London: Day Three

Friday, April 22 was our third day in London. After resting for a while we got out of Hendon and went to the Tate Modern Art Gallery. It took us a little while to get there, which frustrated Jim because he was REALLY excited about the gallery. We let him run ahead while Dave and I walked casually along. We stumbled across Shakespeare's Globe Theater. It was pretty cool. There were signs all over saying: April 23! Happy Birthday William Shakespeare!!! I think they meant to put me on the signs too but there was an error at the printing company or something. Oh well.

Cool SW Trains in Waterloo Station, this is what we'd take to Matt's appt later


The inside of Waterloo Station


View of the riverside from London Brige (not Tower Bridge)

A church on the way to Tate Modern


The entrance to the church

The globe theater


The Tate Modern Museum... a bit washed out in this picture... oops.

The Tate Modern was pretty neat, but of course it was Modern Art so it was more wierd than beautiful. The art of the prozac culture. Whatev.

Millenium Bridge crossing to St. Paul's Cathedral

Millenium Bridge to St. Paul's from the Tate Modern

Walking on Millenium Bridge

The front of St. Paul's


Typical lawns in London... beautiful.

They misspelled my name on these posters, but I appreciated the gesture

The world headquarters of the Salvation Army... pretty neat :)

Jim stayed in the Gallery most of the day. Dave and I (after checking our backpacks in downstairs) decided to go on a walking tour of the area. We went across the Millenium Brige (beautiful) to St. Paul's Cathedral (also amazing). St. Pauls cost 8P to get in. That's 16 bucks. We didn't do it. Westminster Abbey was the same thing, 7.5P, $15. Get real. Maybe when I'm a millionaire.

We explored the area for a while then went back across a different bridge (London Bridge) to get to the south riverbanks where there were a bunch of nice cafes. Dave and I ate at "The Real Greek Kabab" which was EXCELLENT. The waitress there was extraordinarily flirtatous, enjoying our silly American accents and the fact that we didn't know anything about Greek food. The meal was a bit expensive but VERY good, and Dave picked it up as a birthday present to me. Thanks Dave!!!

We went back to Tate Modern to meet Jim. He finally had enough of the art gallery, so we moved on. Jim wanted to see the front end of St. Pauls and stuff too, so we retraced our steps for a bit, then went to meet Matt Josephy. Matt was the Student Body President of A&M a couple years ago, and I knew him a bit because he is best friends with Jake Traylor, my freshman bible study leader. Dave knew him quite well. We met Matt at the Waterloo station and then caught a train to near his appartment. We chilled with them for a bit, then went to this cool Indian Restaurant for dinner. The price wasn't cool, 10P ($20) a person. Ouch. That was AFTER a 20 percent discount for us having a large party. Whatev.

After dinner we went to some people's appartment and hung out for a while. It was a lot of fun. We walked from there back to the nearby tube stop, took the tube one station, then walked to Waterloo, which was a really nice walk and allowed us to take a bunch of pictures of the river and stuff at night.

Tower Bridge!

Walking across Embankment Bridge

Us!!! (Dave, me, Matt, Jim)

The London Eye

Embankment Bridge

Big Ol' Ben

It was pretty cool. The clock struck midnight. It was officially my birthday! We went home and got some much needed sleep, taking us to London: Day Four!