Ok, day 4.
Just a note about Ryan, first. He constantly complains about the cost of supper and buying other things, but has no complaints whatsoever about spending $2.50 for a 500mL bottle of Coke!!
Now, for the funny story of the trip. Last night, we were all getting ready for bed (we sleep in bunks, all in the same room, and each of us has lockers, with padlocks on them). Anyway, Ryan gets undressed, down to his underwear, and throws everything into his locker and climbs into bed. Then we hear, "Oh shit...oh shit!" We ask what's wrong, and he tells us he's locked the keys for his padlock in the locker. He rummages around, and finds a butter knife in the room, and tries to break into his locker, to no avail. We calmly suggest that he go down to the front desk and they probably have bolt cutter to break the lock. He then informs us that he can't do that, because all his clothes are in the locker too...all he has on are his white undies. Well, we start laughing, hysterically...this is FUNNY!!! Dave, being the nice guy he is, offers to go to the front desk for him, and comes back with bolt cutters. Now, close your eyes, and imagine this. Here's Ryan, naked, except for white underwear, scrunched down beside his locker, trying to cut the lock with the bolt cutters. The rest of us are laughing hysterically at this gross spectacle. Dave also has the brilliance to grab his camera, and without Ryan's knowledge, snap a picture of the event!! You should have seen the look on Ryan's face when he saw the flash go off, and he realized Dave had just taken a picture of him. Priceless!! Neil decides to jump out of bed, but keeps his blanket wrapped around himself (Dave still has the camera in hand!) and helps Ryan cut the lock. Dave then takes the bolt cutters back downstairs, and buys Ryan another lock at the front desk. While he was away, Ryan, Neil and I are laughing about this, Ryan seeing the humour in it. I then remarked that it's too bad we didn't have a fire alarm go off while Ryan was "without clothes", then he's have to run outside in his undies, and that's it! He envisions that in his head, and starts laughing uncontrollably on the floor, while Neil and I continue to laugh from the whole thing. And guess what? 5 minutes later, the fire alarm GOES OFF!! The second night in a row (false alarm, again). Too bad the fire alarm didn't go off 10 minutes earlier!! It would've caught Ryan with his pants down, literally!
Anyway, on to our day. Went to Westminister Abbey. WOW, very impressive. A lot of the past Kings and Queens and other "notables" have been buried here over the centuries. Unfortunately, no cameras or video taking is allowed, but I turned my video camera on, and just let it shoot, I don't know how much I got, but hopefully enough to give people an idea of what it's like in there. Oddly enough, Charles Darwin (of evolutionism fame) is actually buried here! Go figure!
Then went on to Greenwich, of Greenwich Mean Time, and read all about the Royal Observatory, and astronomy and time and clocks. Quite interesting stuff. Our passes didn't cover this, it was 6 pounds (about $15.00) to get in.
Then went to see the Cuddy Sark, a sailing ship, similar to the Bluenose in Canada. This was OK. It was free (our pass got us in).
Then we went to the Royal Air Force Museum, where they have lots of British and some German planes. The other guys (Ryan and Neil especially) are big war buffs, and they really wanted to see this. Once again, free, courtesy of our passes.
We finished all this about 5:00 or 5:30, I guess, and headed back to the hostel. We decided to sample some British cuisine tonight, so we went to Subway again for supper!
We originally planned to leave London Sunday, but we've extended it to Monday. Tomorrow we'll go to Buckinham Palace, and I'd like to check out the London Aquarium, one of the biggest in Europe. The other guys seem to be for that, so that should be cool. Maybe we'll take in one of the MANY plays that show here daily. Tomorrow is the London marathon too, hopefully that won't interfere with our plans.
Anyway, until next time!
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