Windsor Castle and London Eye

As I mentioned last time in the blog, I have been playing tour guide the last couple of days.  The first was Friday when my friend from highschool came and I tried to take him to some of the big attractions around town.  We kind of did that by finding pubs close to tourist attractions and having a pint while catching up on our time since good ol STA.  It was a great night and fun to see how he has been at Westpoint.

Saturday morning we headed out to the airport to meet Libbie's family who arrived some time around noon.  We traveled out to LHR which is about 45 minutes on the tube and headed back to South Kensington to their hotel which is about 100 yards from our flat.  After we moved them in we headed out to see Covent Gardens, which seems to be the best place to show our guests.  We walked all over that area and had dinner at a pub called The Prince of Wales which was very good.  After this meal we walked over to Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese which is turning into our favorite pub to bring our guests too for the sole fact of the history.  The sign on the outside of the pub says REBUILT in 1667 which gives you an idea of how old it really is.  We meet up with Charlie, my room mate, and his parents there and had a couple pints.  Fun place to hang out and talk.  After this we headed back to South Kensington and went to Zetland where some of the members of our group were.  We stopped and introduced the Roberts to all the guys from our flat. At this point in the night the  jet leg caught up and we headed home.

Sunday morning we were up bright and early for our trip to Windsor Castle which Scott, our director, planned for us.  We headed to Paddington Tube stop where we caught an actual train to head out to Windsor.  It was about 45 minutes in total because we had to transfer in a town called Slough(which was where the British TV show "The Office" was shot).  Windsor Castle is where the Queen spends most of her time and she actually calls this place home.  We heard that the Queen was having lunch when we got our tour.
Here are some of the pictures of the Castle.  The sad part is, we couldn't take any pictures inside the castle, which was very cool.

 

After our tour we headed home and ran to the hotel before heading to the London Eye which was very cool.  We set our time for 630 and it was a perfect time because it was dusk when we got on and dark by the time we got around the enormous ride.  Here are some pictures of the view up there.

You get some very cool views from up there.  

Today we had class most of the day and for the first part of the day we went to the present day Shakespear globe theater which is as accurate as can be remake of the one from 400 years ago.  It was pretty interesting to think about the plays he directed and how they performed them in comparison to what we see today.  For example, there was not multiple copies of the script lines, only one, so the actors(only boys in these days) had to be very good at improving when there lines were suppose to be said and what not.  Better example is how the words were spoken, used to describe what was going on rather then special effects we see today.  Anyways, we had a actual class after that and than I came home to take a nap.  Tonight I went to see the broadway show Dirty Dancing, which was not up my ally, but the performers and dancers were very talented an it kept me entertained.  

Tomorrow I have a paper to write! Fun fun.  Anyways, that is what is going on in my life right now and I hoped you liked some of it.

Cheers

Jimmy