Day 3 from Europe!

Day 3 from Europe. We saw and did a lot today. But to start the day off GREAT, we had a fire alarm in the hostel at 3:00AM!!! Everyone had to evacuate, and, boy, when everyone's standing outside the hostel, there's a LOT of people at the hostel. All standing in the freezing cold in their pajamas and underwear (actually, most people spared the time to put some clothes on and grab a jacket before evacuating). The fire trucks came (3 of them), went in, found nothing, and left. Apparently, someone on the third floor left a tap on, it overflowed, and shorted out the fire alarm system. At least we know it works, I guess.

Got up about 9:30, went and saw the Tower of London...this is quite something, parts of it date back to 1080AD. Crossed the Tower Bridge, but our London pass didn't cover admission to this, so we didn't do the tourist thing here. Then did a tour of the HMS Belfast destroyer (battleship? Where's Ryan when you need him!) I at lunch on the Belfast, and spent $8.00 for a BLT on the restaurant there. But I was hungry and had to eat, so what do I care?

Passed by a Forbidden Planet store, Ryan was in his glory. They are a 100% sci-fi and fantasy store, and had LOTS of Star Wars stuff, most of which Ryan already has, but he did buy one small "doll" that he didn't have.

Did the London Dungeon, London's "worst" tourism attraction. This you have to see, it specializes in gruesome deaths, plague, murder, and has quite graphic scenes depicted of heads cut off, Jack the Ripper, lepers, disfigured people, and people with their guts hanging out all over the place. Got lots of pictures of it! Definately different and something interesting to see. Our London pass got us in to this for free.

Went to the British Museum. WOW, impressive. HUGE building, with massive displays from the four corners of the earth. They have a special Cleopatra display right now, which was interesting. Mainly saw the Egyptian and Greek sections, featuring mummies, massive statues and stuff like that. It's a free for anyone, which is nice.

By this time, it was about 8:30, so we came back to the hostel. Stopped at Subway for supper.

The weather is crappy though, cool, windy, cloudy, with rain every once in a while.

Anyway, we're at this hostel one more night (at least), so I'll update again tomorrow night.