Many the Mile

Ahhhhh my feet hurt! (AKA today was a good day)
Today we started off the day by going to Westminster Abbey, which is obviously cooler than what I usually do first thing in the morning. I loved it a lot. I say this all the time- but there is so much HISTORY in that place! I'm loving this whole history thing! That's why England is great, most of these things I'm seeing are from before my country even exsisted. Cool eh? Anyways, Westminster is cool because the ceiling is sooooo high. And there are so many important people buried there, it's incredible. My highlights were: Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling (wrote my favorite poem, "If"), Isaac Newton- so cool, and my very most favorite that I love: George Frideric Handel. I stood at his grave (which is just a slab on the floor that people walk all over) for like ten minutes singing the Messiah in my brain. I feel that he did so much for us all, and that he was truly gifted. There is even a chair there that Edward I had build for his coronation and it has been used ever since. AKA every royal bum has touched this chair- for hundreds of years. I wasn't allowed to sit in it, maybe if I marry Prince William or something. Can't be TOO hard.
After that I went back to the National Gallary and spent a couple hours there..... still just staring at those Monets and Van Goghs and, like I recently wrote, my new true painter love John Constable. I LOVE his work. They also have a Da Vinci sketch, which is the only thing i've seen by him (in real life of course), and that was jaw dropping... and it wasn't even a finished painting of his. Just a study. Something that surprised me was that (as of now) I think that I decided that my favorite painting in the National Gallary is "Gladoli in a Vase" by Renoir. I am in love with it and I don't know why. Paintings are just so different when you're seeing the original.
After the Gallary I went to the National Portrait Gallary and looked at some portraits. It was cool, lots of famous people and royal people and everything, but nothing TOO memorable for me yet.
After dinner Rachel and I wanted to go out, so we hopped on a bus and just went wherever it took us... we ended up at Oxford circus (shopping) and hit every store ever, and kept walking till we ended up and some tube stop. I really really like clothes a loootttttttt.
No wonder my feet hurt today.
Ok it's the next day, but I never posted this so I'm adding on:
Today I went to the Tate Modern... and I always thought modern art was for me, but i left kinda disappointed.
Anyways, after that I went to Burough market, which is the greatest thing. I would pay big money to go there with Marko, tasting all the up-scale food and walking through the masses of people eating home made everything. It is SO fun. I ate Indian curry chicken stuff and it was.....ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Then I went to St. James Park and Buckingham Palace. I was hoping the Queen Elizabeth would come out and say hi- but no such luck.
My feet feel like they are broken, and strangely, it's a good feeling.