Day 2: Bus tour of London and Betrayal

Today was our first day of class here in London and to start our day off, we took a bus tour with Ingrid our tour guide. We were told that class started at 9:30 so my roommate, Sara, and I set an alarm for 9 to make sure we had plenty of time to get ready. Sara was having problems charging her laptop which was also charging her phone so we were unable to set an alarm, so we settled for the next best thing and went pounding on the doors of our classmates next door so they they could make sure we were awake. Well this morning it turns out we didn't even need the alarm because I woke up at 6 and Sara woke up an hour later (it's really hard to sleep in because the light comes up really early).

Anyway, Ingrid took us to some really cool places in London and showed us around a bit. I took as many pictures as I could while on the bus but I figured that i'd be able to take better ones later on during my trip when I'm walking around and touring the places individually. One of the really cool things she took us to do was to go watch part of the Changing of the Guard. She knew just the right place to take us and we got a really good spot because the procession passed right in front of us and I was able to get some great video.
She showed us some really great things here in London, like the most expensive flats in the world, Harrods, great places to shop along with great attractions to look into doing. She had a lot of great knowledge and i'm really glad that we have her for another tour next week.

Set of Betrayal

After our tour we were let our to go wonder around on our own until the the performance of Betrayal. One of the things we wanted to do was go get wristbands for the Harry Potter Premiere tomorrow but there were so many people there ( I swear like 8,000) and we weren't allowed to skip class to get them so it looks like we may be sneaking in to the premiere tomorrow lol. But on the bright side I do already have my ticket to watch the movie in 3D on July 14th! After we dealt with that Sara and I decided that we wanted to eat so we found this nice little pub just off of Oxford street. I had a steak pie with mashed potatoes which was really good. Sara and I also ordered a pitcher of Primm which was Oh so Delicious! After lunch we met up with Alison our professor and decided to so some shopping on Oxford street. Most of the stores were having 50% sales, so trying to navigate within every store was hectic, especially Primark which was where Sara and I lost Alison and just decided to go our back to our dorms for a bit.

Steet Musicians

By the time we got back to our dorm we only had about an hour before we needed to head back out to go watch our show so we basically just dropped some stuff off and they headed back out. When we met up with the group, Laura handed me my ticket for the show tonight, as well as my Oyster card which allows me to ride the tube and buses around Central London for free while I'm here. We headed over to the Comedy theatre to watch the show. We're not allowed to take pictures during the play so I tried to take one of the set before the show started but it didn't come out as well as I would have liked. After the show Sara and I decided to head back to the dorm and eat some food that we had picked up for the store because eating out in London is a little expensive. On our way back we stopped at this awesome souvenir shop and looked around and we made a plan to come back at the end our trip to buy stuff from there because there was just so much that we wanted. While heading back we saw some street musicians which was really nice.  That's about all for today I think, I'll make sure to post again tomorrow because it's gonna be an awesome day! Oh yeah I added some pictures to the photo album located on the right hand side. Check it out. More  to come