Buckingham Palace, Kew Gardens

To start the day off, we met for breakfast. There was a bit of confusion among some of the students, because the hot breakfast was an extra three pounds ($6-ish). There was some dismay when they discovered that the scrambled eggs weren't included!

We went to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard, but for the second day in a row, we were getting covered in snow, which caused the changing of the guard to be canceled. We still got to see the mounted soldiers and get lots of pictures. We had a lot of fun looking around Trafalgar Square and the stables of the mounted guards. We did lose Stephanie, but it was only temporarily!

After that, we went grocery shopping. In the interest of saving money, we're buying sandwich fixings for several meals. We had a lot of fun seeing the difference in groceries, although we discovered through accident that they still have carbonated water here; nobody liked that, although Trey found it handy for cleaning his coffee mug.

Then we went to Kew Gardens. There was a ton of plants from every continent (that has plants). Although it was very cold outside, there were plenty of greenhouses to spend time in.

Afterwards, we went shopping for souvenirs, so some people will be getting some things!

Sorry for the short post, but we're pressed for time again. Tomorrow we'll be going to the British Natural History Museum and onto Stonehenge, ending up with the Royal Agricultural College.

Personal messages!

Chris - would like his mother to know that he loves her

Kate - would like to let her sisters know that she bought them London shirts (except Emily, who wanted money). And that she's going to continue looking for something for her mom, because her mom is very hard to shop for. And she's continuing to get a lot of pictures for her dad (and his elephant ears are about the same size as the ones at Kew Garden)

Jeremiah - Hey mom and bryan. England is beautiful. Everything is going great. The food is pretty intresting, but I like it. Tell Jess and the Andersons I said hi. Keep checking the blogs to get the latest. Love you all!