LONDON!!!(and Newcastle)

Hey everyone. Last weekend my roommate and Joe and I went to London. Another great, perfect, amazing weekend. London is a great city, very busy, and full of history. Our weekend started with a good, old, traditional, English breakfast....it wasn't very good. After that we went on a walking tour of London. We saw the London Eye, Parliament Building, Big Ben, 10 Downing Street, Trafalgar Square, and of course, Buckingham place (wish you could have been there Mom). We were staying with a friend of mine from SLU for the weekend, who had taken countless tours our London with other guests. So he was able to give us a complete tour which was really nice. That night we went out to Piccadilly Circus, is London's Time Square and not a circus. It was very fun and enjoyable. It was so nice to be in a place where people speak English. The next day Joe and I woke up early and took a train to Leeds, about 2 hours train ride away, from there we took at bus ride to a small town to Wetherby to see Joe's close family friend, Rose. Rose is a very sweet 70 year old woman, who Joe has know for a very long time. Rose gave us a tour of the great town of Wetherby, a quiet town that was smaller than SLU's campus. It was great to see the simple town in England. Rose took us to a pub and then made us lunch at her house. She was so friendly and I definitely won't forget her. After Wetherby, we made our way to Newcastle and followed Charlie's directions to the ice rink just in time to see most of the game. The game was great. The fans were very enthusiastic and it was great to see how much they loved talking to Charlie after the game. That night Charlie showed us around Newcastle and we took the first train back to London in the morning. Thanks to Charlie for being a great host. Back in London we went to the Regent's Park area and artsy neighborhood called Camden Town for dinner. It was an amazing weekend. London is definitely some place I need to go back to at sometime in my life.  Still have a great time here and I can't wait to see you again. Enjoy the pics

-Benjamin

Big Ben and Big Ben

huh...I didn't know there was a wedding coming up

Go Vipers

Chuck