British Museum and More

This is just a short post of a day with some of the girls from my orientation group and my dear Jesse. We went to the British Museum and saw exhibits from Greece, Rome, Egypt and other displays that had relics from ancient civilizations. This included the Rosetta Stone, which was a lot larger than I thought. Later that day we went on a ferry tour of the Thames River and saw London from a different angle.

Inside the British Museum:

I love having castles in the background of my pictures...That is part of the Tower of London.

This is right over the bridge where the boat docked that took us on our water tour.

This was on top of one of the many double decker bus tours going around London. It was the most embarrassing tourist activity that I participated in but I will admit that it was also one of the best! We saw so much of the city, the tickets were a free part of our school's orientation and my feet weren't killing me afterwards! Along the way there were the many famous monuments but we also saw Margaret Thatcher's Rolls Royce parked outside of her apartment (she was home!), the street that Mama Cass and Jimi Hendrix lived on and places the Beatles visited. We also went by Prince Williams home (yet another castle), the Ritz that serves a cup of tea for 35 pounds ($75) and the Hilton that was supposed to be 33 storeys but was lowered to 28 because the Queen didn't want anyone looking into her backyard...It was great and I think that the background of this photo makes us look cropped in.