London with my mamma :-)

Ciao tutti!
So my mom just left for the airport! (sad) so I am just sitting here in the hotel waiting to go to my next hotel for my next 20 day tour through EF college Breaks. This tour will go from London to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, and Munich. I am super excited but for now I will tell you all (because I know you all care) about my time here in London with my mommy.
We flew in Saturday night and got to our hotel, which is right by Victoria station.
Sunday we got up and went to St. Paul’s cathedral for the Sung Eucharist. It was great to go to church in such a beautiful location. Then we went on a hop-on-hop-off bus tour around London. It was nice because we didn’t really take pictures since we had been here last year, so we could really focus on hearing all the information and enjoying the sites. We didn’t get back to the hotel until 7, so we just stayed in and relaxed.
Monday we got up and were going to go look for this house that my mom read a book about, but the tube was so backed up it took us 1.5 hours just to get to Leister Square where we had to go to get half price theatre tickets. Then we waited 30 min for another hop on bus to come and take us to Kensington palace, but it didn’t tell us where to get off so we ended up having to take the tube anyways. Finally after we got there we toured the palace. Which was interesting. They have this “enchanted palace” theme with stories of princesses who lived there. If you go, make sure you talk to the guides because without them telling you the stories it really isn’t worth it. Then we got back to central London and saw the national portrait gallery, which was great because my mom knows everything about English monarchs so she could tell me cool facts about everyone. Monday night we went to see Sweet Charity. It wasn’t the best musical in the world, but I guess it was entertaining. But it wasn’t Wicked or Billy Eliot for sure. But it was fun.
Tuesday we had all around better luck. We went first to Hampton court where King Henry VIII held court for most of his life. And that was cool; they had a mini demonstration with actors playing Henry VIII and Katharine Parr getting ready for their wedding. Then we saw the beautiful gardens there. We went back to London and saw the British Library again, which has the most amazing stuff. From the Gutenberg Bible, to the Magna Carta, to the original Alice in Wonderland given to Alice to original Shakespeare and even some original Beatles stuff. Quite amazing. Then we went to a movie and saw Prince of Persia, which was fun. Then we just came back to the room and packed and went to bed.
Alright I gotta go, time to start Europe: part 3!
Arrivederci!
~Alyson~
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