On October 26th, Dan and I were back on the plane again!!
Over the course of our trip we had pretty good luck with all our flights, which was surprising based on my stream of bad luck with airports. But when we landed in London, SURPRISE! No more good luck. We had to immediately evacuate the airport. Fortunately, the evacuation only lasted 10 mins so we didn't have to stand out in the cold, but we did have to wait almost two hours to get our luggage, which they brought to us on trolleys and dumped in the hallway between arrivals and baggage pickup since we weren't allowed back into the airport.

On our second day in London, Dan and I walked around the city checking out all the sites on our list. Since the tube in London is 3 pounds (which is like $8 CAN) we got a lot of exercise!
The line-up for the London Eye looked super long so we decided to come back to it later in the week.

Tower Bridge . . . NOT London Bridge as it is commonly mistaken for. London bridge is not as exciting as Tower bridge, actually it's ugly. . . so there will be no pictures of it here.

Piccadilly Circus was actually a whole lot smaller than I thought. It reminded me a little bit of Dundas Square . . . Dan and I became a little nostalgic during our time in London. Out of the three cities we had stayed in, it was the most like home and the only place we've been in the last three months where everyone speaks English. We immediately fell in love.

On our walk we found this guy just cillin' out on his rock. Later in the week Dan and I found out that he, along with his five brothers and sisters belong to the Queen, as they were a gift to her at some point. They have also been eating stray pigeons which was why they were so popular in the papers. Is that normal?

Ok, so I thought Dan geeked out the most when we were at the Opera House but St. Paul's totally takes the cake. Since Dan's favourite childhood movie is Mary Poppins he freaked when we got here, and then suddenly became upset when he realized there was no bird lady sitting across the street. Actually, there were no birds either. . . it was sad really.

We weren't allowed to take pictures inside, so we waited until we climbed all the way up to the top of the dome to get some great shots of London.

Who can guess which ugly bridge is London Bridge?!

The next day Dan and I made it back to the London Eye, and surprisingly the really long line-up went a lot faster than we thought. It moves really slowly so we had a good half hour to take a hundred more pictures of our favourite city.

Team Canada strikes again!

Parliament buildings and Big Ben.

After we got off the Eye, we decided to check out Westminster Abby, but we didn't have enough time to go in.

Then we said hello to the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

Our most important stop of the day was Harrods. Like two fashion students would come to London and not go shopping!! We went to Top Shop too . . . which honestly is just like a really big H&M and not as impressive as I thought, but it was still pretty cool. My favourite store in London is Office, a shoe store that has great sales and great boots . . . I got a white pair.

Dan and I stayed at the Generator hostel, which I totally recommend for anyone staying in London (or Berlin). It was a blast! On our last night there was a Halloween party at the bar and since I thought I was missing the big night this year, I made sure Dan and I would be attending. Our roommates joined us too! Karen (from Sweden), Paddy (from New Zealand) and Jodi (from BRAMPTON, ONT!!!) were all up for some Halloween fun!! Everyone who was staying at the hostel was either from Australia or Canada! I even met some guy who was born and raised in good ol' London, Ont!

Marissa (right) and I were proud of our 2.50 pound costumes from Top Shop.

This is our friend Erica from the USA.
She has a killer voice and totally dominated Karaoke the previous night!

These are our Irish buds. We didn't know what they were saying ever cuz they just mumble! But WOW do they know how to drink! If you want to have a great time and you love beer, go to Ireland!

Overall, Dan and I had an amazing trip!! We were both so happy to have seen and done everything we did and totally didn't want to leave London the next morning. Going back to Diemen was really hard (truthfully, it's not that exciting here!) but now that it's becoming home, it was nice to sleep in our own beds. And obviously we went straight to The Crib.