London, days 2-3

This is the second post which didn't make it to the right location.

Although we nailed down our housing early, it certainly hasn't been dull!

Elizabeth and I checked out the British Museum yesterday, which was really cool. It's huge--we'll definitely have to go back to see more of it, but what we did see was awesome (Including the Rosetta Stone and Cleopatra's mummy! Woah!) After the ice cream social at the ICLC, we thought we'd really get our money's worth from our day tube passes and go out again, this time to Westminster and Big Ben. It's still kind of surreal that we're really here, really seeing these things from all the postcards and movies. Again, pictures will follow when we have a more regular routine and I can get my laptop in here to upload them.

Today:
-ate a large breakfast at the hotel (we're hoping to tide ourselves over until the free pizza tonight)
-found our way to Earl's Court for some errands (ATM for me and the Carphone Warehouse for Elizabeth)
-bought a week-long tube pass (£28??! I look forward to our student discounts...)
-took the tube to Hyde Park and wandered around for a couple of hours. There are some beautiful flower gardens, a ton of ducks/geese/pigeons, and we saw the Princess Diana memorial fountain--that was really neat.

Later this afternoon we're going on a neighborhood walk with Bill and then eating free pizza while the police tell us about local laws and things like that. Should be fun!