Today was a pretty busy day. I started out having breakfast with Brandon in Southampton, and wound up at the Dickins Inn with Kristen and 30 of my classmates tonight. Brandon's flight left at about 2pm local time, and he should be landing in MN very shortly. (Actually, I just checked and his flight has landed, yay!) I hope he had a good flight back.
I met Kristen at the airport and we headed down to our hotel near Tower Bridge. Here is a shot from out the front door of our hotel.
We only had about 1.5 hrs to do something by the time we got checked in, and it started downpouring outside. Lucky for us there are not one, but TWO Starbux outside our hotel. We went to one, grabbed a drink and just hung out until the rain was over. After that we walked around the area to find where our class was meeting later in the evening. It didn't take very long, so we still had an hour to burn. We decided to take the tour of Tower Bridge. The tour took us up and through the high passages, and through the engine rooms. Since Kristen and I are both engineers at heart, we thought it was pretty cool. By the end of our tour, it was definitely night time...
By the time we got back to our hotel, it was time to head to The Dickins Inn to meet up with all of our classmates. It was nice to see some familiar faces, and meet some new people too. We needed some dinner so split a pizza with the Dans - it was really good!
We hung out there for awhile and heard about everyone's travels before the weekend, and got some great advice about things to do while we're in Paris tomorrow and Sunday. We're both excited for that! We'll be doing a bus tour of London with our class tomorrow morning, and then jumping on the EuroStar to Paris in the afternoon. Please pray for our safe travels! I'll be updating with pictures when we return on Sunday night!
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