Rainy, Rainy London

Okay, so I didn't take too many pictures today, so it'll be easier for me to tell you about what went on without feeling bad about not being able to put my pictures in.

We had a ridiculously busy day. We started off by going to the Tower of London, which I wasn't all that excited about, but it ended up being very cool...I went into a church that had 6 saints buried in it! That's craziness. And we got to see the crown jewels, which were actually pretty awesome. After that we went to Subway (!!!!) and Ben & Jerry's (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) for lunch, which was a pretty sweet deal. We had to walk for a bit afterwards, because the tube station we took to get to the Tower of London was closed, but we ended up in the area of London where the Globe Theatre and TATE Modern are...now I'm personally not all that interested in theatre, and Brittany's not all that into modern art, so we split up. I am SO GLAD I got to go into that art gallery...while I didn't really understand half of the things I saw, I'm glad to have seen them.

Afterwards, we went on a Jack the Ripper tour. This talked about his victims, potential suspects, and the investigation surrounding it. It was put on by the same group of people that conducted our tour of the Tower of London, the Yeoman Warders...I guess it's basically their job to live for the history of London, so you can imagine the tour was nothing short of fantastic. It was sort of creepy, because two of the murders happened 120 years ago TO THE DAY. Shiver. Also, there was one girl he murdered that apparently looked a lot like me, so every time my guide would talk about her he'd gesture in my direction, which was fine until I found out that he basically chopped this girl into wee bits and filleted off her face...they identified her body by her blue eyes and blond hair...shiver. But overall the tour was very interesting, despite the rain. Then we got steak and potatoes!

We're heading off to Germany in a couple hours...our airport shuttle is picking us up at 3:15AM, so I'm not entirely sure when we'll be sleeping. Oh well! Only live once, right?

Oh and one more thing! It is entirely possible to plug a French plug into a British outlet. Get a toothpick or something and press down the prong in the bottom part of the outlet (you know how it has 2 on the top and one on the bottom) and then put the French one in. It doesn't fit quite right, but it works. Awesome, right?