Saturday, September 24, 2011

Sore Feet.

Its Saturday night here. Did quite a bit today mostly alot of walking and exploring a bit. My feet are so sore from the past few days and there still much left to do so even more foot pain is in the future. Well today the tour guide took us to see the Shakespeare Globe Theatre which was pretty awesome. Got to see where the old one once stood and where they built the new. Actually got to sit in the threatre and look around but I didnt get to see a play there though. Maybe another time. Then after that actually got to go to a market place an look around, buy tons of fruits and quite a bit of awesome baked goods. :) It was fun just to people watch there. Also did another very nerdy harry potter thing today I walked across the Millennium bridge the one that you see in the beginning of the 6th film. Then after that took a tour of St. Paul's cathedral it was pretty and beautiful but a little to flashy for me. I'm just glad I didn't light up like a roman candle when I walked in. But I did trek to the top of the dome and look out of the London skyline and the view was beautiful. Then took a nice little trip to the modern art museum which was nice like some of it but lot just wasn't my taste. Alot of pictures I'll post later I just haven't downloaded them into the computer yet and still don't have a stable wifi connection yet. So probably in a week or so I'll post pics. :)

Friday, September 23, 2011

Its now Friday afternoon here. So I've been in London for about 3 days. It has been very fun and interesting so far. This tour I'm doing has me going everywhere and anywhere but I can tell you somethings don't change about me for right now I'm sitting in a nice pizza place feeding off there wifi and eating pizza. :)  Went to the British Museum which was amazing but we weren't there to long so I must go back sometime when I get some free time. For we only had alittle less than 2 hours there nowhere near enough time to see anything. But the Rosetta Stone was awesome and many of the Greek artifacts where awesome. Then we got to go through the Houses of Parliament which was interesting it was nice to see the inside of a different countries government and learn alittle bit more about its inner workings. The Tower of London was good didn't see any ghost or anything. Westminster Abbey was amazing love the Gothic architecture sad I couldn't take any pictures inside the abbey. But of course no trip to London would be complete unless you take a trip to Platforms 9 3/4 and take a picture at it. Which I did. I'll have to post the picture later for I don't have the cord for my camera at the moment to upload. One of my favorites I've done so far besides the platform is seeing Wicked yesterday. :) Today so far has been alright went out to Hampton court Palace and so the famous gardens out there and all the rooms on the inside. Later tonight I get to go on the Jack the Ripper Walk so that should be fun.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Day one in London.

Well I arrived in London this morning the flight was alright it was impossible to fall asleep. So I'm still running on the energy from the night before. The tour guide that we have taking us around London is pretty cool. I've met alot of interesting people so far. Rode on the London eye the view was amazing and took a tour through Central London the bus it was interesting, traffic is a killer. Took some awesome pictures today I'll post them later I'm having a terrible time trying to find a good internet connection. Other than that things are going pretty good. More stuff to happen later on this week.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Waiting in the airport.

Alright sitting in Houston airport waiting for my plane to take me to London. :) I realized after my first flight to Houston from Killeen this morning that my least favorite part about flying is the landing. I have no problem with the take off or the actually flying bit but the landing nope don't like it one bit. The amazing thing right now though is that in about 12 hours I'll be in London. I'm still in shock and disbelief that I am going. I don't really know what I feel more excitement or nervousness maybe a big mixture of both. I think all the excitement will hit me once I land over there and everything. I believe I'm about as prepared as I can get for this, so the best thing I can do now is just relax sit back and don't panic and just see how things go. So I'm just going to go with flow and see how things are and just go with it to the best of my abilities.
I'm doing this blog to keep a journal my of experiences over there and to help create a unique way that I can look back on them over time. Also want to do this so my friends and family can see what I have been doing and keep in touch in a way. I'm not entirely sure how many people will follow this and keep up but I guess well just see.
I'm going to try and update this thing maybe every other day, maybe once a week, maybe more it all just depends on whats going on. Also plan on uploading a couple of pics every once in awhile on here and most of them will be going on facebook.
So I guess this is it, it's really happening.  :) I want to say thanks to all my family and friends for ya'lls support. I'm going to miss you all.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Night Before.

Well tomorrow I leave for my study abroad in England. Everything is pretty much packed all I have left are the last few small things that have to go in the book bag and the suitcase but I will being putting that stuff away tomorrow morning. I'm just going to spend the rest of the night working on how to work this blog website. Also double check my list before I head off to bed in a few.  Hopefully I have some time tomorrow while sitting in the airport to blog a little more.