London I have arrived!!!

So I have almost been in London for a full 24 hours and I am really enjoying it. The people are really friendly and helpful and the buildings and architecture are amazing! The only negative is that I didn't bring a hoodie and it gets kinda cool at night especially if it's raining and I found out first hand yesterday. But before I get into that I'll go back and talk about my arrival

So after my family dropped me off at the airport I headed through TSA and kinda nervous that for some strange reason I was going to be detained, but no worries they let me pass. I just wish I could say the same for some poor older man who had to be taken to the back because he failed to let TSA know before he walked through the metal detector that he had had a hip replacement and that was why it was going off and not because he had some type of BOMB( ha ha had to say it now cause I couldn't say it there). Anyway after that I headed to my gate to wait 2 hours until my flight took off. Once everyone had arrived we all started to hang out and were actually dreading going on the plane because we had heard that we were sharing the plane with 36 middle school girls. Once we got on it flight it wasn't so bad. The girls told us that they were a soccer team from RoundRock who were actually heading to Germany to see the world cup ( I was kinda Jealous not gonna lie). Our flight ended up taking off at 9 rather than the 8:30 departure time that we had. The flight was actually really quiet and I tried to sleep as much as a could but i'm sure I only got about an hour's sleep at most. I was kinda surprised that they fed us two meals on the plane. First we ate Chicken curry with white rice and I also got a glass of white wine (which I didn't care too much for) and for Breakfast they gave us a muffin and yogurt. 



War Protest that's been going on for a few years



When we finally arrived in London we had to go through customs which once again I was afraid I would be detained for some reason, but I wasn't. We grabbed our luggage and headed to meet the rest of our group who had left earlier than us. We met with Laura our CIS guide at the airport and waited for our bus to come pick us up. There was a slight miscommunication between the bus driver and Laura and we ended up having to wait like another 2 hours for the bus. Once our bus arrived our driver was kind enough to take us the scenic route to our dorm rooms and showed us a little bit of central London, which was absolutely amazing.  I was even able to see a peaceful war protest going on which was kinda cool. Once we got to our dorm we had about two hours to relax before we headed out to dinner. My roommate and I decided to lay down for a bit and oops we almost missed our group because we couldn't hear our alarm. Once all of the group was downstairs we head off to take the tube to Covent gardens for dinner. The tube was quite and experience. People are constantly getting off and getting on and let's just say you become really close with your neighbors since you're packed on like sardines. Once we arrived we headed to dinner and while there it started to rain. I was a genius and didn't take my backpack which had both my umbrella and poncho in it so I of course got wet. After dinner we were given the rest of the evening to ourselves. Some of us wanted to go tour the area so we headed around and found the local store not too far from our dorms as well as the movie theater and of course I had to buy my Harry Potter tickets. I'm really excited for that since i get to see it in 3D! Yay! Afterwards we went looking for a pub but to no avail since most of them were 21 and up and I was the only one who was able to go it. So we headed back to room and called it a night.