Three days in London!

Day 1 Monday, June 27th
I woke up early and walked Paige and Logan to their school which was about 5 min from their flat. They live in the Camden area, more specifically Bloomsbury and Russell Square. I got a coffee and went down to the newest Tube station to buy a pass. I got on the Picadilly line, not really going anywhere in particular. I wanted to do one of those red double-decker bus tours, soI got off at Hyde Park Corner thinking that's where I could buy a ticket. I ended up wandering through Green park and came across Buckingham Palace! After walking around there, I heard some drums pomp and circumstance close by, so I walked over the the guard museum across the way from St. James park and saw a mini changing of the guards ceremony. I then walked down birdcage way to find Westminster Abby. I wanted to go in, but the line was too long. After that I walked over to parliament and Big Ben and saw the London eye from the Westminster bridge. I strolled along the Thames and turned into a street which happened o be the Ministry of Defense. Then I saw the Texas Embassy (the restaurant) and came to Trafalgar Square! I knew that admission to british museums were free, contrastingly to Italian sites where you have to pay to enter even a church. So I went into the National Gallery! I loved seeing all the paintings and recognized a lot from my art history class from high school as well as time in Florence! Some things I saw were: Bathers at Asnieres by Seurat, Wheat fields with Cypresses by Van Gough, two ballerina paintings by Degas, Ariadne and Bacchus and Portrait of a Youth by Titian, The water lily pond by Monet and much more by Pissaro, Hogarth, and Turner. After that I met Logan and Paige in front of the apartment and we went to this little cafe in a park right by their flat. After that we went back and got ready because we were going to tea at the Waldorf! The girls still were in school and had a final project left and their topic was tea time, so I got to go on their research trip with them! And I'm so glad I did! I had Earl grey, sparkling rose, several assorted sandwiches, scones with jelly, and lots of strawberry desserts! It was awesome! After that we went to the girls school because they needed to go to their teachers office hours, so I used Logans student ID to go into the computer lab and use the Internet. It worked and they didn't discover mu bluff! That night Scarlette Barrow and Zach Moorman invited us to dinner at Babylon at the chic Roof Gardens in Kensington. We had a great time catching up, remembering  funny stories from high school, and just enjoying where we were! Zach graciously picked up the tab, it was so sweet and a really fun night.