LONDON, Last Day!

Sunday, June 29 was the last day of my first visit to London... and it was the best day out of the entire weekend.

We got up early to check out of our hostel and meet up with Nancy... unfortunately though, there were some technical difficulties on the tube and it took much longer than expected. When we were about halfway to our destination, there was an announcement that the tube was being suspended so everyone got off. We called Nancy and she told us to meet up at a different station, so we tried to take the bus there... but there was a mob of people trying to board the buses (since the tube broke down) and it was just way too crazy.

SO, we got back on the tube 15 minutes later. By this time, the tube had started up again.

Two hours later, we arrived at our destination, starving and relieved!

Nancy took us to this cute Greek/Indian restaurant near the tube station.

This was sooo delicious... I'm practically drooling right now looking at these pictures.

After "brunch," we went to the noon service for HILLSONG LONDON!
Yes, that is where Hillsong London services are held... in a theater. It's so crazy.

Here is the foyer of the theater. I was so excited to be here... you don't even know. I felt like I was on a field trip or something.


So, let me just say that Hillsong London is basically a really huge production. Worship felt like a concert... there were light flashing, people jumping up and down, loud music. It's even more production-like than Newsong services.

After worship, infant dedications, a 15-minute video/"inspirational talk" on offering, 40 minutes had already gone by and they were starting up another worship set. So we just left.

Nancy took us to this park... I don't even remember the name of it anymore.

England is so green. I still can't get used to seeing so much green...

After we got to the end of that road, we saw this...

I think it's a conference hall or something. Pretty crazy.

Then we went to Princess Diana's fountain...


It's cute here. Kids were playing in the water and stuff.

Here is a lake... I just thought it was pretty.


Afterwards, we went to Notting Hill...

So cute how the houses are painted different colors on this street! Seriously, that made me happy... haha.

There were some vendors on the street. But Nancy told us every Saturday morning all the vendors come out here and it's packed with shoppers. Sounds so fun.

I really liked Notting Hill. It's super cute... wouldn't mind living there! It's probably super expensive though.

This was our destination, the Travel Bookstore (as seen in the movie, Notting Hill). I saw this movie but I don't remember anything about it. Anyways, this was the scene where Hugh Grants meets Julia Roberts.

It was quite cute inside. =)

So after that, we went to Piccadilly Circus, which looks like Times Square in NYC.


Then, we ate dinner!!! at this restaurant called C&R in Chinatown. They serve Singaporean food. It was my first time eating Singaporean food... SO good!! This was the best meal I've had in England so far.

After dinner, we had time to kill before our coach arrived so we just walked around the area...
Then we took the tube to Hyde Park, this gorgeous and super girly park. I say "girly" because there's pretty flowers and fountains here. It looks like a place you can get married in.


Dang, pictures don't do this place justice. It was seriously so pretty. We only had a few minutes here because we had to get back to the coach station, but I want to come back here someday...

Anyways, so that's the end of my pictures!!! I was too tired to take pictures of the way back.

London was a good place to take my first trip away from Sussex. I want to go back there... soon! =)

LONDON, Day 2

The next day, we woke up pretty early and got to central London by around 10:30AM.

This time, we had a better idea of where to go because Nancy was nice enough to e-mail us a list of things to see, do, and eat.

Here is where we went first: BIG BEN!

This area of London was packed with tourists. Plus, a few minutes after I took this picture, it started to get really sunny and warm... a perfect day to walk around.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY! I learned about this in Art History...
Kind of sucks because I only remember learning about it, but I forgot all the history and stuff behind it. Can I not...?

This is the inside of St. Margaret's, a smaller church nearby. I wasn't supposed to take pictures in here but I did anyways...

I don't remember what this is...

Basically, I just like taking pictures in front of nice buildings.

We're walking to see the changing of the guards... so pretty here!

I don't get what the hype is all about. All they did was march around and blow their whistles.



Buckingham Palace. There were a CRAZY amount of tourists here when the guards marched through.

Now we are going to the National Art Gallery. This place was really nice.

So I completely missed the sign in front that said "NO PICTURES." I was wondering why people were giving me nasty looks while I was trying to take this... one guy even shook his finger at me. My bad.


These were the desserts at the museum's food court. OH MAN, they looked so delicious but were about $6-7 each. I was starving by this time.

This is at the museum's bookstore... I got in trouble here too for taking this picture.

On our way to lunch in Chinatown, we came across this gelato/dessert/smoothie place. Everything looked sooo good but once again, super expensive... so we just took pictures.

Walking to Chinatown... I didn't even know they had one in London.

So I'm missing a lot of pictures from this part of our trip because I was trying to save my battery for the next day... haha.

We ate at this Japanese restaurant Nancy recommended called Misato. The prices were pretty decent and the portions were big, so that was good. It was definitely nice to eat Asian food!

Afterwards, we went here...

This placed is called Covent Garden. We were all surprised to find out that it wasn't an actual garden, but a shopping plaza near Soho. It was really cute here.

We sat down here and rested for like... an hour or two before going back to our hostel.

haha THE END =)