We began our journey today in Sir Christopher Wren's architectural masterpiece St. Paul's Cathedral. The Cathedral is absolutely breathtaking and its large dome can easily be spotted among London's skyline. As soon as we entered the Cathedral we made our way up two hundred and fifty seven stairs to the Whispering Gallery, which over looks the altar and the entire ground floor. In the gallery, a whisper spoken against one wall can be heard 32 meters away on the other side of the dome. Amanda whispered to us to do the wave and our tour guide even told us that ours was the best wave ever done around the dome! After that we made our way up yet another spiral staircase to the Stone Gallery, which overlooks the outside of the dome and has a picture perfect view of the entire city. Once we conquered our fear of heights, we walked across the Millennium Bridge, ate lunch in the park, and were lucky enough to see the play Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre!
Before the play even began, Rachel got serenaded by a few of the actors... lucky girl! Needless to say the play was phenomenal and the actors were pretty amazing too. Benvolio (the cute blond on the left) was our favorite! Finally, we ended our day up in the clouds on the London Eye, the biggest Ferris wheel in Europe!
Well that's all for now. Cheerio, parting is such sweet sorrow!
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