London Bridge is Falling Down

Day 2

8:45am. Walk over to the AIFS office for our orientation. I find out that my internship interview isn’t until next week because the producers of the company are at the Cannes Film Festival. I’m not complaining. We grab some lunch and get on a tour bus for a brief tour of London with brief stops at Buckingham Palace and St. Paul’s Cathedral.

On the Corner by St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey

Pretty excited about Buckingham Palace. The Queen was actually inside one of the over 600 rooms.

I had my picture taken at the phone booth they walk past in The Da Vinci Code. Clearly, now I am automatically famous.

Our tour guide’s name is Shaun. And he is pretty awesome and Scottish, and rather hilarious. After this, we travel across London Bridge and Tower Bridge and who knows what other bridge, and end up at the Tower of London.

Some really awesome looking catapult thing at the Tower.

I would like to point out that at this point it is very cold. And windy. But we got a pretty good tour of the grounds, saw where Anne Boelyn was beheaded, looked at the Crown Jewels…very fancy indeed, learned about the two princes who were murdered in the Bloody Tower, and saw Henry VIII’s armour with the giant…cup shall we call it? Henry was very insecure about his own manhood.

Little glass pillow memorial for all the nobility who were killed here. Henry's cup picture to come.

We end the evening with another pub and a delicious burger (I’m hoping for not Mad Cow…) and a first exciting trip on the tube, which is my new favorite mode of transportation.

Pretty kickin' picture I took at the Fulham Broadway Station.

There are signs every ten feet for easily confused people like me, and I just get it. Also, there are fascinating people to be found on the tube. On a side note, the calmness of the tube’s loudspeaker is rather unsettling. The other day, the lady on the loudspeaker kept saying “Due to there being a person UNDER THE TRAIN, the Central line is not running.” A person UNDER THE TRAIN. Then it happened again two days later. Apparently this is a normal occurrence in London. Nicole told me, “That person clearly did not mind the gap.” They always say that as well. Mind the Gap, so people don’t get stuck in the gap between the platform and the train. Erin wanted to know why they didn’t just fix the damn gap. Good question.

LONDON, WHAT?

Dear, London. Weeds are not a building material. WHAT?