Continued Portsmouth and London Trip~~~

Ok...Now is the second part of my journey...On 9/4/2009, last thursday, John and I joined the morning prayer at Portsmouth since a brother fetched us to the coach station and our coach was at 11am, so we had time to join them...The members, as usual, very friendly, they cooked breakfast to everyone who joined the morning prayer, somemore, last night got a brother prepared a meal for us...I was so touching...After a little chit chat with the elder members, its time to go to the station...Joseph and Simon, the youth, were accompany us to the station and waiting the coach to come...The coach came and our journey to London was started...

Along the journey, I was tired and had a nap until we reached Victoria Station in London...When we reached the station, first time we need to do was finding the nearest Tourist Information Centre (TIC) because we need to wait Bro.Lin who stay at church to open the door for us, and we still got 3-4 hours time. Therefore, we need to go around the station. We grabbed a map from the TIC, and put our luggages at a luggage keeper there, cost us £8 per each...And then, we went outside the station to look for the Buckingham Palace, where is the nearest tourist spot from the station....I think because of that day was holiday so many people were there, looking at the guards from the gate of the palace...So do I...haha...

In front of the Buckingham Palace, there is a status, which is a memorial for Queen Victoria...I took many picutres of it and had uploaded to my facebook...haha...

Queen Victoria Memorial

Then, John and I went to the garden, which is under the palace (the palace includes very large area)...Along the way, I saw many vehicle and people passed my by...And finally, we saw guards standing near the gate, which mean we can take closer pictures of them...We took a video of them...

Then we walked to the garden called St.James Garden, and we saw plenty of chair at there, so we took its were for the visitors and FREE OF CHARGE, but after we sat for few minutes, an Indian guy came to us and told us that we had to pay £1.5o per each chair...What the....Nevermind la, since we had sat there for a while...Then we walked to the lake there, where there are lots of birds...and squirrels were there with the birds...haha...

After that, we walked to the palace wall...at there, we met a guard there and for sure, I had took photo with him...haha...After a few walk, another guard was there, standing firmly without movement...Then I wanted to take picture with him too, but its too many tourists there, so I dint have chance to do that...So I just took his solo picture...with his nice blade...

After that we went to Big Ben's Clock Tower and Westminister Abbey...They are combined together...haha...

Then London Eye...At there, I was scared by a stress artist, who made up himself as dead zombie...haha...And I shouted up "What the..." almost spit out F word...haha....

Since the London Eye entrance fee is too expansive for us, we decided to go back to Victoria Station to pick up our luggages and then, took underground train to Old Street Station, which is near our church...Thats the end of our first day in London...Because I got lots of activities in London, I dont know whether I need to write it out here or not, so please leave me a message whether I should or should not? Thanks....