Adventures in London: Westminster Abbey and Roses!

Westminster Abbey

Started off the day with class. Then some of us headed over to Westminster Abbey Once we got into Westminster Abbey it was pretty cool. The architecture was amazing. We weren’t allowed to take pictures or I’d show you. We saw Elizabeth I’s grave. That was cool. But the best part, the part where we freaked out, was when we went to the Poet’s Corner.

We saw the graves of Robert Browning, Tennyson, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Dryden. They had memorials to lots of other people not buried at Westminster Abbey too: John Milton, Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, George Frederic Handel, Laurence Olivier, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Winston Churchill, Samuel Coleridge, Caedmon, Christopher Marlowe, John Ruskin, and William Shakespeare. So many cool people! I couldn’t get over it. There were so many authors and poets right next to each other. It was overwhelming to see so many of them all at once. And several of them had amazing quotes on their grave markers. Definitely the best part of my time at Westminster. I bought an adorable umbrella in the gift shop too. It’s a clear one with the London skyline around the bottom.

So many roses!

After Westminster Abbey, we came back to drop off our souvenirs and then headed right back out to go to Regent’s Park. We really just wanted to see the Queen’s Rose Garden. It was beautiful. There were so many different kinds of roses. They were wonderful. I took so many rose pictures.

After the rose garden we headed over to Piccadilly Circus and got Ben and Jerry’s. Chunky Monkey and Chocolate Brownie with chocolate sauce on top. It was delicious! Ice cream is wonderful. Came home after that and had pizza for dinner.

Ok, before I say “Enjoy the pictures!” we have to talk about the heat and humidity in London. Um…it sucks. It’s really not that hot. Only like 75 degrees, but the humidity is like 80%. Bleh! Plus, when you add the heat and the humidity to the stuffiness of the Tube it’s awful. So hot. Anyway, long story short: I’m missing the rain and the 60 degree weather.

Now, you can enjoy the pictures. J