Saturday: I arrived at Heathrow around 8:10ish and was finished with customs by 9. Then started the CRAZIEST drive of my life. I hired a driver (so fancy) because taking the tube by myself at night in a foreign city for the first time was not something my mom (or I) really wanted to experience. I got to the London Centre around 9:30, unpacked, got oriented and went to bed.
Sunday: Church today! It took us an HOUR AND FORTY MINUTES to get to church. This was due to a train being down, and us having NO clue as to where to go.. It was great. But I'm in the Crystal Palace ward and it is so great. There are a lot of Africans in our ward, and I'm definitely a minority in my ward. But it's great. I don't have a calling yet, but I'm super excited to get one. We had super gross pea soup for dinner.. It was awesomely awesome. That night we went and walked around Hyde Park. It was great.
The beautiful people in our church group. Michael, Janie, me, Christina, and Annelise.
Monday: we started off bright and early with class. It was fun!!! Haha... not. I got fish 'n'chips for lunch.. It was pretty delicious. After lunch we had a lecture and then went on a walk of our neighborhood. After that, a big group of us went to get gelato. SO GOOD. I'm probably going to gain 10 pounds from gelato alone.. :)
Yummy! Although they didn't give us any sauces.. That would have made it truly delicious.
That picture behind us was made completely from stamps.
Creamy Milkchocolate hazelnut, say what??? SO GOOD. It tasted like nutella, except BETTER. YUM YUM.
In the evening we trooped down to St. Pauls to see the London Symphony Orchestra perform Berlioz Requiem. It was truly beautiful, soothing, calming... yah. Almost fell asleep there. It was an hour and a half. Now, I like classical music as much as the next person, maybe even more so than the next person. But Berlioz is too soothing by far to listen to 2 days after flying from the states and expect to stay awake the whole time. :)
Our whole group at St. Pauls, and the Orchestra inside. I can't wait to go back. It's beautiful.
St. Paul's at night, all lit up. Can you believe this was taken on my phone? Yup. Thank goodness for iphones. After the concert we walked across Millennial Bridge. It looks like this:TUESDAY: We had a free day on tuesday until 4 when we had a lecture, and then off to the Globe for Henry V. So in the morning I did reading (bummer school), and then in the afternoon a group of us went to Picadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, London Eye, and then on a Boat ride down the Thames. It was SO MUCH FUN. We also had the best waffles ever. SO GOOD. Why we don't have waffles like this in the states is a mystery. So delicious.
National Gallery!!!!
Trafalgar Square!
A knitted phone booth. So awesome!!Then in the evening. Henry V. I must say, the actor who played Henry...? SO ATTRACTIVE. Actually, there were many attractive men. It made the aching in my legs more bearable ;)
Yah. SO ATTRACTIVE. MMMM...That was my first FOUR days in London. And I've already done so much, and yet there is still so much to do. Just wait for the second half of the week... It gets better.
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