Bananas are good

Today was a good day! Woke up...journeyed to the Tower of London! It was really really really awesome. The place is so old! Built sometime in the time period of 1066 and 1078 (both years were given to me as a building date), the Tower of London, specifically the White tower, was where the royal family lived for about a 500 year period of time. The Tower of London is where hundreds of people were tortured, and even more were executed. People like Queen of England, Anne Boleyn, whom King Henry VIII got sick of when he wanted a new wife and had executed on the charges of adultery with several men, incest with her brother, and treason. I might go to a service at the chapel where she's buried, along with many many other historically significant people. I sat in the chapel today and it was really amazing. So I decided I will go for the service on Sunday, hopefully.

We also saw the crown jewels. OHGOD. So amazing. One of the diamonds on the sceptre was 530 karats. A 530 KARAT DIAMON. UGHHH. I want shiny things. the crowns were beautiful...this one was my favorite:
It was Queen Victoria's. She didn't like the weight of the Imperial State Crown, so she had a lighter (and prettier, in my opinion) crown made of 1187 diamonds in 1870, at her own expense.

I also saw lots of guns used in times as early as the 17th century. There were outfits and old crap everywhere. It was very fascinating. I even browsed the gift shop, which used to be the torture chamber. Pretty great. I almost fell to my death by falling into a toilet that's hundreds of years old...

It was very cool being in a place that's almost 1,000 years old. To be in a place where royalty lived for so long, where so many ghosts haunt. There always have to be at least 6 ravens on the premises or the monarchy will collapse (silly superstition), so I saw a few of the 10 ravens that reside there. They were creeeeepy. Didn't see any ghosts though. Sad.

After the Tower of London, we went to lunch.......in a crypt. We went to the cafe in the crypt, by the Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields church. It was interesting eating in a cafeteria sort of environment over the tombs of people. Awkkkwarddd. Amazing creme brulee though.

After lunch, my camera was completely dead :'( We headed over to Drury Lane (theatre, not the location where the muffin man lives, sadly). There we encountered the best tour as of yet (at least in my opinion)! We got to explore a theatre originally built in the mid 1600s, which was rebuilt since because of fire. But we did get to journey down a hall underground that was from the original building. It's said to be haunted by some guy who used to have urine/bladder problems who sprinkled lavender on himself to hide the stench...I guess to this day you can smell lavender in the hallway. We also go to peek in on a rehearsal of Oliver, which was fabulous. And some young kids from the show walked by and one was like "what the hell is going on?" Dude, I didn't say "hell" til I was at least a teenager. Jeez.

Anyway. The tour was wonderful. Our guide told us how he saw Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stuart last night. I nearly peed my pants. I want to see that show SOOOOOOO BADDDDDDD. I love David Tennant SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCHHHH. AHHHHH. Sorry...I'll calm down now...but I'll have you know I will meet and win him over some day. :-P

So after the tour, a few of us checked out a British tattoo parlor, which ended up being not open...so then we went souvenir shopping at Leicester Square. We eventually came home, and right by the hotel, Rosanna wiped out and injured her ankle :( Rachel and I helped carry her home, and she's doing much better now, but we think it's sprained. Not good.

I've been on the computer for a couple of hours now LOL. Uploading pics and looking up trips to Scotland, which I don't think I'll partake in. I can barely afford going to Ireland or Scotland, but I don't think I will. I'm just so tight on money.

I am seeing Wicked on Friday though!!!!!! Shitty seats, sure, but less than 20 pounds. Can't beat that. Tomorrow we have class, free time, then a show tommorrow night.

OH YEAH. The Bride Wars London Premiere is Thursday night. I want to go see Anne Hathaway wicked bad, but I have to go see a showwww that niiiight :( lolol.

Oh well.

Now I shall leave you with one of the many songs by Rachel...about Brianna...:

Brianna sits and wears her black and pink...
Strolling along, seeing how much she can drink...
And not dieeeeeee!
Briaaaannaa!
Smokin' crack pipes that make the magic in the sky!