London Day 3

Since today was Sunday, we went to church this morning. It was hard staying awake for all three hours..but church was good. It's always good to be able to learn more about the gospel. :) Also, the ward itself was pretty interesting....the ward we went to was in Hyde Park. I guess it's a pretty popular ward for visitors. In fact, we learned that during the summer, about 2/3 of the congregation are visitors. As a result, the official ward members are really used to visitors and they're used to not introducing visitors at church...it would take too long. :)

Anyway, after church, Sister Larson was kind enough to invite us to have "dinner" with them. We thought this would be around 6 pm but soon found out that she meant lunch. So, we had to adjust our plan to go to the British Museum. It closed at 5:30 pm today so we would visit it tomorrow. We just thought it was funny since dinner was really lunch. I wonder why some people refer to lunch as dinner?? I've heard it a few other times before...like once or twice.

After "dinner", we went to the Tower of London and saw the crown jewels. Of course, pictures were not allowed. The jewels were really cool!! In fact, they were all in a huge "bunker" (AKA Safe). When we went into the room to see the jewels, you could just feel the security surrounding them. The metal doors were HUGE! After seeing the jewels, we wondered around the area and also got to walk along the tower bridge. It was really pretty and the weather was perfect!

Then, we rushed off to the Westminster Abbey to see the free organ recital. Sister Larsen had mentioned that they wouldn't let anyone in after it started so I started to get worried when we almost got lost. It took awhile to find the entrance to the tube. But we arrived at the Abbey and the Guard let us in. I guess you have to specifically say you're there for the concert or else they won't let you in. Anyway, the guy who played the organ was really good! He played for about 40 minutes and the best part was we got to see what the inside of the abbey looked like without paying. :) YIPPEE!! It was really beautiful! I wish we could have taken pictures, but again, no pictures allowed.

When the recital was done, we wondered down to China Town for dinner. Yes, we were in England hunting down some good Chinese food! Well, I guess more like good Asian food. We ended up eating some Japanese food. We hadn't eaten that for a while so it was YUMMY! :) China Town was pretty cool too. I wish Minnesota had a China Town too. Then we slowly wondered around and then took the tube back to our "home".

Anyway, that's basically all I have to say about today..and since Andy is too lazy to write on his own blog, he would like to add three things:

1. Movie tickets are EXPENSIVE! They cost 11 - 25 pounds, which is 22-50 dollars per person! CRAZY! Definitely can't complain about the prices in the states.

2. Burger King is too expensive to eat here. Not that we ever eat at Burger King anyways... but the burgers cost 4 - 5 pounds, which is 8-10 dollars.

3. Lack of customer service. Everytime we eat in a restaurant, you have to ask 5 times for the bill. Or you could just get up to leave. Customer service is not a priority and that is why you don't tip here.