Pictures from last night at the London Eye (London's famous Ferris Wheel)Good morning, it is 7:48AM here in London, i've had breakfast some coffee and read the newspaper, and we're scheduled to head out from the hotel at quarter to 9 to the U.S. Embassy to speak with some of their Attaches.
So yesterday was a great day! We all spent about an hour and a half at a conference room in a hotel about a block from ours (i can only assume our hotel's were either too expensive or booked). We met the MBAs of our program who will be traveling with us for 1 1/2 weeks until they go back home. We then went over some of the basics, are whole itinerary for the trip and what our instructors expectations of us are. After that it was about 11:30 and a lot of people were looking to hit up the pubs, where as i was more interested in going to see more sites. Thankfully Kassie was too, so we hopped on the tube and went to go see Wimbledon, and for those of you that are unaware at what that is, it's probably the most famous tennis championship in the world and the most famous tennis colosseum in the world as well. We also went and stopped in their Museum, which i have to say, for a tennis museum was pretty damn good. They some how managed to maked Tennis interesting to everyone and that seems pretty hard to do. As soon as we arrived at Wimbledon my camera went dead so i wasn't able to take any pictures myself, butKassie did and i plan on just grabbing some of hers.
So we left Wimbledon and ate at a little italian place by the tube station called Rubinos where i proceeded to have the best Panini of my life. The waitress and waiter (whom i also think were the owners) were both italian friendly and it just was a great experience.
So we got back, stopped by Waitrose, their superior version of whole foods here. Sooooooooo much better than any grocery store i've ever been too! The food is all fresh, everything, and the way its prepared and presented is in a way i have never seen before. I would base my decision to live here solely on the reason that the Super Market is amazing.
After that we did the City Tour of London which was pretty good i have to say, we just hired a coach bus and a tour guide and we drove around for about 3 hours and saw the whole city. We were all pretty beat after that, but hungry as well, so we got back and quickly changed and Me, Kevin, Lindsey, Lindley, Caitlin and Kathryn headed over to westminster and rode the London Eye (pictures above), and then went out to dinner at another little italian place which was absolutely delicious and we had about 2 bottles of Champagne (cheap in respect to Champagnes) and it was pretty good. Then we headed back to the hotel area in search for a pub, but quickly changed our minds to grab a quick desert with coffee (well me and Kathryn had coffee). That was pretty good, and then we decided it was time to check in instead of go out and drink so after showing Kathryn and Caitlin how to use the internet we crashed. Last night was so far the best night of the trip.
So that was yesterday!
So I'm actually quite excited about hitting up the U.S. Embassy, we passed it yesterday and it is huge and heavily guarded. There is also a little park right on its grounds where the british made a 9/11 memorial for the 67 british that died that day in the attacks. So after that we are headed to the EBRD (The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) which was created in the wake of crumbling communist countries in the early 90's. So i'm off to take a shower and get ready and heres to a good day!
Cheers!
Tyler
No comments:
Post a Comment