Welcome to London Town!

Arriving at Liverpool Street Station in London was like stepping into a Harry Potter Movie. The station was HUGE and everyone was bustling around on the wrong side of the road/walkways. Accents and foreign languages were being flown around the room. We wandered our way to the ticket center and had a nice British fellow assist us in finding our hostel. We immediately made our way to a pub for a good Fish N' Chips and British Stout. After wandering around and finding the famous George's Pub, we called it an early night and went to bed. Starting the next morning, I looked out at breakfast and saw it was snowing... hard. Its almost April, right? What is this blasphemy?! We hiked to the London Eye in the snowy-rain; shivering in line. We got a beautiful view of Big Ben, Parliament, and the Thames River. Afterwards we faced the cold and walked across the Westminster Bridge, and took photos with Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and then walked to the garden in front of Buckingham palace (the name escapes me). We fed the squirrels and had them crawl all over us. We walked to Buckingham Palace, but sadly we missed the Queen. We made our way to get tea and strawberry tarts and watch it snow. We went back to the hostel and ate dinner. The next morning we made our way about and hour out of town to go see the Harry Potter Set Tour. We spent four hours touring the set, taking photos of the costumes, makeup, wigs and anything else we could see. For the four Harry Potter geeks, this was the highlight of our weekend. We made our (long) way back to the airport and took our late night flight home. Stay tuned for stories from Paris, as I leave in 30 minutes!