London, England (Day 9&10 of traveling)

Today we took a plane to london from amsterdam about 45 minutes.  when we gout to out "hotel" in london, we freshened up and headed into the city.  we walked around saw big ben and parliment, walked through St. James Park, walked to Harrods spent a while in there, then took the bus to Notting Hill and saw a movie there! It was so cool because the movie theater was like a play theater. We saw bad teacher.  After that we took the bus back home!

the next day we got up and took the bus into town.  it came right as we were getting there so we didnt buy a ticket because we were planning on buying an all day pass when we got into town.  So about 20 minutes later the bus pulls over at a stop with about 12 police men there. maggie and i freak out and give the cops a ticket from the day before and they let us go whef!! no fine!! woot woot! So anyway we're walking the rest of the way in town and im just talking london in looking at the sights and what do i see but a Pader Pio gift shop!! (for those of you who are like so? my dad is obsessed with him and he would of loved this!)  So anyway of course we go in and look around big statues of him everywhere.  we start talking to the lady and she takes out this wooden box and shows up one of padres gloves!  then she took us in the basement to the shrine of padre pio and other saints a little creepy but cool at the same time!(pictures below)  so after we left there we headed to the changing of the guards.  pretty cool.  then we went to westminister abbey. so pretty there was a will and kate room too! after that we went to london tower and bridge.  we didnt do the tower because it took 3 hours and it was closing in 45 minutes and we had a show to catch! so we walked the bridge, saw it go up and down and then headed back to Victoria for Billy Elliot!!!!!! SOOO GOOD!! Everyone must see it!  we ran into our friend alex there who studied with us in Italy.  After that we went home, packed and set the alarm for 5:30 to catch our plane back to the homeland!  

It was a phenominal trip and i really wish everyone could experience it!! Thanks for tuning into my blog!! Any questions or comments just leave a comment or email me!! 

Catch ya on the flip side!

Traveler Ellen