The City 5/12/2012

May Twelve, 2012 –

Today we started off walking to St. Paul’s Cathedral and on the way I realized that I had left my wallet back at the hotel.  Sumner and I turned around and walked back so he could change and I could grab my wallet.  We were told to meet at St. Paul’s once we had everything.  Once we were finally ready we hopped on the Tube only to find out that when we needed to change lines, ours was shut down for engineering work.  We left the underground and hoped on an aboveground bus to St. Paul’s.   The group walked around for 1 hour trying to find the cathedral, but I found it and was able to walk back to the hotel and then all the way to St. Paul’s in about 20 minutes.  We toured the amazing cathedral and walked up the 528 stairs to the very top and were able to see London from above the city. 

After the St. Paul’s we then left for the Tower of London, and unfortunately we saw our first accident in London.  At the Tower of London we saw the torturing devices used hundreds of years ago, and the crown jewels.  The crown jewels were very ornate and in the same place we saw loads of gold pieces that were ridiculously large. 

Our last stop of the day was the Imperial War Museum, which was in the Elephant and Castle area.  Here at the museum was a collection of military vehicles from different countries and the history of wars that have been fought.  This was an amazing place and a great history lesson.