Sorry I didn’t post a blog last night (29 July 2009). I was really tired and had been up working on papers and really just needed to go to sleep. That was easier said than done as there were girls singing in the kitchen but I was too tired to get up and tell them to be quiet.
As you may or may not have seen from the pictures I got up we went on a Thames river cruise yesterday. It was a wonderful cruise down the Thames looking at some things we had seen and some new things we hadn’t. Even seeing the familiar sights of the Globe and the Tate Modern from the river was exciting. Our cruise ended in Greenwich but unfortunately the Observatory was closed so we didn’t get to stand in two hemispheres at once. I may try to do that on Friday when I have time. It’s only a tube ride away! I won’t go into great detail about what we saw because I pretty much cover it in the pictures I uploaded and I can’t remember what all the buildings are. Usually I’m pretty good at remembering but there was so much. London has gone through major transitions even within the last decade with their new financial district being built in Canary Warf, a once not so pleasant place to be that has now been transformed into a place of business and commerce. Some of the buildings they have built there are quite impressive as most of them are mostly glass. They don’t have the industrial look that some other parts of the city still have.
I only have a few days left here. Tomorrow is Friday and the next day I will be on my way home to good ol’ South Carolina. I am so ready to be home and to sleep in my own bed with no sounds of jackhammers going on outside my window and no singing coming from the kitchen. I will have that for at least a few weeks after I get back and then the freshmen will move back in… and then I think I might prefer the jackhammer!
