Friday June 5, 2009

The first thing that we did in the morning was take the tube way far away to try to buy half-priced broadway tickets to Wicked, but when we got their our tickets did not work because it was out of the zones that we paid for, so we left.  We never ended up buying tickets, boo.  If the exchange rate wasn't so bad for us they would have been really cheap (40 pounds) but with the exchange rate they become expensive.  After that excursion we went to the British Library to see the Magna Carta, Shakespeare's handwriting, the Gutenberg Bible and other hand-written pieces such as Mozart's concertos, etc...  For lunch we ate paninis at guess what type of restaurant... Italian....again.  We then went to the Wellcome Collection which is a collection of old medical tools that were used and now look really primitive.  It was interesting.  Then we took the Underground to Big Ben and when I came up from below all I could see was the Parliament buildings which are impressive, but then I looked up and there was Big Ben - its huge!  We saw the London Eye & Westminster Abbey then road the really crowded tube to Covent Garden.  Convent Garden reminded me of Dublin with its cobblestone streets and expensive stores.  People give out like flyers all the time and Phil always takes them and then there are NO trashcans anywhere.  We would carry around trash for at least an hour and it is the only time I have ever considered littering because its so annoying.  So I mentioned this to Hadden and he said that they don't have trashcans in London and Belfast because they have had problems with terrorist activities leaving bombs in the trashcans... ah ha! Still its annoying.  Anyways, Phil took more flyers from Bobo, the guy told us his name, for Los Locos Mexican Restaurant.  We ate there and bought two meals with our buy one get one free coupon and ate really cheap.  So the coupons do occasionally come in handy.  In Covent Garden there was a street performer who juggled knives on a ten foot tall unicycle, and then juggled chain-saws.  He was quite entertaining as he did all of this in tiny pink shorts.  Later that evening Kelsey and I got carrot cake and mochas at a small cafe near our hotel while the boys walked around.  It was yum-o.