Once I was done whining about being sick and got some sleep in me we went out on the town. Stop #1 was the London Eye!
The journey to the London Eye was interesting because it was the first time we got to hop on the tube, London's underground system. We walked from our hotel to Victoria station (we thought this was the closest station to our hotel and came to find out that it definitely was not) upon arriving at Victoria station we were instantly confused.
Turns out: Victoria station is both a tube station and a train station.
Turns out: Occasionally if you don't know what you are doing you can confuse buying a train ticket with a tube ticket.
Turns out: Asking for help is helpful and when a nice English woman brings a huge red "Underground" sign to your attention it is quite evident that you do need to follow it and walk down a million flights of stairs to get to the tube.
Turns out: Traveling is all about fun little learning experiences like Victoria Station.
Turns out: Learning experiences are not that fun when you are still feeling sick and tired and it is snowing big time outside.
Despite all the education taking place, we prevailed! See the following video for Cody's introduction to the lovely London Eye! PS. Sorry for the angle, Cody is super good at video taping himself.
Sorry that this isn't super visible but you will definitely see more of it later. I can't really describe how HUGE this thing is. It made my legs shake just looking at it. Luckily it was being worked on or broken or something so they weren't selling tickets. Thank you Baby Jesus.
Check out this photo, it is horrid quality and light but if you can see the little pods hanging off the edge of the wheel, those are the viewing areas. To give you a scale of the size, each pod holds like twenty people.
Here is a video of the view from the London Eye...super cool!
Blurry but cool photo of Big Ben and the House of Parliament.
After checking out all of this we headed home for an early night. We were tired and freezing and sleep was needed. I think the best thing about this night was that we finally felt like we were in London. I know this blog post isn't super exciting but it was the beginning of it all. Things will definitely pick up from here! If I ever get time to post. Eeshhk homework sucks.
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