Funny how everyone told me that the fall is the worst time to go abroad. "It will be rainy and miserable and completely foggy the entire time." Since we arrived, we have seen nothing but sunshine, and 65 degree temperatures. I'm sure I'll regret rubbing this in everyone's faces once the first cloud appears overhead, but until then, London is gorgeous!
Having good weather the past few days has been a complete blessing. A good friend of mine, Sebastian, took Kimmy and I sightseeing the other day. He had told us where to meet him, which meant that we had to figure out how to use this so-called "tube" all by ourselves. In typical Joanna&Kimmy fashion, we made complete spectacles of ourselves trying to figure it out. After holding up a line at a machine to put money on our oyster cards (equivalent to a metrocard) we made it onto the train, and found Sebastian at Picadilly Circus (I love the names of these places!). He took us down to the Thames River where we saw the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abby, the London eye, and good old Big Ben. We walked for ages, and went down a street where there were tons of street performers including a man dressed as Charlie Chaplin who seemed to really like the two of us. After hours of walking around, we headed back home to Queen's Park.
Kimmy and I both decided that we wanted to go back to the center of London again because we didn't see everything the first time around, so yesterday we went back on the tube and went to the London Eye. I have never done well with heights, so I was a bit anxious stepping into a glass capsule that was about to take me 443 feet into the air. Once we got off the ground I was perfectly fine and saw all of London from a completely unique perspective. It's a good thing all you weather pessimists warned us of the fog and rain, because we felt incredibly lucky to be able to see for miles in every direction out of our little Willy Wonka glass elevator.
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