Day 51!

Well today I got up at 8 dog tired and talked to the stressed out Hostel guy who sold me a tourist map, gave me some breakfast tickets and let my put my bags in a group baggage room temporarily. I then had breakfast which was GREAT! Finally a half decent breakfast!! You had a choise of cereal (cornflakes, cocopopo, rice bubbles, weetbix, whatever) a choise of sausage rolls, hot pastries, hot buns and toast, as well as fruit salad, cheese, jam, and cold meat. THATS MORE LIKE IT!!

I had a good feed then I hung out in the foyer for a bit and read my bible. A bit later when I was checking out some of the noticeboards which had stuff to do on them I noticed some girls kinda pointing at me, and the lady with them said something that I didnt hear so I came over and said beg your pardon. It turns out they were a group of christians (shes a youth worker with YMCA, and they are some girls shes associated with), and the girls had seen me reading my bible and my armband and figured I was christian too. She asked if I would like to go to church with them tomorrow morning. Ive been craving some church like crazy.. so of course I said yeah!! They said sweet as and they would find the place and sort it out tomorrow. Shortly after I wandered down to the tube station and took Laura and Abimbola's advice and bought an Oyster card for 3 euros which pretty much makes all trips half price.

I then caught the tube to Victoria street station. I walked down the road and went into Westminster CATHEDRAL for a while which was a really nice church. It had some big plaques up around the place with the 12 or 13 stages of Jesus's crucifixion which I thinks a catholic thing. it was great tobe in a church an to be able to read something on the walls :D!! It was cold, windy and mainly rainy which was kinda dumb.. but I carried on and walked to Westminster Abbey. This place was very impressive to behole and looked quite similar to the Notre Dame.. Ha ha you can just see the competition there was between France and Britain to be the centre of Europe :) quite funny! Anyway I didnt go inside coz it was 10 pounds for an adult (no student card :( ), and I figured itd be nice inside but not worth 30 bucks.. So thats cool.

Right nextdoor is Big Ben and the big houses of Parliment which were really impressive to behold!! I took some photos and stuff and then went into a games arcade for a while and spent a couple of quid just having a bit of fun and unwinding (and avoiding a heavy shower that came through to disrupt the constant drizzle). After doing that for a while, and winning a really good whinny the pooh toy and giving it to this cute little 3 year old I decided id go to the Imperial War Museum. This had free entrance but was really impressive. Im not a huge war museum person, but this was great! Heaps of things to see and read about, and some cool 'experiences' like the trench experience and blitzkrieg experience. You could see how awful war was.. and could learn heaps aswell and seeing a ton of important wartime artifacts. The first and second world war were covered really well. and there was also a great section on SAS and Secret agencies and agents like MI5 and 6 and stuff. I spent quite a while here, and then thought I might aswell walk home. I had had some little bits of food here and there so I was all good.

I walked up a big long street and soon found myself back at the Thames and started walking along and low and behold I bumped into the globe theater!!! I wanted to go in and check it out but you arent allowed in.. BUT I booked a ticket to go and watch a comedy of errors on tuesday! So thats gonna be amazing! Seeing a Shakespeare in the actual globe theater!! Only 5 quid too! Couldnt believe it!

nearby was this place called the Vinopolis that looked like a great place to go before a show with a date or something. It was a place where you paid entry and then there were a bunch of rooms and galleries and stuff and you can sample cusine and wine from around the world in different simulated settings aswell as enjoy some art and stuff.. looked amazing! I then walked along the Thames and saw a cool poem on some big concrete slabs about when the Thames froze over in a pedestrian tunnel, and the a old sailing ship parked permanently, with some choir singing their 'bumbleeeee bumble beeee bumble BEEEEEEE's which was kinda funny :).

I carried on wandering and poked my head into an old church that had foundations excavated with roman roads and stuff from the first century and old stuff from the 12th and all this.. I was then near the Tower Bridge so took some photos and carried on. Oh! The architecture here is awesome ay! Not only the old stuff, but the modern architecture is totally awesome too! I really like it!! Best ive seen yet. Anyway.. I then kinda aimed in the general direction of the hostel and saw an internet cafe for only 1.50 pound an hour so bought an hour of the owner who was from Jamaca and was IMPOSSIBLE to understand.. their creole is mental man!!! Anyways I wrote one days blog an a group email and then made my way back to the hostel.

On the way I met a German Girl called Katrin from Allgaeu (In Baden Wuettemburg, very near the Neuschwannstein.. awesome!!!). She was really nice and we chatted for a while and walked all the way to the hostel. Here I got my room key finally, had a shower and then went downstairs and met Mandy (the lady I met in the morning). I also met Jessica and Chloe and Katie-Lee and we chatted for ages.. no idea how long. We talked about the Lord and what was important, and what he had taught us, and about our lives so far and it was all really cool!! We chatted until like 10.30 or something. At which Point I went ot my room, said hi to a couple of guys who were there and then headed off to sleep and set my alarm for the next morning.

Nice day but MAN am I tired! I only had 3 and a half hours sleep last night!

Till next time! (almost up to date again :D)