First Few Days in London

Hello everyone! I am absolutely loving London! The flight in was long, and I was absolutely exhausted the first day, but yesterday was much better! On our first day we met our tour guide, Vico. He is really nice. He is Italian so he has a really cool accent! :) We went on a walking tour of London on our first day. I saw Travalgar Square and Picadilly Circus. Picadilly Circus is basically just a square with different shops around it and a big fountain in the middle. There were tons of pigeons flying really close to our heads; it was kind of scary! We had dinner at a little pub and ate fish 'n chips. It was delicious because I had been starving all day! When we got back to the hotel after dinner, we went straight to bed. We were so tired! Yesterday was a lot more fun because I had a lot more energy. We went on a bus tour of London with a different tour guide, Laura. She talked about all the different sites we were seeing, like St. Paul's Cathedral, Big Ben, The London Eye,Buckingham Palace and many more! I can't remember all the names of everything, haha. After that we got out and got to see the very end of the changing of the guard! It was so cool how orderly and formal everything was. I loved their uniforms! I kind of wish I could have taken a picture with them, but we didn't. By this time we were starving, so our group went off and had a picnic in the park. It was absolutely beautiful! It was so nice and relaxing to lay out in the sun. It was interesting using pounds for the first time, but I got the hang of it. We walked around the park a for a little bit and found Vico sleeping! It was really funny because he was absolutely sound asleep he didn't even notice us! (This was a part of the day when we went off on our own with Mrs. Decker and Mrs. Cardona) Then we went to Harrods and shopped around for a little bit. We had dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Afterward a few of us just walked around and ended up at Kensington Park. When I got back I went straight to bed. Well, I will write more later because I have to go eat breakfast now. Talk to you later!
-Claire