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Well I survived London. I don't think I have ever been to so many Museume in so few days. After I made my last update I walked passed #10 Downing Street where the Priminister lives, then wandered around the outside of Westminster Abbey and sat in a park beside the Parliament Buildings. I was waiting to attend an Organ Recital at the Abbey. The recital was really amazing, I don't think i have ever heard a real pipe organ. We could not look around, but i did get to see Galileo's tomb. I really wish I had time to go back and see the whole church. Four days in London is not enough...but i did know that going there, so it did not bother me too much. Monday I headed back to the theater district to see if I could get 1/2 price tickets to the Queen musical "We Will Rock You" and I did, 15 rows from the front. It did not start until 7:30pm so I spent the day at the National Gallery (on of the most amazing museums ever)then I went over to the Imperial War Museum. I only saw a few floors of it but it was fantastic. It had so much information and so many artifacts. Outside the museum they had these guns that were on battel ships durring WW2 and they also had the shells with it. The shells were 15 inchs in diameter and taller then me, probably about 5'4" in hight. They were HUGE. I would have liked to stay longer but i had to get back to the residence so I could get ready for the play. I got ready and made my way down to the theater. I was early so I went to a nice restarunt beside it and got fish and chips..because i could not leave England without eating fish and chips. They were good, I dont know if they were the best I ever had, but still enjoyable. Very expensive though. It was $20 canadian for that and sparkling mineral water. The play was fantastic. I was told the story was cheese, but I had no idea that it would be that chesey. It seems the writers went "ok, no one is comming to this for the story, so lets just have fun with it" And thats what they did. The music was fantastic and I loved every second of it. Tuesday, my last full day in London, was crazy busy. First I went to the Natural History museum to see the Dinosaurs and the life size model of a blue whale, holy crap that was big. Then I ran next door to the Science museum to see the Space Exhibit (they had the Appolo 10 landing Capsule, very cool) and information about what its like to live on a space station, then i went to the exhibit on flight. They had a repica of the Wright Brothers plane, a cross section of a Boeing 747 (the room it was in was HUGE, there was about 50 planes in the room of al differnt types and sizes). After a quick lunch I headed over to Harrods Department store. I wandered around for about 20 min, the store is beautiful, the arcitecture and decorations are fantastic. You can only last so long in a store that you know you can't afford anything in for so long, I hopped back on the tube and headed over to the HMS Belfast. It is a WW2 battel ship that is now been turned into museum. I thought i would only spend about an hour poking around, I ended up staying three. It was so amazing to see the conditions that people lived in on these things. I also got a really nice view of the Tower Bridge from the deck. By this time I was museumed out went back to the residence, packed and went to bed. The next day I got up headed to Heathrow for the flight home. It was a direct flight so we flew stright north. Since it was light out all the time I got to see some amazing things from the air...like an iceberg, well actually i saw several and they were really cool. We flew over Iceland and the mountains looked like they had been burried up to their tips in snow, it was amazingly beautiful. We landed in Calgary just as a thunder storm hit so they would not let us pull into the terminal utill it passed an hour later. Well thus endeth the adventires in Europe. The overall summation..."a bloody good time" I saw a lot, learned alot and exprience so many new things I never would normaly do at home. I could not ask for better travel buddies then Kris and Zoe, I never had to comprimise once in the 6 weeks we were together and I never once regreted meeting up with them. Well I hope you all enjoyed reading about my adventures, and if you did not, well this is the last update you will be getting so you no longer have to fear them.
Thanks for reading.
ps. Sandy I messed up your email and you missed getting the notice for the post befor this
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