its been too long since my last post...

so there has been so much going on since i last posted. and the reason why i have not posted anything lately was because i forgot my logon name for this silly thing so i had to reach deep into my mind and remember it.....so i did. anyways this past week mary showed up with her friend sammy from prague. amaya and i went to go pick them up at the airport late last friday, or the 20th whichever way you want to think of it. so we grabbed them and it took as a good couple hours to get home. transportation isnt as good at night...not so frequent. anyways so they were here till early thursday morning, and it was so good to have them here. i felt bad though cause they were on my floor and i know that its not very comfortable, but i tried to make it as comfy as i could. but their time here was spent going into london, going out a few nights, going to hampton court palace, and realzing how expensive it is to live here.
the first day here we spent it just getting them adjusted to hearing english everywhere they went and just lounging around it was nice cause we were all tired from being up so late the night before. and we were gearing up for a big day in london the next day...
our first day in london was really nice minus that the second we got off the train it started to rain. we thought that maybe it would let up, but we were so wrong. we walked around in the rain all day getting soaked but we were seeing the sights... it was a lot of fun taking the girls aroudn and showing them everything. its a lot of fun to be with people when they see big ben or the abbey for the first time. i mean i havent been seeing them for that much longer but still it was exciting to see their reactions. the above picutre is all of in front of the buckingham palace gates. it was a good day to go to the palace becaus the roundabout in front of the palace was closed for the day so we didnt have to dodge in between cars to get a good look.
we also made it over to westminister abbey which we were excited to go into except the day that we chose to go to it it was closed for filming for the 5th harry potter movie. they are using the abbey for the ministry of magic. i thought that was pretty cool even though we didnt see anything cool. they did a good job making it look like the church was closed for service.
since it was raining annoyingly a lot we decided to head into the national gallery in trafalgar square to get dry and look at some van gough and monet. so we did and it was lovely. our day was running short so we headed back to kingston after that. and what do you know the rain started letting up the closer we got back to waterloo train station. whatever london.

the next day was just me, sammy, and mary that went into lodnon and boy did we have a busy day. we started out heading into hyde park and kensington gardens so we could go find the peter pan statue. and today was 1000 times better to be out and about. no rain. yes. so we walked through the park and into the gardens and stumbled right upon the statue. it was so quiet and fairly tucked away. i guess james barrie (the creator of peter pan) had the statue put in in the middle of the night to keep the mystery of peter pan alive. i thought that was cool. so we hung out with peter for a bit and headed on out cause we were hungry!!!! the rest of our day included heading over to tower bridge and then walking along the thames back to the train station. the path is called the queen's walk and its lovely. it has you pass through some old streets of london and the globe theater.

the rest of their days here we spent going shopping (well they did i had school) and going to hampton court palace which is just down the road from my dorm. and just so happens we were wandering around the grounds and found a gate that let us right into the royal gardens behind the palace and next thing you know we are inside the courtyards getting our audio guides. haha. we cheated the system.

ok well i was gonna post more pictures but my computer is being dodgy and not wanting to participate in what i want it to do. so there you a go mary adventure in the form of a blog.

ps. i will post more pictures soon