Late start to a busy day

So the morning started off on a bad note. Our wake-up call never came and when Chelsey saw the clock at 9, we were already an hour late. Skipping baths we were packed and out of the hotel in 22 minutes and headed to the Tube to take our luggage to the hotel where we would be meeting our group. There is major construction going on with the Tube, so two of the main lines we needed weren’t open, making the trip a lot harder and longer than we anticipated. Then we get to the ending point of our Tube journey and have to start our search for the hotel. We got the luggage dropped off (thank goodness because luggage and cobble stone don’t mix) and we were now in a rush to get to the London Eye for an 11 a.m. ticket. Luckily they don’t really go by the times because we didn’t get there until after 11 by the time we got a Tube path to take us back down there. The London Eye had spectacular 360 degree views of London, including Big Ben and Buckingham Palace. Next it was off to see Spring Awakening and work on getting tickets for shows for Sunday. On a side note, London shows are dark on Sundays, not Mondays like Broadway. Luckily there are some shows that do play and so we had planned to see The Lion King and Jonathan Larson’s (RENT) Tick, Tick…Boom. But back to Spring Awakening. We have had our tickets since they went on sale and were really excited because they were the on stage seats. Since we have seen the show three other times, it was so cool to get the new perspective and really feel like you are in the show. The cast was amazing and it may be one of my favorite performances I have seen. I was sat next to an ensemble member during the show and Chelsey had various characters like Moritz throughout the show. Now it was time to meet the rest of our group we would be with for the next two weeks. We knew there would either be a group of cool kids or they would be really weird. Luckily we got what seems to be a cool group except for one really mouthy girl who puts her two-cents in on everything. It is a little weird getting throw in to meet 45 people on a trip when almost everyone came with their own friends. The group headed out to a few local pubs and we grabbed dinner before turning in for some shut eye before another busy day.