What a great and beautiful, but exhausting, day here in London! Our free day started off with a trip to Greenwich, which for those of you who are keeping track, is where you find the Prime Meridian, which separates the western hemisphere from the eastern hemisphere. It really was a great day weather wise and the walk up to the observatory was quite nice and none of the kids realized that they walked from one hemisphere to the next until I told them they had. We got some great pictures, one which I will post with this message.
From there we headed to the Tower of London. Another great stop in London, the tower has lots of exhibits, but most of our students went and saw the crown jewels (and some bought fake crowns for themselves), they visited the White Tower (which holds all the medieval weaponry), saw the place where several queens of England lost their head, a snapped a few shots of the ravens and beefeaters.
We ate lunch together at a local pub overlooking the Tower of London, where most of us enjoyed a plate of fish and chips! We stopped for a short visit to the Imperial War Museum and then headed to Piccadilly Circus to do some shopping.
We then took a nice walk (which apparently some of the kids felt was a bit too long and too brisk!) so that we could make it to Evensong services at Westminster Abbey. It was a really amazing feeling sitting in such an old cathedral worshipping with several hundred people and enjoying the sights and mostly sounds of the service. The Westminster boys choir sang most of the service. I added a picture of the kids outside Westminster at the bottom too!
From there we ate dinner and then the group once again broke off into two groups. One group was dropped off at the theatre to see Wicked (which the kids say was awesome!), and the other group headed with Mr. and Mrs. Craig to ride the London Eye. The London Eye is the second largest observation wheel in the world and it gives you a bird’s eye view of the whole city of London. We got on it late enough that the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben were lighting up as we were taking our 40 minute trip around. Some really fantastic sights and pictures.
It is now almost midnight and breakfast is going to be served at 6 am and we need to be on the bus by 6:45 to get to the train station to head to Paris! We have a bus tour (no walking!) tomorrow afternoon in Paris so that should be nice. I think we have wifi at our next hotel, so hopefully I can update you tomorrow night. Also I will use our train ride to have some students write down some thoughts on their trip so far. Otherwise, we keep on moving and enjoying our time! God Bless! Mr. C
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