Day 6 & 7- London

Day 6 (July 26)- London

Our last morning in Berlin was hard to say goodbye to the friends we made, but were ready to travel to another destination. Following breakfast of bread and fruit, we headed out to the airport for our flight to London.
After hanging out in the airport for a few hours we boarded our plane. Most of us were still exhausted from our late night goodbyes that we enjoyed our two hour flight that turned into a two hour nap for most. By late afternoon we reached our hotel, after getting our bags, going through customs, and figuring out the change from Euros to Pounds!
Our hotel’s rooms may be small but have plenty of space and we are close to the subway, which makes travel very nice. Once we dropped our stuff off we made our way to a shopping area downtown to do some shopping our first night in London. Some looked at souvenirs, others shopped for clothes, while others just roamed the area taking in a little bit of London. By dinner time most people, including myself, where tired of being on our feet, and our two hour naps began to where off. We scattered for dinner and I found myself eating dinner with three other people at a little Italian place right off the area we were shopping at. It had great food, a lot of laughs, and a realization that we don’t care what time it is we were ready for a good nights sleep.
After dinner it was time to head back to get some much needed sleep, ending our first night in London.

Day 7 (July 27)- London

For breakfast this morning I changed it up with cereal and some bread!
Following breakfast we made our way to the tower of London. This was really cool, we got a tour from the Beefeaters. It was neat to see a lot of the history of London in one morning and just get the chance to see it and walk around.
Lunch was the famous fish and chips at a local vendor, a little greasy but still very delicious.
Our next stop was Big Ben and the buildings around Parliament. Along with a tour of Westminister Abbey. This was very cool to see all the history that this building provided, tombs of past Kings and Queens as well as poets, and Issac Newton can be found to have a tomb there.
Mixed in the buildings of parliament is none other than the Methodist building where we received a tour and got to visit the chapel, sanctuary (where the first United Nations meeting was held, I might add), and then a trip up to the roof where we took some pretty cool pictures of the city of London.
Up next we visited the outside of Buckingham Palace, unfortunately the Queen never came out to see us. But we did end up seeing a guard change, and the beauty of the place.
For dinner we headed downtown and I ate dinner with a few other people eating just simple Chinese but was able to have some great conversations. It has been a great experience to meet others in our Jurisdiction and building those relationships while traveling and doing sightseeing.