Livin' la Vida Loca

Sunday morning (we thought it was Sunday) rolled around and similarly just like we would wake to the chickens in Kansas, we woke to Ryan telling us to get up. Then came the big decision, sleep or take a walking tour of the most memorable sites in London. After some extensive decision making we decided to take the tour. It was a great (or "brilliant" as our Irish tour guide would say) decision to take the tour after all.

On the tour we walked by many different historical places, including Buckingham Palace. Although the Queen was not in, we did manage to get there in time to watch the changing of the guards and listen to the quite interesting band they had. We heard songs such as Livin la Vida Loca as well as Can You Feel the Love tonight played by the British band. Our tour guide told us they play the songs for excitement for the tourists as well as the band members.

We found it rather interesting to find out that depending on which flag is up at the Palace you can tell if the Queen is in or not. Unfortunately for us the Queen was not in, as the British flag was up rather than the Queen's flag. We then went and saw Prince Charles' house as well as Prince William and Harry's house. After that we went to Trafalgar Square and saw many different fountains as well as a statue of Admiral Nelson. We then headed down to see Big Ben (the clock, not the quarterback) and Westminster Abbey. There were plenty of opportunities for pictures around there and we decided to take one in a phone booth as well as others. On a side note we saw a statue of Abraham Lincoln along the way, not quite sure why he was there though.

Right after the tour, our tour guide told us that there was a great place to eat lunch where we would get a little discount. We decided it sounded good and set out on the trek of a lifetime to get there (not realizing that we would be walking around 2 miles!)

After eating a decent meal we walked to Piccadilly Circus to look for a t-shirt and ran across a couple of street performers. The first guy was flexible enough to do the limbo beneth a one foot tall bar. The second man did a handstand on stacked 2X4's of wood. Both were amazing, but we decided to not try our hand at them!









Fortuantely, by the end of today we have definite plans for the future. We are headed to Portsmouth to take the night ferry to Caen then to Normandy on Tuesday morning. Although we wont be spending the night the next six days in a hostel in Paris or on the shores of Ireland, we did find a nice hotel for five nights in Paris. Until we uncover our next bump in the road, remember, we are just Three Men, One Summer Abroad.