LONDON! Wow what a city! Hustling, bustling, and full of energy. We've been having such a great time here. ON our first day here, we went up from our hotel in Victoria and walked to Buckingham Palace - (the TUBE (subway) workers were on stike so it was either take the bus and sit in traffic- so we walked). There was hardly anyone at Buckingham Palace so we just wondered around and went over to Green Park which is adjacent to the palace. I couldn't think of a better way to fight jet lag. We then ventured to our first pub and got a couple of pints and took in a Rugby game with the locals, which was a ton of fun to experience (they get quite into it).
The next day (thursday) we went on a hop-on-hop-off bus tour and saw the town. We drove by were J.K. Rowling lives when she's in town, as well as a host of other amazing places. We went to the British Museum and saw the Rosetta Stone (not the language learning software), along with a bunch of other world history, which was really cool. Then we took a boat tour on the Thymes over to the Tower of London (which we took a tour of on Friday). We then stopped by a grocery store and picked up stuff for a picnic and we then met up with some friends from Denver, who are also traveling over here, for some more pub action.

Today (Friday) was also a busy day. First we took a walking tour to see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Taking the tour was WAY better than standing there waiting, by ourselves. If we hadn't of takent the tour, we would have only seen about 5 minutes of the action . On the tour, we saw so much more! Then we went over to the Tower of London for our tour. We had the FUNNIEST 'Beefeatter' tour guide in the world. To become a Tour guide at the tower you have to serve 22 years in the military. It is really a privledge and honor to do this job. He was great, yelling at other people to be quiet that were walking by our tour and just making it really fun and enjoyable. Then we went to Westminster Abbey for their Evensong service which was AMAZING (it's £15 each to take the tour of the Abbey but the service at 5 p.m. is free). We heard a great choir sing (which Sarah loved) and we saw where Issac Newton is burried.
It's been a great trip so far, we'll update again soon.
Cheers from London!

p.s. don't forget to mind the gap! (what they always say when getting on/off of the tube)