"This is a Piccadilly line to Cockfosters"...

... That's the main subway line that we use and I hear that phrase at every stop when we're on the Piccadilly line out to Carrie's flat. I'm pretty sure this will be stuck in my head by the time I leave here.

I've been having a great time, so great in fact that I haven't been posting and now will try and play catch-up. Sunday we started out our week of ultra tourism by walking, and walking and walking. That's not totally true, we had to hop the tube first to get to our walking place. We walked all along the south bank, over Westminster Bridge up to Covington Gardens, then to Piccadilly. On our way back we stopped for tea and dessert. All and all a great day and a ton of exercise. I'm getting used to riding the tube even though this day was incredibly busy.

The view from The South bank of the Parliament building and Big Ben

Monday
We decided to get a ton of stuff done today, it may not sound like a lot, but keep in mind we're not staying in close-in London and none of the places we go are in walking distance of each other. Although we do walk a lot anyway:

First stop, Buckingham Palace for the Changing of the Guards. Next we went to the British Museum, which I would highly recommend. I personally loved the Egyptian section.

Then High Tea at the Orangery at Kensington Palace. We got the full 9 yards, champagne and everything!

Here is the "sunken garden" at Kensington
Monday night we went to this great bar so Carrie could get some mead. There we met up with another American Intern Rachel and had a lot of fun and made some weekend plans to drive to Cambridge on Sunday. Should be fun, but I'm a bit nervous about the car ride.

Tuesday
We took the tube to Waterloo station and got train tickets for Windsor. Long story short some guy killed himself by jumping in front of a train and killing himself so, getting to Windsor (or anywhere for that matter) was a fiasco. After we made it we barely had enough time to do the tour but still enjoyed it.

It's been fun here so far, but hard to cram everything in. I think we're going to end up having to make a few hard decisions and prioritize things we want to see.