First Three Days :)

First three days consist of lots of leg work-- getting paperwork figured out, orientation, running to Sainsbury's (the local grocery store), hitting the night life, trying out some new foods (fish and chips, traditional sausages and mash!), and meeting new friends. Also, we took a long three hour walking tour of our neighborhood in london, Kensington, and a three hour tour by double decker coach of greater London. It's exhausting, overwhelming, but simply incredible. This is truly the busiest, trendiest, richest, most exciting, and coolest city I've ever seen :)

Some pictures to keep you interested...

These two pictures are of the street we live off of... This is an incredibly wealthy district and literally every street has a Maserati, a Porsche, a Bentley, a Rolls Royce, or an Aston Martin parked by the curb. Included is a picture of one such Maserati...

The first pint in London being raised up with my roommates, Mike and John. First beer of the excursion was an Old Speckled Hen Ale on tap... at slightly colder than room temperature of course!

Delicious traditional Sausages and Mash for dinner!

Royal Albert Music Hall two blocks away from our flat!

Depiction of 'America' at the base of a memorial to Lord Albert in Kensington Gardens right up the street.

Lawn chairs for hire in the park near the pond where the swans live... Right next to the park is Kensington Palace where Lady Diana once lived with Charles.

The sign outside of T.S. Eliot's residence just down the road from our flat :)

Some photos from when we did our coach tour... Much much more have been taken, but I haven't the patience right now to upload all 107 of them. And certainly many more to follow as this is just the second full day I've been here. Enjoy!

A view as we enter the city center...

The National Treasury.

More of the eye...

The river, the Eye, and the Aquarium...

You're probably wondering, "Why did he post a picture of a wall?" This is brickwork on the side of a small church that was damaged from the Blitz during WWII when the Germans bombed the city!

St. Paul's Cathedral... Really spectacular.

Christina and I at the Tower of London :)

The London Eye

Down on the left there is a yellowish building with trees in front of it... this is the building for MI6!!!