off, it was expected to harm hundreds of people. The nightclub it was infront of had 1,700 people inside. They diffused the bomb though. It was linked to a terrorist I think.. but I'm not sure. When we were there today we heard all these police cars and ambulances. They shut down the tube and all these streets. It was kind of scary. But I'm okay, so don't worry if you were.

We woke up early this morning and walked to the train station. When we made it into London, we decided to buy one of those open bus tours. It cost 19 pounds! Ah! The first little bit of the tour wasn't so good. We went on the open part. Right as we started going, it started raining. So rain is like hitting us in the face, wind blowing everywhere. So I tried to take pictures, then my camera died. We made it to Hyde Park, and wanted to get off. As I am walking down the stairs, I fell... Hard! I now have a huge purple bruise on my arm and my butt. It was sooo painful. I walked it off though. We first wanted to go to Harrods, but didn't know how to get there. So we asked these two girls how to get there.. and they sent us in the opposite direction. We ended up walking about two miles in Hyde Park on the Diana Memorial walk. It was pretty, but unnecessary.. However, I have seen most of Hyde Park. At this point, the weather got much better! We finally made it to Harrods. It was crazy big and crowded. Everything was sooo pretty and crowded. I want to go back when I am not with a group, so I have more time to just look around. It is like Sacks 5th Ave in NY times 100. It's so crazy. I got some key chains and stuff for people. They're really cute. After Harrods we walked to the bus stop. At that point, they told us that the bus was being sent on a different route because of the bomb scare. So we had to walk all the way back towards Harrods to get on the bus. From there we went a bunch of places. We went to the London Towers, London Bridge, saw the London Eye, Westminster Abby, The Parliament, Big Ben, and Buckingham palace. My favorite was probably Westminster Abby. It was so beautiful. Big Ben wasn't as impressive as I was hoping it would be. I want to go back to the London Towers because I didn't have time to go in and look around. It looks really neat though. Buckingham Palace was really cool. The guards are so funny. They don't move at all! We stared at them for like a long time. Finally, one moved. He switched his gun to the other side, but did it in a such a robotic manner. It was funny. I would hate to have that job. It seems so boring. Another downside about today was that I was hungry most of the day. The girls I was with did not want to eat. I felt bad making them stop, so I just grabbed a muffin. I was starving. ughhh. I don't understand people who don't eat. I need my food, even though it's not so tasty here.

When I got back I wanted to make soup..That didn't work out so well. The can openers here suck. It just poked holes in my can but wouldn't turn. It did not work at all. I ended up ruining the can, but being unable to eat the soup. So I ended up making pasta. It was okay, but probably the best thing I've eaten here so far. How sad. Our upstairs kitchen smells so gross right now. Someone cooked a chicken or something and stunk up the whole place. They were letting it air out and since my room is right next to it, my room is starting to smell gross too. I shut the door. Whoever opens it tomorrow is going to suffocate though. It is really really nasty. I don't know what to do about it.

Tomorrow I think I am going to do some homework and relaxing. I am also probably going to head into town to go to Asda. It's like a Walmart/Target type store. I need to get nail polish remover, bandaids, facewash, cold medicine (I think I'm getting sick), gloves, and maybe another blanket or something. We'll see what I find. I need to start working on my music project. I have to analyze how a band is viewed by the public and media. I think I am going to do Fall Out Boy. I'll let you know how it goes. I am also trying to figure out the details for a possible Ireland trip with Vanessa and Lis. I think that would be really fun, but I need to find out more.

I miss fruits and veggies. I never thought I would say that.. but I need some fresh food. England needs preservatives. I bought bread like 3 days ago, and it's bad already. Not fair! I'm eating dried apricots, but I want the ones from my tree at home. Maybe I'll break down and buy some and eat it all in one day.Then I might not miss fruit at as much. haha.

For now it's getting ready for bed and reading time. I hope you all enjoyed the pictures. Sorry I don't have any from London today, but I'm sure I'll be taking another trip back there.. so I'll have some eventually.