A Daytrip to Greenwich

Saturday 2/13- Sonya, Chelsey, and I had a daytrip to Greenwich planned for a few days, so today we did just that. We woke mighty early to get on the tube and then bus ride to Greenwich, a little town and past residence of Queen Elizabeth. (**Also, where the prime meridian is, 0 degrees latitude & longitude) We had a full day ahead of us.

We first headed to the National Meritime Museum, covering everything about seafaring history. A lot of the museum is hands-on, interactive, with videos and displays. We saw a ship used to transport a queen down the Thames river, an old lighthouse, and a gallery of sea pictures. I enjoyed this museum a lot.

We then headed to the Queens House, which housed old portraits and other artwork. Inside, was a really awesome spiral staircase that was the first one made in Britain without middle support, or something like that. We weren’t supposed to take pics of it, but I managed to snap one. There was a really pretty room with black and white tiles that people can rent out for venues and parties. Cost: 10,000 pounds. WOAH! Costs a lot to hold a party in an old famous Queens house.

*outside the Queens house, front entrance

*looking at the backyard of the Queens house

We finished in time to head over to the Greenwich markets to eat and shop a little, which I was excited for! the markets have food and clothing, jewelry, scarf’s, paintings, ceramics, and other neat stuff. As far as the food stalls, there was one for every country imaginable, from ethipia, morocco, and thai, which I got b/c it had been 3 weeks since I had thai and was craving it. My meal was delicious! Some cashew and ginger chicken, yellow curry, some beef and veggies, noodles, and rice. YUMMM! For dessert, we headed strait to the fondue stall, where the guy dips in strawberries or bananas in milk or dark chocolate, and adds toppings of your fancy. I got marshmallows and some nuts. Again, it had been 3 weeks since I had marshmallows (they don’t have them here…and I just had to have them, and they were divineee!) I bought some bracelets and other little stuff from the stalls. Being in the market felt like I was in a different country; it was really sweet.

*thai food stall..delic!

*me with my chocolate, marshmallow & nuts strawberry fondue

After the markets, we walked up a big hill which consisted of a gorgeous view of London, to the National Observatory, which is known as being the spot of the Prime Meridian. It was soooo awesome to be at two places (and times) at once, the Eastern & Western hemisphere…. 0 degrees lat/long. We were very giddy & excited when we arrived. After taking pics on the meridian, we tried to see an astronomy show, but didn’t realize it cost, so walked around the time museum a whilewhich I loved, b/c as you all know, I am a very time oriented person. We got to see how watched have transformed since thousands of years ago.

*me on the Prime Meridian!!!

When we got back to apartments, we were exhausted & planned for a “girls night in,” so we went and got brownie mix to make brownies in and watched a movie.