Only a few more days left for sightseeing and saying goodbye!  (Primrose Hill, St. Paul's, the Tate Modern and a dorm crawl)

We are so fortunate that the weather in London has been insanely gorgeous for the past 3 days!  As soon as finals were over (and thank goodness they are finally over!) the clouds disappeared and the sun shone bright...VERY RARE!!  We spent yesterday sleeping in and recouperating from a fun night out Thursday night.  Practically EVERYONE from Reid Hall hung out at Tuke Bar and then headed to O'neill's in Piccadilly Circus where the live band kept taking our requests and dedicating songs to the crazy kids from Regent's College!  So fun!  So we slept in on Thursday and then Carly, Jackie, Nikki and I walked through the park to Primrose Hill.  We had been told by people that we should check Primrose out, so we went not really knowing what to expect.  But it is indeed a hill.  There were people laying in the grass everywhere and there was a great view of the city at the top.  Laying in the grass with my girls overlooking the city we are going to miss SO MUCH on a BEAUTIFUL spring day is EXACTLY the kind of stuff I want to be doing during my last few days here.  Thursday night pretty much everyone who is still here took part in a huge "dorm crawl."  Our room was one of the rooms on the list so we had to do a little cleaning and decorating.  30 people ended up "crawling" from room to room and I have NO clue how we fit that many people in our tiny little 315!  It was a fun, crazy night though.  A good way to say goodbye to the people who were leaving early this morning. 

Trey left last week.  Tanor left at 3am last night. Nilda left at 8.  Chris left this morning at noon.  *sniffle*  It was weird saying goodbye because it almost doesn't feel real.  I still feel like I'm going to walk upstairs and they're going still to be goofing around in the hallway or something.  I'm sad to think of what it will be like tomorrow when I have to say goodbye to Carly.  I know she's going to cry...she's just like that...but I have no idea how I'm going to be.  But I'll definitely see her again, no question.  She's promised to come to Drury to visit..hopefully for Bid Day in the fall. But I guess we'll see.....

It was still one of my goals to see St. Paul's and the Tate Modern, so Brittany offered that I could come with her and her family who is here visiting for a week.  This worked out great because everyone I know but me has already been there and didn't want to pay to see it again.  So we left around 10 and picked her family up from their hotel on Edgeware and made our way to the cathedral.  It is HUGE and has the 3rd largest dome in the world.  It's funny because it looks a lot like what our capital buildings in the states look like..hardly at all like a cathedral.  We walked around inside for a while and then climbed the 530ish stairs to the top of the dome.  SO exhausting, but really really worth it.  Allison was right when she told me the view is better than from the London Eye.  You could see EVERYTHING!  and it was such a perfect day too!  Then we went underneath the cathedral to the crypts.  The Duke of Wellington, Florence Nightengale, Van Dyck, and Lord Nelson (AND his horse....weird) are all buried here.  Very cool. After seeing everything in the cathedral we walked across the millenium bridge to check out the Tate Modern.  Honestly I wasn't impressed at all.  The building itself was really ugly, I thought, and the interior is going through some major construction, so only 2 out of the 5 floors were actually open.  Disappointing!  But I did get to see a bunch of really cool Jackson Polluck paintings along with a few Picassos. Then we headed back across the river and ate a really good lunch at Strada, an Italian restaurant.  YUM!  Britt's family was a lot of fun and they insisted on paying for everything.  SO nice! 

After my adventures with the Hopp family I headed back to school while they headed off to see Covent Garden.  It's my friend Andy's 21st birthday today (YAY!) and all the guys were planning on sitting out in the park with a trashcan full of ice and beer, playing frisbee.  So I went out and showed them my skills (hehe!).  We're going out later to celebrate more, but for now everyone is spending their time packing.  Speaking of....I should probably do that. I haven't even started and I have NO CLUE how I'm gonna fit everything back into my suitcases.  Oh well!! 

I'll see everyone in a few days!!!!!