Free Time in London!

For most of yesterday and today I got to wonder around London with some friends doing anything we want. It was a great to just have no plans that required us to constantly watch our watches to know the time for once. Even more nice than that was getting to sleep in two days in a row, a first for this trip. Yesterday I went and saw London Bridge which wasn't nearly as exciting and amazing as I thought it would be, it looked like just another random bridge, but I took some pictures anyway. Next we returned to Westminster so we could see the devastation that was left over from the riots the nights before. There wasn't really any definite signs that there had been a riot because they had been cleaning the area up for hours by the time we got there. However, we could see where they had been washing the graffiti off among other things. We also wondered over to the Natural History museum. That was interesting but it wasn't what I expected. They did have some interesting hands on attractions so I ended up spending a lot of time there.
Today we went over to Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of the guard. We couldn't see much even though we were right in the front because this one girl kept climbing the fence which was not only annoying but just rude in my opinion. But I did get to see some neat things and I could hear very well which made it slightly easier to follow along since I couldn't see. We made it over to the British Museum and spent probably two hours wondering around. That place was just to big to get to see everything however. We made sure we visited the Rosetta Stone because of it's obvious importance. I also spent quite a bit of time touring the Greek, Roman and Egyptian areas because those are my passions and Aarika was nice enough to tag along with me. I studied four years of Latin in high school so it was so amazing for me to get to see so many actual artifacts from that time in real life. Next we met up with some other friends for a late lunch at a pub. Fabulous food and even better friends just made the day end perfectly with so much fun!