London as seen by Emma

London!! But even more important, English!! You have no idea how nice it is to hear/read/see it again. And ketchup, I can put that on my fries again. Sorry not fries, chips (and chips are crisps, and yards are gardens and pavement a yard. It's all very confusing). 

I interpret this two ways...
1. How nice
2.Too many Americans were hit, so much that they had to give reminders

Big Ben with the London Eye

Anyway, we did A LOT today. Westminster Abbey, Tower of London, London Eye, Cleopatra's Needle, Big Ben (By the way, Big Ben isn't actually the tower or the clock, it's the bell behind the clock in the tower) and 221B Baker Street. But for me the most fascinating thing about it all was the age. Statues and glass in windows from the 1600's. Dating farther back than the American Revolution, making it older than our country. But the funniest thing to me was how they don't care! I've said it before and I'll say it again, things here are older. But the people don't notice...

London has a ton to do. And hours could be spent doing each individual thing. Westminster Abbey, for example, is HUGE. You could spend a year in there, looking at all the details and still not see it all. There are so many graves and statues that I began to feel very watched. And then there's Big Ben. Always staring down at you from somewhere in London, peeking out from some corner or staring you in the face. Big and looming it makes you feel very small. Don't get me wrong, I love London. It is unique from so many other cites. It's old paired side by side with it's new. And so much happening all the time.

 There is always something to do and somewhere to be in London. And always something to see.

221B Baker Street. I think I pull off the deer stalker.

Westminster Abbey, North Door