I left you with my excited rant about the awesomness that was the musical "We will Rock You". Again I must tell you that it was absolutely amazing!!! But let's backtrack a bit to the beginning of Wednesday.
On Wednesday we started off with a trip to westminster abby. It is a beautiful church where all of the monarchs are coronated and where Princess Diana's funeral was held. Unfortunately they do not allow photographs in most churchs in the UK. It is a respect thing. The gents are required to removed their hats and all cell phones must be turned off. Even though I don't share the Anglican beliefs it was very cool to be there when the moment of prayer occured. I thoroughly enjoy touring churches and cathedrals.
Next we were suppose to get to tour parliament (Big Ben) however the day before that the speaker of the house resigned because a vote of no confidence had occurred. It was also Wednesday which is question and answer day for the Prime Minister (Gordon Brown). That meant that the line was INCREDIBLY long to get in and all British citizens that want to get in are automatically moved to the front of the line so therefore all of us tourists were just out of luck. However we walked to 10 downing street which is the equivalent of our White House and got their just in time to see the chaos that was Gordon Brown leaving to go to the question and answer session of parliament.
Since our parliament tour got canceled we took a liesurley lunch in leicester square. We ate at this nice little Italian shop or at least some of us did. Right before that we got our show tickets. After that the trip supervisors decided to do a river boat cruise with us and take us to the tower of London. The Tower of London tour was suppose to happen Friday. We are kind of glad it happened that way though because that gives us all an extra free day!
So over all it was a great day. At about 5 Zack and I came back to the apartments and I had a little scare. I thought I had dropped my tickets but I just forgot where I put them so zack was griping at me like he always does. Then we went to the theater and were about to go in the doors and Zack realized "OH NO!" He had left his ticket on the kitchen table in the apartment!! I felt bad for him but it was funny. I went on in and met the professor that had decided to see the show with us and he ran halfway across London and back in 35 minutes so he only missed the first song of the show.
Anyway here are a few pictures from wednesday. I couldn't take a whole lot because some of the places we went didn't allow photography but I got some.
I'm also uploading a video of a Yeoman who gave us a tour of London tower. He was really entertaining.
I'll update on Thursday and Friday next.
The Yeoman who gave us our tour of the Tower of London (A video is coming next).
Me, Zack, and Errin being silly before our river cruise.
All of the Police Officers (Bobby's) doing crowd control of the protestors outside parliament.
Ok I just thought this was funny. An alcohol delivery vehichle in front of a church lol. 
This is westminster abby. It is so pretty inside I wish I could have taken pictures!
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