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On Thursday (19th) I went and saw Wicked.

I absolutely loved it. We were in the “nosebleed” section, but I still loved it. The soundtrack is amazing and the performance gave me chills. I think anyone who love The Wizard of Oz needs to see Wicked. It puts all the pieces together.
Then on Friday a group of us left from Waterloo, on the Eurostar train, (at 6) to go to Paris. The train ride was about 3 hours (perfect time to sleep). I’m not sure how we did it, but we packed about all the main highlights of Paris into about 10 hours. We started out at the Louvre.

I saw the Mona Lisa, Greek and Italian sculpture (I saw part of the frieze from the Parthenon), and Venus. Then we went to the Eiffel Tower.

It was about a 2 hour deal to go from the bottom to the top and back down again. Well worth it though. Then we took the metro to the Arch de Triumph.

We seriously walked off the metro, took a picture and got right back on the metro. (It was a little rushed) Then we went to Notre Dame.

We took our time there, and watched some of the service that was going on. I honestly prefer London to Paris. It was very dirty there, I didn’t really feel safe and people were very rude. I just didn’t feel any of the ambience of “Paris.” This is my personal opinion so everyone should check it out for themselves, but I wouldn’t be heartbroken if I never went back to Paris again. I do love there crepes though.
On Saturday I spent the whole day reading Harry Potter 7. I finished it in about 12 hours (not too bad). I will not spoil it for anyone, but I found the whole process of reading it emotionally draining so that was about all I did yesterday. I am a hardcore fan so I am a little attached to the characters.
And finally, today I went to church at Westminster Abbey. It was beatiful and the all boys choir was probably my favorite part. Then three of us took a boat tour/ride on the Thames to Greenwich.

This is the Millenium Bridge..view from the boat.
Then,of course, we did a little shopping.

Greenwich was a lovely little spot, and I had a very relaxing day there. Seeing all the old warships on the Thames was also very interesting. Something I won’t have time to do, but would have liked to is go visit the Maritime Museums they have on these old warships.
I have much more I am fitting in during my final week here so don’t think I’m done with interesting blogs :-)