Next was London! Only Jaclyn, Natalie and I were going on this trip. By the time we actually got there on Thursday night it was very late. Brian's cousin Emilee met us at the train station because we were sleeping at her apartment for the first night. She was so helpful. Right away she told us we needed to buy these things called "Oyster Cards" to use the Tube (a faster version of our subways at home). We would have had no clue that this even existed without her. Her apartment made us feel like we were back at home and it was nice to have a tv for the night considering our apartment in Florence doesn't have one...

The transportation is so easy in London that we were able to see everything that we needed to in this big city in just about six hours on Friday. First we went to Abbey Road. It took much longer than I expected to get the perfect picture of us walking across it. Cars were constantly coming from both directions. We literally had to stop traffic to run out quick and then go back to the sidewalk. After many attempts we headed through a park over to the Buckingham Palace. It was beautiful especially with all of the gold. Then we went to the London Tower Bridge. At this point it started to rain but it was still really cool to get to walk from one side of the bridge to the next. Once we finished that we went to see Big Ben. I didn't realize that the London Eye was so close to it. You literally turned around and it was right there. After all of that walking and hopping on and off of the tube we were starving. We got afternoon tea at this really nice hotel. It was delicious! We each got our own little teapot along with finger sandwiches and desserts for the entire table. A little later on I met up with Emilee again to get dinner at this tapas place in Oxford Circus, which is the equivalent to Times Square in New York City. Once it was dark out she brought me back to see the London Eye, which was lit up red. She was honestly the best host and it was so nice to see her!! For our last two nights we stayed in dorm rooms with Jaclyn and Natalie's friends Adina and Kelly who are studying abroad there. After saying goodbye to Emilee I met back up with all of them and we went to this place called Funky Buddha. We ended up getting into the VIP section and meeting the owner who I later found out is best friends with One Direction! Apparently that is the club that they always go to when they are there!!!

Since we got pretty much every touristy thing that we needed to done on our first day we all went to these outdoor markets on Saturday. They reminded me a lot of Canal Street. At this point we got Starbucks at least five times because we are deprived of it in Italy. Everywhere I turned I saw the famous red telephone booths. We made sure to take plenty of pictures with them! On top of that there were the red double decker buses on every street. It reminded me a lot of Harry Potter and Juicy, of course. I made sure that I rode one at some point before we left! At night we went to a club called Cargo. It was 20 pounds to get in, which is super expensive but it so worth it! It had multiple rooms with different types of music being played in each one. It was a great way to end our trip!