PEN International- Day trip to London

Today we have an opportunity to see and experience LONDON, on our own, for the day. Together Cassie, Jason Franklin and I joined up with Christine Ong from NTID. Jason A. was with us for the first part of the day but he went to visit his UK friends in the afternoon. We went to King's Cross to see Harry Potter's Platform 9 3/4. It was at the train station and I LOVE trains! It was really exciting for me. I wanted to ride the train there just was not an opportunity to do that. After the train station, we went to St. Paul's Cathedral where Princess Di got married. Next we walked across the millennium bridge to Tate Art Museum. We stopped at Young's restaurant in front of Tate museum looking out over the river. I got a beer called Double Chocolate Stout. It really did taste like chocolate even though it was beer. It was actually pretty good. I also got garlic bread and salad. The food was very good. We walked around to Convent Garden for some shopping then to SoHo for more shopping and chocolate for my friend. We went to the National Gallery and saw a HUGE outdoor screen showing the Olympics. We were in the UK during the Olympics and UK is very much into the Olympics much more than we were. The English had Olympic coverage 24/7 on TV; this was a noticeable difference than America. We went back to the bus station but on the way we freaked out about being late and caught the tube (subway) several times. We got off at Westminster Abbey and saw the House of Parliament and Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. We had to find bathrooms, which is NOT easy to find here! We made it back on the bus. We were one of the first groups to back. We returned to the castle and ordered pizzas. The veggie pizza had corn on it. It is a “regular” veggie for them. We put mushrooms, green peppers, olives, and depended on the place to put more veggies but we did not want corn! Interesting enough, it actually tasted good. Then time for BED!