Local Exploration

Day 3

I've been in London for a few days, and I've mostly conquered my jetlag. So far I've gone to church at the Britannia Singles Ward, wandered around the neighborhood to buy a few essentials, walked through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, and bought an excellent waffle.






Here's the BYU London Centre. I live up on the 4th floor, on the left side behind that railing. There's 12 girls in my room in 6 bunkbeds. Apparently, we were the "must have total darkness to sleep" group.









This was me, on the first day, with my obligatory red phone booth shot (red phone booths are everywhere):
The Brittania ward was cool, though I was surprised at the number of people from the States there. Apparently it's okay to be American in London.

Kensington Garden is awesome, and just around the corner from the center. Everything is so old here. It's just a whole different feel from America. There's tons of birds everywhere















I don't know what most of them are. But there are a lot of pidgeons, swans, ducks, and geese. The happenin' place to be is the Round Pond. When I walked through on Sunday morning there was a parade of white swans all along the north side of the pond.There's also this awesome group of old men who race remote control model boats around a bunch of cones out in the pond. They were really into it, and talking about how they'd modified their boats since last time and such.

This is one corner of the Prince Albert Memorial. Apparently, they have a rather outdated perception of America.

Hyde Park has beautiful avenues of these enormous old trees. I wish a picture would do it justice.

These gates are probably my favorite. I'm not sure if they're supposed to have some symbolic meaning or what, but they're straight out of a fairytale, and the metal work is absolutely gorgeous.