London numero tres! We got up bright and early to go for a ride on the London Eye. For those of you who are not aware of what the London Eye is, it's a huge ferris wheel consisting of many pods that hold around 12 people and it gives amazing views of London. I was very scared to go on this because of my fear of heights (thanks mom), but to my surprise I wasn't bothered one bit. The pods were a lot bigger than expected and we couldn't even feel the ferris wheel go around and we even were there on a windy rainy day. The London Eye gave us some great photo opportunities and I definitely recommend it to anyone going to London. When we got off the London eye we went to the gift shop and I wanted to buy a lot of things for my mom. They had numerous things that had "eyes" on them and since my mom is an optician she is constantly looking for little trinkets that have eyes on them. Since they are going to London themselves I decided against purchasing these things so hopefully she buys them for herself when she goes.
After the London Eye we decided to follow our map that said there was something called the Meijer Chocolate Factory so we wanted to find some delectible chocolate since it's so much better than in the states. We walked probably 2 miles including us getting lost and finally we found it, to our disappointment. When we arrived we realized that this chocolate factory was just a restaurant. Boy was Jacob mad, all he wanted was some chocolate. Hahaha.
We found a place to eat lunch which was called Pizza Express, which must be a chain restaurant because they are all over the UK. They are actually pretty pricey and fancy and not really "express" at all. I would assume the express would refer to fast food but it's a fancy sit down restaurant. We each got our own pizza both of which were around 6 pounds. It was delicious but the pizza in the UK is not the same as pizza in the US. The pizza here is super thin even if you order their "thick" crust and is almost tasteless. I don't think that they season their sauce but it'll do.
After that we walked all the way back to our hostel which was probably a good 3 mile walk. We walked because we were running super low on our tube passes. On our walk we walked by the Tower Bridge and Jacob spotted something out of the corner of his eye that I have never seen before....an Evrard bus. Yes, a bus that said Evrard on it. Never in my life have I ever seen something with my last name on it so I was more than thrilled!
When we arrived back to our hostel we decided to take a short walk to the British History Museum which had free admission. It was huge and we only walked the 3rd floor before getting too tired to walk the whole thing. The 3rd floor consisted of mummies and decaying bodies and was one of the coolest museums I have ever been too. I probably could have spent all day there.
For dinner that night we went to a cute little cafe called The Pancake House. I ordered an apple/cinnamon crepe and Jacob ordered an apple/cinnamon waffle both which were the same price. Jacob also ordered a hot chocolate and his bill came to around 13 pounds. Mine only came to 6. Kind of odd considering the hot chocolate only should've been about 2 pounds. Jacob didn't want to complain so we just sat down and waited for our food. We were the only people in the place so when the waiter brought us some pasty looking thing we figured that that is what we must have been charged extra for. We both tried it and thought it was disgusting and we still to this day don't know what that was. We eventually got our waffle and crepe both of which were amazing, yet the odd thing is that it was called the Pancake House and they didn't have one pancake on their menu. Hmmm.
That night we also stopped by a Gelato shop and oh man is it amazing. I got banana flavored which tasted so much like an actual banana that Jacob and I probably had a discussion about it for 20 minutes. Jacob got a flavor called Stracciatella which is like white chocolate with milk chocolate chips. Pretty good in my opinion and we can't wait to go to Italy for spring break to have real gelato!
The next day it was time to leave. We went to Tesco (similar to Aldi's) and both got a 2 dollar meal deal which consisted of a sandwich, bag of chips, and a water. The meal was pretty good and we'll probably be eating a lot of those. We were waiting for the bus to take us back to Scotland and the bus was 1 1/2 late. I'm kind of mad because in my opinion I should get some sort of refund....my reasoning being that if someone shows up an 1 1/2 late for work, they wouldn't be getting paid for the 1 1/2. So why did we pay him for being late? I don't know, again that's just my organization and punctuality obsession kicking in. The ride home was ridiculously long and we got home 3 hours later than we were supposed to. We got home at 1 am in the morning and had class the next morning so that was not favorable.
Overall we loved London and I would love to live there someday. Jacob loved it to but he would never live in a huge city like that. Tomorrow we leave for Paris, France and we get back early Monday morning so that we don't miss class.
Just a side note I wanted to wish Shawn Peebles a happy birthday (yesterday), my cousin Brock Pleshek a happy birthday today, my Uncle Steve happy birthday tomorrow, my Auntie Karen happy birthday on the 21st, and my cousin Natalie happy birthday on the 24th! :)
Love and miss everyone,
Hayley and Jacob
Jacob and I on the London Eye
View from the London Eye
The group of us on the Eye. :)
The London Eye again
Jacob and Big Ben
Me and Big Ben
Tower Bridge
Real Mummies at the museum
The Evrard bus
Love this picture since the Underground since and Big Ben are both in it
British History Museum
Down in the Underground waiting for the tube
Jacob and I with the London Eye (don't know why this isn't flipped)
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