All alone at Dulles Airport, getting ready for the biggest adventure of my life so far.
At the Horse Guard Parade where Whitehall Palace used to be.
The gates near Buckingham Palace.
With my two friends, Becky and Megan at the Olympic mascot at the Westfield Mall next to Olympic Park.
With Megan at the Natural History Museum (which she promptly announced was "Hogwarts")
Having some fun with a stuffed grizzly bear at the Natural History Museum
With a triceratops skeleton at the Natural History Museum
With the most amazing animal in the world, a giraffe, at the Natural History Museum
A display at the Natural History Museum showing how tall a person is compared to various animals such as an elephant and a mammoth
The mandatory "red phone booth photo"
At the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park
The Peter Pan Statue in Hyde Park, legend goes this is where Peter got lost from his parents and then Tinkerbell promptly found him and took him to Neverland
With Megan in Hyde Park
At the Prince Albert Memorial across from Royal Albert Hall in Hyde Park
A sphinx next to Cleopatra's Needle along the Thames River
A lifelong dream of mine, seeing Les Miserables on the West End
Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre ruins in Wales
Caerphilly Castle in Wales
Caerphilly Castle in Wales
Caerphilly Castle in Wales
Caerphilly Castle in Wales
At Caerphilly Castle, Wales
Monmouth, Wales, birthplace of Henry V
Tintern Abbey, Wales with Becky
Tintern Abbey, Wales
Buckingham Palace by night
Stonehenge
The Roman Bathouse in Bath, England
Trying the "healing" spring water in Bath. It was hot and metallic tasting, so gross!
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, Emma Watson's handprints
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, outside the gates of Hogwarts
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, in the Mirror of Erised
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, Godric's Hollow
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, outside Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, Diagon Alley
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, trying Butterbeer (it was AMAZING)
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, outside Number 4 Privet Drive
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, outside Hogwarts
Warner Brother's Harry Potter Studio tour, outside Hogwarts
Big Ben and Parliament
On Tower Bridge with the Tower of London behind me
Reenacting a scene from the first Harry Potter movie with our fabulous tour guide
With Tower Bridge behind me
With Becky at Platform 9 3/4
Running at some walls at Platform 9 3/4
Running at some walls at Platform 9 3/4
At Fountains Abbey
At Fountains Abbey
At the top of St. Paul's Cathedral
With Richard Blackwood (Donkey) from Shrek
With Oliver Eyre (Shrek) from Shrek
Sitting on Burton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds (AKA the "Venice of the Cotswolds")
Christ Church, Oxford University, where the Great Hall at Hogwarts was filmed for the first Harry Potter movie
The staircase where the students first met Professor McGonagall in the first Harry Potter movie at Christ Church at Oxford University
Christ Church at Oxford University
The mandatory photo with the Queen's Guard at Windsor Castle
The tower at Windsor Castle
With the Reduced Shakespeare Company at their Complete History of Sports show
Crossing Abbey Road
Crossing Abbey Road
Signing the wall outside Abbey Road Studio
At Abbey Road
With the famous Michael Ball in Sweeney Todd
Trafalgar Square by night
Waiting for the Olympic Torch
Passing by Sweeney Todd at the Adelphi Theatre
Having some fun on the Tube
Countdown to the Olympics, less than 24 hours!
Well, that's it. There's your proof that I did in fact go to London. Like I said, most of the photos are mine, but a few were taken by my friends, and I "borrowed" them from their Facebook. I hope you enjoyed the photos!
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