First Spot of Rain

Hello! Writing again today after an accomplished and all-over-the-place day.

Started it off with a trip to Abbey Road(we had to) and it was everything we hoped for-ridiculous, cheesy, and that's about it, but exciting. The street surprised us by being smaller than anticipated. It was ridiculous because people were risking being run over by taking this one picture and there were at least 20 people at a time there doing the same thing.

Our next visit was to the British Museum. It was huge and crowded, so we only managed an hour there. We did see the highlights-the Rosetta Stone and the mummies. Oh, and Andrei ran into an friend and her family from school on the way in.

We got hungry after that, so we headed over to the fancy Harrod's, the biggest department store in the world(I just made that up). As recommended by Grandma, we checked out the food hall where each room holds a different kind of food(fruits and vegetables, chocolate and coffee, fresh meat and seafood, etc.). We ended up getting some sandwiches and a sausage and potato pie. As we were eating outside, it began to rain. And we watched everyone move under the covers where we happened to be.

As is was only 4pm, we decided to check out the Royal Observatory Greenwich. We got a little turned around when we arrived, but finally found Greenwich park and made it up the steep hill to the observatory. It started raining pretty heavily while we were there, but it just made all the buildings look more amazing. The walk was worth it because the place was interesting, especially to Andrei. We even got to see where the Prime Meridian was and stood in both hemispheres at the same time. Magic. Even more confused about time.

So we are looking forward to getting to bed a bit earlier than the past few nights because tomorrow morning we will be heading to Stonehenge and Bath!