Our tea Party:)

This blog post is from our adventure on Sunday: May 13, 2012.

                      Part of the Tower of London. The area where the crown jewels are held!

                     The very radical british woman at Speakers Corner. She got in this guys face!

                                                                      Tea at Harrods

                                                               Pinky's out are a must!

                                                             Crystal apples at Harrods

                                                               Item for sale at Harrods.

            Our morning started with riding the tube to the Tower of London. This is my second time being at the tower. The crown jewels are held at the Tower of London they are so big and beautiful but very goody! I looked in many of the different buildings and even listened to a tour guide for a bit. The Tower of London is so interesting and has a rich history. We spent majority of the morning at the tower until the afternoon.

              We then went to Hyde Park to the Speakers Corner Area. Speakers Corner is a place for individuals to come out and express their opinions openly and freely aka get on their soap box and preach! To say this was not interesting would be an understatement the people were so committed to their topic and even at times where down right mean! Especially this older lady we came against that said everyone in the world wishes they were British and since we are not British god is going to send us to hell! Needless to say she was really radical and so where many others. There was a man standing on a ladder saying that the Islam religion is lead by monkeys. It was a definite one of a kind experience that I will never forget those people’s expressions, views or how they would argue with the crowd.

Harrods is the oldest department store in either London or the world. It literally has anything you can think of and stuff you cant even imagine! While we were at Harrods we had afternoon tea! No surprise I was on cloud 9 I was so excited! For me it was like I was at a big tea party only this time…. I was an adult and no longer a child playing in my room with water and crackers. I was eating real mini deserts and real tea I tried breakfast tea. Everything was so delicious it was a one of a kind experience I loved every second of it! After tea we had the opportunity to go around Harrods and looking at different items. Kayla and I found a toddler’s jacket that was 500 pounds (around 800 dollars)!

            After our shopping was finished we then headed to Westminster Abbey for mass! The last time I was in London with the Girl Scouts we went to Westminster Abbey never for a mass so this was pretty cool! It was definitely not a Catholic Mass so I was a little confused by things especially the no kneeling, or communion. It was by far one of my favorite experiences in London thus far! After mass I lit a candle for my family and friends back home. It’s just really cool to know that there is a candle burning in London for all my loved ones back home!

           After mass we met up with the other BSU group that is over here that Dave and Lois’s daughter Julia is on. It was really interesting meeting up with other students from BSU in a foreign country. We had dinner with them in a pub the conversation was light but interesting then at the end of the night we went our separate ways.