Monday, January 11th

We had our first group outing today. We went to the London Museum and St. Paul's Cathedral. A large portion of the museum was closed, so we only got to learn about London's history up to the 1500s. Not very exciting, especially since being in Egypt with a lot of super interesting history. St. Paul's was beautiful. It was a lot of fun watching Allyson's reaction to the Cathedral, because she had never been in anything of the magnitude before. It was fun to watch her absorb its vastness. I liked it a lot, but I tend to like Gothic Cathedrals much more.

Allyson and I ordered our first Fish and Chips at a pub! It was delicious. It also came with mushy peas, but I was not a fan.

We walked to the Millennium Bridge, our second visit to a "historic" Harry Potter site. It is the bridge that is destroyed in the 6th Harry Potter film. Not as impressive as I thought it would be. It is actually quite dull.

In the evening we gathered a group of girls and went to see Sherlock Holmes. We walked down the road to the Coronet Theatre. (Mondays are student night, only 3.50 GBP!) The Coronet is amazing! It is an old historic theatre, so it has multiple levels and balconies for each screen. Very cool! The movie was really good, and showed a lot of locations in London! Haha a little bit into the film, we realize that someone in the theatre is continually yelling something. It sounded like the guy was saying "Woof"! Listening harder, we realized that he was in fact saying "F*** Off!" every minute or so. We think he had tourettes, because this went on for the entire movie. It was pretty strange.