Hey, Strangers!

So onto the next leg of my adventures: London!

London was really great- I really felt like I needed at least a week in order to do everything I wanted, but seeing as we're complete pros we managed to see a ton of things in the short time while we were there.
The first thing we really did, after sleeping a night in our pretty disgusting hostel while sharing our room with an Australian hairdresser who had been living in that room for six months, was take a free tour of the city. The girl leading the tour was a little overenthusiastic, but it was still a good way to get to know the city! We also saw something we really had never seen in Brussels: the sun.
You know you're living in a weather-beaten city when you go to LONDON for the good weather!
After that, we went to the National Gallery, which takes forever to get through- we were there for more than two hours and I only got through five or six rooms! The audio guide is very thorough.
After that we went to get dinner and walked around Trafalgar Square, which has some beautiful lights of the Picasso exhibit shining on the National Gallery. We were very tired from that long walking tour, and so we went to bed.
The next morning we went to the Portabello Market, which was beautiful even though I couldn't afford anything. Then we went to the British Museum, where I lost track of the time and made us late for getting into Westminster Abbey for the choral services- we ran all the way there, Trent nearly knocking over a baby carriage, but we managed to make it! They didn't let us walk around, though, so we couldn't see the graves, but it was still very beautiful.
The next day, we did the "Milennium Mile" walk that my guidebook told us to do- we saw Towere Bridge, The Tate Modern (which was for the most part pretty cool), the London Eye and the Houses of Parliament- we got some pretty awesome night pictures as well.
After that, it was time to drop our things off at King's Cross and wait there- for 8 hours. Kings' Cross doesn't like to close their doors, and it was freezing- we spent almost all of our time in this coffeeshop buying tea and coffee with the little amount of money we had left, waiting for the terminal to open. But hey, we did go to Platform 9 and 3/4!
The train finally came, and then all we had to do was go to the Committee of the Regions dressed properly to hear a guest lecturer and then sit through an entire day of classes with max 3 hours' sleep under our belt!!

Besos- next I will explain the most wonderful spring break ever!