Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Girl Trip day Three

It’s the last and final day of the girls and I being in London. London is fabulous I feel as though I am actually in the U.S. someplace, maybe on the east coast somewhere in a mix between Boston and New York. It’s strange to hear English as the common language, be able to read sign postings, and see T.G.I.Fridays as an option for a restaurant. Anyways I digress because today is the DAY! It’s B-Day! Britney! Britney! Britney! Me and the ladies couldn’t be any more excited. But before the big event there are still some sights to see in good ol’ London. Let’s go!

It's raining it's pouring, the girls are out touring.



Our first stop "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down" or as Fergie would say, "How come every time you come around my London London bridge wanna go down like London London wanna go down."





Regardless what song gets stuck in your head as you walk acorss this bridge- you quickly realize this bridge is nothing to really sing about. It's quite famous- but quite plain, basically the bridge is a bunch of cement blocks. Especially when compared to the next bridge down that is adorned is life and decor. The Tower Bridge is beautiful and the one that people should be singing songs about.





After checking out the London Bridge and the Tower Bridge we headed to probably my favoirte site in London- The London Tower. This place was super cool- It felt like you were walking in history and in a distinguished place. The London tower held many purposes- the first being a royal palace, Oh la la. It also served the purpose of being a fortress of protection, watching for those who were preparing to attach Britian. Many of the walls in the Tower of London range between 11-15 feet thick. The London Tower is also where they kept prisioners who were commiting treason against the King. And last but not least, this is where people would be tourtured or even more grotesque, beheaded. "OFF WITH THEIR HEAD!"

This first picture is of the outside of the London tower. On the walls you can see small slits that look like crosses- those were the only holes that would provide light to the prisoners held within the walls. In this fortress there are a total of twenty towers each served a different purpose and hold fascinating stories.



This is the entrance to the the Towers, at the top of these arches are metal spikes that weigh one ton and would be released to capture intruders or others trying to escape. We had to run through quickly so they wouldn't capture us cause they know was can get a bit crazy.



If you go to the Tower of London you have to take a tour by a Beefeater. This is the best tour I have ever been on. It was funny, fast paced and every informative. Our guide had our group laughing through the entire hour tour.

Most people who were beheaded were done outside the tower walls where all of the public could come and see. But beheaded royalty were finished off here.



The coolest and prettiest place to see in the London Tower lies behind these walls. Inside are kept all the royal jewels, crowns, and diamonds!!! This is why the ladies come and see the Tower of London.





After checking out the history of London it was time for an ancient feast of British Pie! This meal totally hit the spot. Warm, filling, and delicious- what more could you ask for.



After a day of walking around in the rain and taking in a ton of history we are pretty wiped out. But it's time for our next adventure so we grabed a coffee and got on the train and enjoyed the relaxing ride. ahhhh



Our next stop... The Circus Baby!





After playing around in the entrance way of the circus we headed inside where the show was about to start. We took our seats and watched the opening circus act.







And then prepared for the Main event!



As Perez came on- we knew Brit was next rose to our feets and prepared to have the night of all nights and ready to have to all out fun.



These two beautiful people were our seat/dance partners for the Britney concert. They were so much fun and might have loved the show even more than me- and I am not sure if that is actually possible. My favorite thing about this picture is litterally one second before the shot was taken they were dancing like crazy and some how they were able to perfectly pose themselves for this shot. And then immediatly went back to crazy dance mode.



We danced, danced, danced and sang our way through the entire 90 minute Britey show loving every minute. Once the show was over we had to head back to the hostel to pack because we needed to leave at 4:00 a.m. to catch our plane back to Paris.

We landed in Paris and headed straight to the Seine to end our trip on a sunny, relaxing note. Ahh Paris how we love you.



Thanks girls to the best trip to London a gril could ask for. I am so glad you were able to come I had so much fun. We'll have to do it again sometime. Love you!

4 comments:

Suzann said...

Wow! What a busy adventure.
Popping in from SITS to wish you a good morning.

Ana Laura E said...

Love your blog!!! Looking forward to read it!!! I found it at SITS

Jennifer said...

I'M SO JEALOUS! Oh man, I never had a desire to go to Europe in college but now i wish I had! London looks like a beautiful place! So cute that you brought your friends along!

I just found you through SITS :)

Unknown said...

Aww I love it, thanks for bringing us along! My favorite part of this one was that you actually had the girls on stilts hold our pics ha ha ha that was too cute!