London part 2

So London is pretty cool, and I've seen just about everything I intended to see.

Sights seen so far:
Tower of London
London Bridge
Tower Bridge
River Thames
St. Paul's Cathedral
Greenwich (aka the Prime Meridian)
Westminster Abbey
Big Ben
House of Commons
Buckingham Palace
Trafalgar Square
British Museum
The Tube (about 10 times a day)
Hyde Park
Regents Park
Abbey Road
Old Bailey
Globe Theatre
No. 10 Downing St
Piccadilly Circus

Plus lots of other little things that people probably have never heard of.

Patrick actually flies in tomorrow (Friday) which makes it twice that I've been unable to tell the days of the week with the dates. I'm meeting him at Paddington Station around 1 PM tomorrow, and then we're going to check him in at his hostel, which is literally right on Piccadilly Circus.

Today I went inside St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, as both were closed to tourists when I got there yesterday. At St. Paul's you can climb way up the dome and stand on the balconies that are waaaaaaaaay up. Really cool views of London, though. Westminster was also pretty cool, but I don't have any pictures really because they don't allow it.

After that I spent the afternoon in Brighton, which is on the English Channel. It's got a Coney-Island type feel, including a giant pier with rides and even slot machines. It was nice to get out of the city for awhile, and the train ticket was pretty cheap, too. I might look into going to Dover to see the White Cliffs or to Windsor to see the Queen this weekend. In all probability, I'll probably be hitting the pubs this weekend with Pat, so I'm glad I got most of my sightseeing done already.

On Monday morning I get to wake up around 4 so I can get on the first train on the Tube at 5:02 from King's Cross to Paddington so I can hop on the Heathrow Express to make it to Terminal 4 by 6 AM to check in for my flight back home to Detroit. I get an extra 5 hours or so, as my flight leaves London at about 9 AM and gets in to Detroit at about 12 Noon. The flight's around 9, 10 hours, I think (but I'm too lazy to do the math on that one).