Saturday, June 11, 2005

day one: London, England--Greenwich and Getting Bearings

packing and flying

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my room in the midst of packing. boy do i love disaster scenes.

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me and my sister at the airport, ready to rock europe. :D

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the soon-to-be-familiar sight of my mom with the camera. oh yes. :)

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my mom and sis asleep on the plane from spokane to minneapolis

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icebergs in canada during our minneapolis to london flight

en route into the city, and random sights

then finally, we landed at 9 AM, ready to go.
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my mom and sis on our first train into london

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me in the same place ;)

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my sis and i in victoria station

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jancy and i at a mailbox just outside paddington station

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a random mews in westminster. kind of artsy. i like it :)

cruising the thames

we went on a cruise of the thames to get our bearings of the city and also to get to the observatory in greenwich :)
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the jubilee bridge with the london eye(!) in the background

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jancy taking pics

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big ben and parliament (a favorite shot of mine)

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jancy, me, parliament and big ben

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the london eye(!)

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st. paul's cathedral. EVERY SINGLE TIME I SAW THIS BUILDING I GOT THE MARY POPPINS SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD. just seeing the picture still triggers it. kinda weird.

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shakespeare's globe theatre (probably one of my favorite sights)

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at the tower of london. :)

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the tower bridge

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me and my sis next to our cruise boat

Greenwich: straddling the meridian, etc.

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jancy and i squish into a "queenie-crown" telephone booth, as my mom likes to call them

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me looking hot next to the phone booth ;)

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me, my mom, and a 24 hour clock at the royal observatory, greenwich

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me straddling the meridian!!!! :D

trying the tower
we were going to try to get into the tower, but we were a few minutes too late :( so we posed next to some ruins. :)

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at the subway going to the tower of london

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my FIRST roman ruin. pretty, isn't it?

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think i could be the next roman emperor? ;)

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MY PHONE WAS A VODAFONE! k, maybe i'm just on drugs, but i thought it was cool :D

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