London Day 1

We finally arrived in London at the Queens Park Hotel, not the Ritz Carlton but then again, I've spent 11 straight days in a tent, I can handle no AC, but some people just can't I guess. Anyway we got the gang together and went out to explore London. This was my 3rd time being in London so I pretty much knew the Underground, or the Tube like the back of my hand, but it never hurts to look at the map again and again. We went to Westminster and walked by Big Ben just in time to hear him ring in the hour of 5pm. More protestors were outside the Houses of Parliment protesting some unfair treatment of the people in Sri Lanka. I never knew there was a problem down there, go figure in my American bubble, but I like it in there! We walked through Green park following this card or 2 mile walks that Cory had got from Barnes and Noble back home, very cool walk that took us behind 10 Downing Street, no we didn't see Gordon Brown. We walked up through the park, saw Buckingham Palace and the Queen was in residence because the flag was flying, thats how you know! After that we went bakc to the hotel and chilled until we had to go meet the Barnetts for a nice Mexican dinner at a place called Pacifico where the men shared a bucket of Coronas and the ladies had Sangria, very delicious!