Saturday was an eventful day, and very cold.  We started the day with another walk around London.  We started with St. Paul's Cathedral, the outside of it. 

 

St. Paul's and the two lovers

We had Shawn as our tour guide again, he was the one who gave us a tour around the Tower of London and such.  He's a very funny guy and I enjoy him greatly.  We then headed over the Millennium Bridge, which he calls the wibbly wobbly bridge.

 

Millennium Bridge and St. Paul's Cathedral in background

The architect of this bridge is the one who designed London's city hall, and also what is being put in ground zero.  Instead of have the suspension over the bridge he has it at the side, which in turn made the bridge very unstable and sway back and forth.  London then had a company from New York fix it and they put something NASA uses to keep the rockets stable before lift off, underneath the bridge.  Supposedly if you feel the bridge move now you get free ice cream.  No one has felt the bridge move since it was fixed though.  Even though we were maybe outside for 45 minutes we were all freezing, there was snow on the ground that morning by the way.  We went into Tate Modern to warm up for a bit.  It didn't help too much but still nice to get out of the wind.  Next stop was to the new Globe Theatre. 

 

New Globe

It was amazing being able to see the Globe Theatre, I've seen and been in Shakespeare's plays before but to actually see it was fantastic.  They do have plays there and they actually start April 23rd, so I am hoping that I can go to one and experience (sort of) what people experienced a few hundred years ago.  There is so much history to this place, first it was burnt down and then of course Oliver Cromwell had to get rid of theatre's altogether, crazy man.  We saw where the Globe Theatre use to stand, right across from the Rose Theatre (I think).  

 

Sign where the old globe Theatre use to be

 

After we got done looking at the Globe Theatre "resting" grounds we headed towards a pub that was used in a couple movies, I don't remember the name :s  Then off to Clink Street!  This is where the worst prison in London used to be, well at least the museum is there now, next to a couple walls of the old Winchester Castle.

 

Winchester Castle, where stain glass use to be

We then headed off to the oldest pub in London, The George.  (still freezing at this point)  Shawn, our tour guide, said that it start in 1677, when a guy from behind him said it started in 1676.  Who was right?  Both of them technically.  Above The George sign it does say 1676, but in a plaque it says 1677.  I'll go with Shawn, just because he's awesome, and the plaque says so.  No picture though :(  Maybe I'll go back.  After that we were down for the day and could do what we wanted.  Kiley, Chelsea and I headed for Borough Market, a very big food market in London.  Kiley and Chelsea got some vegetables while I eyed all the sweet stuff.  I need to go back and get some brownies.  We had some free samples, I had comte cheese, a small piece of bread, brownie, and a piece of meat (that was delicious).  We got some pictures of Will Shakespeare's church as well.  We also did that before we went to the pub.  Shakespeare's brother is actually buried here, and had his funeral in the morning since plays were in the afternoons.  Shakespeare wanted all the actors to be able to come so he probably paid extra for a morning funeral.

 

Back of Southwark Church

After that we headed back to VH where we made some lunch (at 2 in the afternoon) and hung out for the rest of the night.  I watched some Little Britain Abroad, hilarious!  Talked with my parents for about 45 minutes before I headed off to bed.  It was a good time :)  Can't wait to talk to them again and of course to other people as well.  And tomorrow off to Camden Market, full of goths and other people :s haha  Cheers