londres, dia 2.

Day 2...
We got up pretty early the second day.  Its hard to sleep in a hostel in the morning because everyone's alarms are going off and people are getting up and showering and going to the bathroom and kids outside yelling and so on and so forth.  (and after all that noise, some girl yelled at me and Amber because we were talking quietly about our plans for the day)  We ate some nasty Spanish granola bars for breakfast...but they were enough to tie us over for awhile...and headed out for the day.  Our first stop was the London eye, the giant ferris wheel type thing.  It wasn't too far away from our hostel, just one bus trip. It was pretty cool and gave an awesome view of the city, but I don't like heights or enclosed places that I'm trapped in...so it was a little nerve racking for me.

the london eye

Amber thought it'd be fun to take a picture of me stressing.

almost to the top!

Big Ben and Parliament buildings

all better now :)

After the eye, we headed to Madam Tousaads (or something like that) wax museum.  I originally wasn't that excited to see it, but it turned out to be really cool!  The place is huge and has like 6 floors and each area has a different theme, like all the "A-listers" then people dressed as famous characters, music, sports, historic figures, a little ride that took you through a history of London, and a little haunted house type area.  The haunted house part was pretty cool, you walk through this area and people jump out at you and there's really neat lights and affects and stuff.  Ooo and the figures are creepily life like.

Harry Potter!

ohh Leo...

Being a BA with the terminator.

as close as we could get to Captain Jack Sparrow...he was being swarmed.  (Everything was, there were wayyyy too many people there!)

John Wayne.  (being BA again)

Miss. Hepburn.

he may be married now, but I can still get a picture!

he however...is cuter, and not married.

Beatles!!!  (more on them later!)

Obama...and

Hitler, in the same room.

After the wax museum we were starving!  We found this delicious place to eat randomly.  I'm not exactly sure what kind of food it was because I'm not very worldly, but I'd say its some sort of Middle Eastern type food.  We got a hugeeeeee meal for a decent price.  Had an appetizer with pita bread....and more pita bread, our main course, then dessert.

Amber's humus (just her appetizer)

my mixed appetizer in the background with our bread.  No idea what all my little blobs of sauce were, but they were amazing!!

amber's salad.

my chicken and rice.  The chicken had some sort of somthing in the middle.  very good.

CHEESECAKE!!

After we finished stuffing our faces (it was probably the most full I have EVER been) we set off to find Abbey road and Abbey road studios,  both me and Amber are big Beatle's fans.  We weren't really sure how to get there or what bus to take (Did I mention that we managed to be in London for 4 days and never got a real map, only a bus map or a underground map?...wait, I think the last day we had something that was a real map, however this day, we only had the very vague bus map).  We wondered forever and asked directions a million times and eventually got going the right way and made it there.  It was a long walk but totally worth it!!

new album cover?

unfortunately, we did not bring a marker with us to add to the wall!

that's a peace sign, not a middle finger.

abbey road studios, bad picture because its under construction.

aww not our work, but so true!!  miss our old pals here!

rocking out to some Beatles of course!

another attempt.  I don't think those trying to drive down the road appreciate the number of people trying to recreate the album cover.

After all the walking and everything we'd done we were very ready to get back to our hostel.  I'm pretty sure that this is the day that it took us about 5 different buses to get home.  There was some sort of big event going on (which seems to be a common theme for me whenever I visit anywhere) and all the buses were being rerouted and not going where they were supposed to go, so we kept getting dropped at random places and had to find another bus stop to get us close to where we wanted to be.  It was quite an adventure.  Luckily, with the visitor Oyster card (the bus passes we bought) it stops charging after a certain point (I think its like 4 pounds a day or something like that) otherwise we would have run out of bus money very fast!!  

After a long day of walking, touring, and figuring out buses, we headed to the pub across the street from our hostel to relax.

the beer we had here was the best beer i've ever had and it wasn't even cold.  anyone know if Sundance  exists in the states?

Another busy day in London!  Again we headed to bed early because we had another big day on Sunday.

Love you all!!