Busy Day

Hello ALL!
We woke up on time (kind of) to get ready and head toward the Marriott London to meet our tout bus this morning. I had planned the walk to the hotel on mai i Pod though Google maps and it was seriously wrong. we raced up and down the road asking everyone we saw if they knew where the hotel was. Not very helpful when you are half awake and only half the people speak English and half of those people are from around the area. FINALLY we made it (just in time) we had about 10 mins so we decided to order coffee from the lobby restaurant. 1 minute before boarding we were informed that we could not bring beverages on to the bus. I had to shamefully ask the bartender to throw out the coffees he had just made and offered to pay anyway. he let us go without paying... i felt like an asshole



The bus drivers in this town are impressive to say the least. Imagine if you will an area where the average street is only one lane wide, divided into two lanes and there are people parked on the side streets. there are only 90 degree turns available into equally narrow streets, you are driving a bus.



The bus took us to a main terminal where we had about 10 minutes to have a snack and drink something before we had to get on the actual tour bus and see the sights.

not enough time for a coffee...



We took the tour bus to around the area where we are staying and learned a lot about the central area of London. including a brand new Condo building that is a couple of blocks from the area where we are staying. for those who live in a major Canadian City you know that High-end condo's go for like 1 or 2 million bucks. I know this chick owns a condo on Sussex that is a penthouse and is worth like 5 million

Well that crazy wash up has nothing on London. We passed by a new building that is VERY close to Buckingham Palace that has the average cost of £22,000,000 and the penthouse, which is owned by a Saudi Arabian Oil Tycoon is worth £148,000,000

... WTF
anyway we continued our tour and saw a lot of really cool places and learned a lot about the area. we even managed to see the monument from yesterday that we never made it back to...



We enjoyed more touring and looking at the richer area of London and we were soon taken to the entrance to Buckingham Palace...



Jasmine was happy because I found her some coffee...





after we finished the bus tour we had lunch at a place downtown and headed toward the Ripley's believe it or not museum but decided not to go because it was like £30 each to get in so we walked back down to Big Ben...



After the whole downtown fiasco we headed home to unwind a little bit and headed toward the Natural History Museum it was VERY BUSY but once we got in we realized why. This building was built in 1881 when architects gave a shit. It was AMAZING







We went into a number of exhibits however it was way too busy and crowded. the main events were the deep sea exhibit and the dinosaur exhibit. the mineral exhibit was pretty impressive too but there are no pics from that because we were getting VERY tired by then.

Jasmine and I went into the Dino Exhibit expeciting something special because there was a HUGE line up, even when we got in it was just another slow moving line up to see this.. It was kinda cool but not really worth the wait...



All in all it was a REALLY long day and REALLY fun. Tomorrow we are going to the wax museum and going to see a movie probably and have our first dinner OUT. Can't wait. until then KEEP IT UNREAL!