Note: I'm sorry it's taken me so long to finish this! Between the chaos of the last day, packing, and coming home, it's taken me a while to sit down and do this!
It was our last "real" day in London on Wednesday, so to begin the day we took a riverboat cruise to Greenwich where we saw the National Maritime Museum, the Queen's personal residence, and the Prime Meridian! Being the space cadet I am, I didn't bring my camera along this day so I'm miffed I don't have any pictures to show of when I was in BOTH hemispheres of the globe simultaneously. That was surreal. It was on my bucket list to be in two places at once (a la 'A Walk To Remember') so I was able to cross that one off my list! It was pretty cool. You had to treck up this insanely huge hill to get there, and we were all dying at the end of it, but the views were totally worth it. Too bad I can't show you because I forgot my camera... arghi;dfjlsa.
After this Greg gave us our 'allowance' as we dubbed it so we could top off our Oyster cards to get us to Heathrow the next day. Amanda, Megan, and I were able to pocket that though because we opted to take a taxi instead! That got us lunch rather than a ride on the Underground, so we were quite pleased. The rest of the day we were chaotically throwing everything into our suitcases and checking, double checking, and triple checking all of our drawers to make sure we didn't forget to pack anything. We somehow managed to get everything packed away and then we had to go for our farewell dinner...
As cheesy as it sounds, our group was phenomenal for this trip. We had a great mix of all kinds of people, and what's better yet is that we all got along. We had fun the whole time and we didn't get annoyed with each other. It was sad at dinner because it was the last time we were all together as a huge group with Greg and Jeanine, but fun all the same because we just sat and talked for about 5 hours. There was SO much food I can't even tell you. Greg was right in saying that he uses EVERY dollar that we put into the trip because all the excess went to this dinner and food just kept coming... I think we all gained 5 pounds that night off of everything we ate. It was so good though... mmm fish and chips. Lots of pictures were taken, inside jokes explained, and the boys put back more pints in front of a teacher than I've ever seen. It was a great time all around :]
We all took a bus back to the flat and then did more packing. It was odd seeing the flat so clean and empty when we had all had our junk piled in there for a few weeks. We all hung out in the kitchen afterwards and contemplated pulling an all nighter, but decided against it.
All in all, this was the best way to start off summer. I can't think of a better trip to have taken, or better people to have shared it with. I have so many good stories and pictures, and I'm so blessed to have been able to have done this. There'll be one more "summation" post after this, but for now... Cheers!
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