Waiting in the lobby for breakfast.

I took this picture cuhs I thought Jen would get a kick out of it lolol.

Okay so, rewind a little. When I came downstairs this morning, I saw this really cute guy; he's the one wearing the blue and black checkered shirt. At first I thought he was Italian since our tour guide mentioned that a lot of Italians were currently staying at the hotel, but during breakfast, since he sat near us, I heard the people at his table talking, and they were clearly American. I told Lori, and I was gonna discreetly take a picture of him, but I couldn't do it without being obvious. D:

When we went back to our room --

Me: You know what we should do?
Lori: What?
Me: Go back downstairs and wait for him to come back out, and take a picture of him.
Lori: Hahaha ~
Me: You think I'm kidding but I'm so not. =D

When we were waiting in the lobby for our bus, this woman was talking to some of us, and she said that they were from Davis in Northern California (and we were like "Yay, fellow Californians! 8D"), and they were on a CHA tour too, and I thought 'Oh hey, maybe that guy's part of this tour!' So when we were boarding our bus and the other group was coming out, I totally had my camera ready and everything hahaha. Aaaaaand I'll never see him again LOL.

We had one of the local tour guides taking us around today.

London Bridge!

So, we went to see the changing of the guard, and as we were going over, we saw the horses starting to enter the clearing, and we were like "There they are!" and we all broke into a run, and sprinted over. And as it turns out, they basically just stare at each other for 15 minutes before doing anything. So we were like "... -_-" And we had people (like Lori) recording it too hahaha. So yeah, we just kind of left after 10 minutes.

We saw these guards guarding these houses (I think it was like one of the Prince's house? Or something? Idek.), but there was this rope in front of them, so we couldn't actually go up and take pictures, but after a few minutes they began pacing up and down. Shanese gave Ms. Getchius her camera, and she was gonna take a picture when the guard walked up to us, so right when the guard comes up and Ms. Getchius is about to take the picture, the guard goes and sticks out his tongue! Hahah, they both looked really young (and cute xD;).

We went by bus over to Windsor Castle, but before actually going in, Pioch gave us an hour to get some lunch and look around.

We saw a McDonalds, and Trisha and Loralyn wanted a picture lol. After this, they started taking a picture with a McDonalds in every country hahaha.

There was this asian guy playing the panpipes, and it was really pretty!

We went around looking for somewhere to eat, and finally decided on a place called Pucchino's (Did you know in England Hooter's is a musical instruments store? Hahaha), but it took us wayyy too long, since we ended up only having, like, 30 minutes to order and eat and everything. I ordered the Bruschetta, which was basically this bread with cheese and stuff, and it was actually pretty good! As soon as we finished eating and paid, we just bolted out the door and ran over to the meeting spot. And there were all these people who arrived after us so we were like "... D8"

We went inside the castle, and they didn't allow us to take pictures inside the castle, but anything outside was fair game. After walking around for a bit, we had some free time, so we went back down to the shops and shopped around for souvenirs. This is where I bought the telephone booth and double decker keychains; they were ridiculously expensive, so I only got three of each. Yeah, I hadn't quite realized yet that everything in Europe was going to be expensive.

There was this ice cream shop across from our meeting place, so everyone went and got some ice cream. (:

After we went back to the hotel, we went to this place called Sticky Fingers for dinner. After everyone finished eating, Pioch announced that we would have 2 hours of free time, but since it was a Sunday, pretty much all the stores closed at 6pm, and it was already past 8, which was too bad since it was our last night in London. He suggested going to Pecadilly Circus, which I wasn't too keen on, but Danny and Jordan and them took a cab over. We really wanted to go somewhere but didn't know where, so I just ended up walking around the blocks with Traci, Bianca, and Steve. I picked up some post cards from a drug store, but literally all the stores were closed.

So understand that we were really bored. We were walking and walking, and then suddenly we come across this one road next to some building, and it just looked so creepy! It just completely led away from all the lights and stuff, and it curved off into the distance so we couldn't see where it led, and there was this black silhouette walking way in the distance, and we couldn't tell whether the guy was walking towards us or away from us (I'm pretty sure it was away from us lol), and we were so bored that we started going down it, like, a fourth of the way, before we turned around and went back hahaha.

We headed back to the hotel, where Bianca left us off, but then we realized there was another hotel, like, literally right next to ours (which was kind of stupid funny lol), so we were like "Let's go exploring!" hahaha. So we went in, but there wasn't much to do, so then we went back to our own hotel and explored the ground level for a while hahah.

Then we all went back to our own rooms, and when I went into my room, to my surprise, I found, like, everyone there playing cards! Lori, Trisha, Jennifer, Loralyn, Zak, and then a few minutes later, Traci and Steve rejoined us! Our room was packed, but we were like "Yay! People! :D" We were just about to start up a game when Alex Eisner knocked on the door and told us to go check in downstairs with Ms. Gross, cuhs it was curfew. D: