Pictures

I'm in London this weekend, and Amy keeps mentioning that I don't have enough pictures with me in them. That's exactly my point, I keep telling her. It really makes no sense to pose for a picture. I guess I'm like Brendan Fraser's character Ben in Scrubs. I think posed photos are so fake. Before I mentioned I don't think pictures do much justice. Why would I then ruin the awesome scenery with my mug? I have a terrible posed smile; any of you who are friends with me on Facebook have seen this. I mean, I'll take a picture with family or friends or girlfriend no problem, but I kinda just don't want to take pictures with great sights. So I apologize if you wanted to see pictures of me and cool places. You'll [mostly] see just the places.

That being said, LONDON

This view, from the bridge by Westminster (Westminster Bridge?) was really cool. Obviously that Big Ben

Buckingham Palace. This one was interesting to me to take like this. Just the fact that it's such a famous place, but we were gated off from it. Weird, but I couldn't help but think of the fact of all the atrocities that had happened in the past at the hands of England and the fact that the royalty seemed to shut everything out and live in their own perfect little world. I don't think it's like that anymore, though.

Amy and I on the tube!

This was so cool. I was in St. Pancras station, and the guy on the right started playing. I'm pretty sure he was paid to do it. Eventually he stopped, and then random people, like the boy on the right, came up and played. The best part was, everyone who played actually knew how to play, and played something beautiful. I sat outside a Costa Coffee for a bit and just people watched. It was nice

Okay, so I called this Superamerican on Facebook. Pretty self explanatory, but I loved this picture.

Standing right outside the National Gallery (awesome place, saw Van Gogh and other great painters) and overlooking Trafalgar square, with Big Ben all the way back there. Great view.

This was in King's Cross Station. Largely ignored, I couldn't help but feeling a bit somber as I came across this. Had to take a picture.

Tower Bridge from the Tower of London. Pretty cool place.

View from Tower Bridge, that triangular prismesque building is the Shard. Kinda funny, it seems almost out of place, and upon a quick Wikipedia look, it's not very inhabited (too pricey).

Tower Bridge from inside the Tower of London. Had to stop to take a picture.

That's about it. I saw the Crown Jewels, but we couldn't take pictures. Such pomp and pageantry. It was cool, but almost disgusting.

It's interesting that it seems like British culture loves the monarchy (not exactly sure if this is accurate). They kinda sucked for years and years, but then this Queen comes along and I guess she was pretty cool. Anyway, bed time.

Adios ;)