london

we arrived in london on friday. our hostel is great! (google palmer's lodge in london if you're interested in checking it out!) we wandered to primrose park which had a great view of the city and a great place to sit and relax for a little while. saturday we planned to visit my friend emily in bath but the bus got all messed up...pretty much because we missed it thinking it was amendable but that was not the case. i ended up buyin a whole new ticket to get to bath and then it told kelley the bus was full so i ended up going alone. it wasn't a bad trek to make and it was kinda nice to adventure alone. it was so great to see emily and i loved the city of bath. it had great architecture and was preparing for a floral competition so there was flowers everywhere! i would definitely recommend visiting bath if you get the chance but try to stay longer than 3 hours like i had to because of the bus mix up.
sunday we adventured to the national gallery and saw picasso, monet, van goh and so much more! then we went to the british museum and were amazed at the amount of artifacts they have from egypt, greece/italy and asia. we even saw cleopatra's mummy and tomb - how they got there...probably a luting or something (just my assumption). it was really interesting and both were free so that was a plus. OH i even ate fish and chips (i dont normally like fish but i had to while in london).
today we hit all the big tourist sights like big ben, the house of parliment, buckingham palace (waited over an hour for changing of the guards that got RAINED OUT about 5 minutes before...BUMMER)we also saw london bridge which (if we saw the right now) was a disappointment and completely overshadowed by the tower bridge. we did quite a bit of walking and tried to avoid paying too much so we saw the london eye and shakespeare's stage but we didn't want to pay to go in for a looksy so we just took pictures from the outside. london is a great city and too much to do in 4 days (which was more like 2 for me) so i guess i might have to come back.
next off to germany!