I'm FINALLY Back...

The Eye of London

Big Ben

Metro System called "Underground"

Other side of Big Ben

Looking up

Yay for looking extra shiny haha
Oh well

Inside Lloyds of London

Sorry its taken me F-O-R-E-V-E-R to post another post. Good thing is that just mean you're in for double the dosage. haha

First off, last Wednesday our study abroad group went to London to visit Lloyds of London. Its a market place for brokers to sell different types of risks to a myriad of insurance companies. Its amazing! Professional athletes can even buy insurance to cover specific body parts...or an opera singer can get their vocal cords covered! Its pretty interesting! We went on a tour of the place...I enjoyed it.

Afterwards, we took the metro to different parts of the city. First, we stopped at Big Ben and Westminister Abbey. Unfortunately we weren't able to stay in London long enough to see all of the big sites (we plan on returning for a day trip this Saturday!!). Next, we HAD to make a stop at Harrods, the biggest department store in the world!!! We got through like a fourth of a fourth of a fourth of that place haha. IT WAS SO HUGE! It reminded me of something that would come out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...no lie. Every brand you could ever imagine...ever!!! It would take someone an entire day to get through it...maybe even two days.

My favorite part of the entire trip was seeing the Broadway show WICKED in London. Words can never thoroughly explain how I felt about this show. I've seen The Lion King before...and to me, this show was on the same level as that!!!! It might even be ranked slightly above...the storyline was twisted, crazy, music was amazing, choreography was out of this world, and the costumes were great as well. The music was just breathtaking...at this very moment...you can hear me singing the lyrics to "Defying Gravity" (one of the songs in the musical)!!! I would see that musical again in a heartbeat!

The train ride up and back to and from London was great. I also thought the metro system was pretty neat, too...I wish we had transit systems like that throughout America! I enjoyed London; however, while there I felt rushed because it was a class excursion...I can't wait to go back :)