Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Crazy Day.

Wow, what a crazy day. First off, we ate breakfast and met up with kelsie. Now a complete traveling tripod, we set off to do a bike tour of London. This went great at first. We saw all the major sites. Half way through, I got a bungee cord stuck in my wheel. I stopped to fix it and Kelsie said something to me about it, so I knew someone saw and was going to tell the group to stop. However, I looked up about a minute later and no one was there. I quickly took off in the direction we had come (we were tracking back our route back to the begining, or so I thought). As I sped along the route, mile after mile, I realized the group had gone another way. I was too far down the route to backtrack. So I sped ahead, hoping I could find my way. Finnally, after retracing the whole route back, I made it to the begining. I couldn't believe I had remembered the whole route through London (thank you visual memory). I made it back and talked to a South African who had lent Kelsie her cell phone to call me (thank you dad for enabling my phone). The group showed up later. I thought about not paying, but the tour guide insisted (which was quite aggravating-seeing that I didn't get to do the last 1/2 of the route.)
The later part of the day was better. We went to Westminister Abby, which is basically a church where Monks live. However, it is also a burial ground for famous English people, from politicians to sports heros to an unknown solider from WWII. It also includes the Poet's Corner, where Dylan Thomas is buried.
From there we went and got lunch.
We then took off and saw Buckingham Palace.
Then, tonite, we went and saw Big Ben in the dark, it was great. We were also going to see the London Eye (the huge ferris wheel), but it was closed (and very expensive I might add).
Anyways, it was a good day. I am quite tired from it. I wish you the best.

1 comment:

Dave Bartholomew said...

Sounds like a great time. It is great you have a good memory for directions!
We are excited for you during this trip, and get great pleasure reading this.
Love and God bless
mom and dad