Jolly Ole London

Hey Guys,

We are now on our third day here so we thought we would update you on what we've done so far.

First of all if there are any errors in this, I'm sorry - keyboards are weird over here

ok so
Day 1:# We landed in Reykjavik, Iceland around 6:30 AM and explored the airport for about an hour.  After doing that, and us both watching a poorly done documentary on the country - we both want to visit it - but that will have to be another trip.
We jumped back on the plane and landed in London around noon.
Once we were there we were greeted by an immigrations officer who was less than friendly. She wanted to see our travel itinerary and proof that we were leaving her country (which we didn't exactly have) anyways so after she grilled us we got through and were allowed into the country.
From there we jumped on the Tube and headed off for our first hostel - the International Student House - which was kinda weird, but whatever we are in London!
So we dropped off our stuff and got settled, and took off walking down the streets. The first thing we discovered was some sort of mall/market place in the middle of London.  Before we knew it we had stumbled upon (works in real life too) Picadilly Circus. 
From there we went to check out Big Ben and Parliament before we crossed the River Thames.  There we checked out the Eye of London and saw some street performing goons. Grant was tired so he got a greasy cheeseburger from a street stand, and we also picked up some ice cream and made the TREK back to our hostel.  There we grabbed some beer and met some people who claimed to work at Apple (we weren't convinced) and we were in bed by 8 - yeah we missed Chelsea winning the Champions League, but whatever we hadn't slept for 30+ hours.

Day 2:
We woke up nice and early, Grant around 7:00 and Michael around 4:45.  Then we headed down and got some free breakfast courtesy of the International Student House. It was complete with white, soupy, watery scrambled eggs, and some fried toast (not french toast, it was like they literally put a piece of break in a deep frier)  After this, first things were first - get the hell out of the International Student House and to our new hostel - The Arsenal Tavern Hostel.  This one was complete with 3 story bunk beds, and a two inch mattress - but it felt more like a hostel and was all around better, so we were happy.  Then we made the one mile walk over to the Arsenal (Emirates) Stadium.  Then we made our best decision of the day and bought tube passes that were good for the entire day.  So we headed over to Kings Cross Train Station (yeah were Harry Potter heads to Hogwarts from) and bought our own train tickets (and farry ticket) to Dublin (suck it immigrations lady, we didn't want to stay in your expensive country).  So after we booked our tickets we grabbed some local fast food - we think, and then it was time for us to do something we had both really wanted to do, check out the Olympic Village.  This was complete with a giant mall, tons of other people, a giant construction zone that prevented us from getting close, and a ton of delicious smelling high end restaraunts that we couldn't afford to eat at, and it was far away (we had to sneak through the tube gates, because we had left the zone we had bought tickets for, shhhhh).  After we check all of that out we rushed as fast as we could to the other side of town, to see the Chelsea Champions League Parade.  Unfortunately the tube had other ideas (Karma I guess) and held the train for a while because the other train was too far behind. So when we got there the parade was over, and everyone was walking back. We thought we would at least check out the stadium since we had traveled all the way out there, and on our way we found ourselves in the middle of the parade that was still going on!  We were promptly covered in champagne and pelted with celery (yeah, idk English tradition?) [and back to everything we had lost in the internet disaster]
At this point we were starving - and once again exhausted, but we vowed to ourselves we would stay up till 10 PM (yeah we're old - or our bodies are out of whack, or both) We then grabbed a few beers, and giant burgers, and managed to make it to exactly 10 before we headed to bed.
[sub note - St Pauls church was in there somewhere, it also needed to be cleaned, and Michael took a picture in the church despite there being signs everywhere telling him not too)

Day 3:
Breakfast at the hostel was plain, but good.  Toast and cereal left us full and ready for the day.  We took off to spend our last day in London seeing the things we hadn't seen.  First stop on the list was Hyde Park, so naturally we stepped off of the Tube and walked into Green Park (yeah, we don't know how it happened either) but it lead us to Buckingham Palace, which seemed like a nice place to live, exept for all the people watching you every day.  We were also unwilling to wait for the changing of the guard, which would have been a 40 minute wait (bad timing by us I guess.)  Then we went to the famous department store Harrod's, and saw some expensive stuff (inluding a £20,000 bottle of whiskey) and some expensive chocolates and cheese too :).  Then we finally checked out Hyde park, which was fine.  Westminster Abbey was next on the list, then headed towards the Tower of London (£26 to see the place - rip off - skipped that) so we headed accross Tower Bridge and grabbed some lunch, which was very good but very small portions.  Then it was back towards the hostel where we grabbed some stuff to make ourselves some sammiches.  Then we went exploring around the hostel. First stop, Cockfosters, which had made the two of us chuckle everytime we had heard it for 2 days, so we had to visit.  Then we came back and checked out a £1 store, and a couple of other grocery stores.  Then we went to the local park (Finsbury Park) and saw the locals work out.  None of them look like they had run very much in their lives, but one guy in particular was wearing Cargo Capri's and a Polo Shirt to go running in.  It may not have been the best running gear, but I guess he looked good doing it?????  Then we headed back here and started writing this!

Tomorrow Dublin - Watch out Ireland, here we come.