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From Abroad

Today I did not go to work and it was fabulous! Instead I got a tour of the Houses of Parliament??..so amazing!!!!! We were shown just about everything except for the Prime Minister?s office. Everything is so proper and organized and traditionalized. I really enjoyed the tour; I learned a lot from it. I didn?t really know a lot about how the British system worked. I have a better grasp now of what goes on between the House of Commons and the House of Lords. (Don?t ask me about it b/c I probably won?t be able to explain it). Haha! I do think I?ve learned something about it though.
After the tour I took a little excursion out to the Eastern edge of the tube system, to a place called Barking. It was sooo different from London. It seemed very just small townish, but it was also dirty. I immediately wanted to go back to the city. We had some train problems getting out of there, but eventually we made it back to the city.
After that little excursion, I went to Abbey Road (you know The Beatle?s Abbey Road).

It was about 5:30 so traffic was insane! There was this mom and her (probably) 15 year old son. She was seriously standing in the middle of the road, with drivers getting soo pissed at her, yelling at her mortified son to ?go! go! do the pose!!!? He was so embarrassed and finally just conceded and let his mom take the picture. I got quite the kick out of that??.silly mom?s! I got some pretty good pictures of myself.

It was a fun little thing to do. I would have liked to have gone there at 6 in the morning or something when no cars were around and just have a blast doing crazy poses on the ?zebra.? (what they call a cross-walk)
Following Abbey Road, I went to Notting Hill and found the Traveling Book Store where Hugh Grant ?worked? in the movie Notting Hill.

It was fun except it started raining and was very cold. I was wearing flip-flops so of course I fell into the largest puddle in the world. It was pretty funny??later. After we got out of Notting Hill, my friend, Jess, and I at dinner at Henry J. Beans. It is an ?American? pub across the street from where I am living. I had a bacon cheeseburger and have never tasted something so wonderful. All the food here is either in a pie or a pudding (unless it?s fish and chips). I missed the burger!! Well that brings you up to speed. I still have more to do!!