Olde London

We got up early this morning, trying to beat the crowds to the London Dungeon and the Tower of London. It turns out that you have to get up REAL early to beat the crowds on a saturday, especially easter weekend. The line was rediculous at the London Dungeon, so we went acrossed the river the Tower of London, which still had rediculous lines, but it's much bigger so we figured it wouldn't be as bad.

Once we got our tickets, we got inside just in time to catch a tour leaving. The beefeaters give the tours; in the old days, these were the guys that tasted the royalties food to test for poison, and later become kinda general gaurdsmen for the castle. It was a great tour, with unending interesting information. The line to see the crown jewels wrapped around the entire castle. I really wanted to see them, but not that badly. We checked out the White Tower, which was the armory, looked around some more, and by then it was already getting fairly late. We stopped at at a little shopping area by the London Dungeon, sat down for a bit, and checked out the gift shops.

We then went to the Elephant & Castle shopping centre, which I had never heard of, but apparently is famous. It was very lower-class and dingy, and reminded me of the malls in Mexico. It was all caribean and south american people and shops, which was quite interested. I was hungry by then, so we ate at a Columbian resteraunt. I had Lengua Criole (sp?), which was cow tongue in a tomatoe sauce of some sort, with rice and the things kinda like french fries that are still unidentified.

Probably the most interesting thing about the mall were the headphone dancers. As we entered the mall, I noticed big signs all over saying "NO CAMERAS!!". Once inside, all through the mall were dozens people wearing headphones and absolutely rocking out. They were dancing around the place like crazy, many in big groups in the middle. It was quite a sight! Kyle and I tried to discreetly take some video with the cameras, but within about fifteen seconds a security gaurd descended out of nowhere and told us to get lost.

We then went back to our hotel so I could catch a couple hours of sleep before heading to my rave party that night, which will be the subject of its own post.