Jour 59- London Day 2

London is an hour behind Paris time. Libby and I did not know this. We were scheduled to meet up with Susie at 12 o'clock after her class was over. We got to Trafalgar Square 20 mins early and sat on a statue waiting for her. 10 mins turned to 30 mins which turned into 45 mins to an hour. Libby and I were so pissed off! We were like, "Where the hell is Susie?!" We texted her at the 30-minute mark and she was like, "I'm just waking up see you soon". We didn't really understand this, because she was already 30 mins late. My phone went out of batts, and Libby forgot hers in the hostel, so we had no way of calling Susie again as time progressed. We just sat there cracking jokes about how we were going to kill Susie. It was funny yet we really wanted to get the day going.

So finally Susie shows up at 12:30 and we are justing giving her the look of death. She's like, "What, I'm not late!" and we are like "Ya you are, by an hour!" She's like, "it's 12:00, you probably didn't change your watches!"

Ya. She was right. And we sure felt like idiots.

Wemforgave Susie anyways haha and then started walking. On our tour, we saw West Minster Abbey again, but didn't go in because it was 15 euros and I didn't care that much to see dead people. We then walked across the Thames River and along it where I snapped various pictures of English people dressed up as Avatar, a headless silver man, an iguana man on a bike, and the Lady with the world's most piercings. The English are weird folk. We then went to the Tate Modern Museum where I discovered they had a painting my Jackson Pollock! I was overly excited because that previous week during school I learned all about him in my Pop Art class and I was so excited to see one of his paintings in real life! Libby and Susie thought I was crazy. They just don't understand!

We next saw Shakespeare's Globe Theatre which really wasn't the real thing because it burned down and then they rebuilt it..soo I didn't get a real history vibe when looking at it. Susie then took us to a market where they got London's famous grilled cheeses. I thought it the cheese smelled like shit, but they sure tasted amazing! After some English guys making fun of us because we didn't know what Turkish Delight was, we headed to St Patrick's Cathedral.

It was beautiful. Just as beautiful as the New Cathedral in St. Louis which is by far my favorite. We decided to climb what I think was over 300 steps to the tippy top of the Cathedral. We got the best views of London. A downside was it was extremely closterphobic and it was a longggggg way down.

At night we got ready and met up with Susie's boyfriend Ray J who surprised who had flown in and surprised her that morning. He slept all day because of jet-lag, but when he woke up, we all got pretty and went to dinner at an Italian restaurant. After dinner and literally stuffing my face, we all went to a pub called O'Neill's in Korea town. It was really cool with three floors. The bottom floor was chill with tables and a bar; second floor was blaring the best music with booths and a bar; and the third floor had a live band! We were on all the floors and had a blast!

Around 2 a.m. Lib and I called it quits and took a cab home. We were so tired from 10 hours of walking, and only had more to do the next day. Tower of London here we come!