More London

Still no luggage. Supposedly it will arrive today...we are crossing our fingers!
Yesterday we took a bus tour through the city - we covered so much ground in a matter of six hours!
The day started with breakfast from a sandwich shop around the corner and down the street. We also grabbed some fruit at a nearby market to snack on during the day. Everything is SO expensive in London! (2 dollars for every pound) So our goal was to skip lunch and just snack on cheap food until dinner.
We started on the bus in west London, and covered everything from Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Westminister Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral (where Lady Di was married), Trafalgar Square, the Globe Theater, London Bridge, London Tower and so much more! We also got a free cruise on the Thames River. One of the things that I found most interesting on that cruise was when they told us that it's against royal law to remove the stands on the sides of the river. (Stands are stairs that extend out to the river's end and were built centuries ago for people to flag down the boat to cross the river). But what was so interesting was, as we passed this old dilapidated set of stone stairs, they said Shakespeare would have stood right there to flag down the boat. So cool!
We didn't do any of the museums yet, we are saving the indoor activities for Tuesday when it is supposed to rain.
After we finished our tour, we made our way back to the dorms and slept some more. (yes!)
For dinner we went to Pizza Hut, but not like in the States. This was a sit-down restaurant with servers and other dishes and dessert and everything. They had cloth napkins - that pretty much says it all. And it was good - made on the spot and not as greasy as the pizza I've had in the States.
We were thinking about going out, but clubs are expensive (20 pounds to get in sometimes we were told), plus the tube costs 7 pounds for a day's ride, and we would have to take a taxi back. Plus we were super tired (still). And the girl we are staying with was planning on staying in, so we stayed.
I slept in the common room on a couch last night and this morning I woke up really early with the sunlight, right around 6 am. Then, just before 6:30, as someone was getting in from their night's activities, they wanted to know why I was awake and they insisted that I come and join their party. I had to politely decline about 5 times (he came back twice, the last time with one of his friends to try and convince me). Haha, it made for an interesting morning! =)
This morning we are planning on running in Hyde Park to start our day, and then we want to make it out to Stonehenge and Windsor Castle.
We actually might sleep in the airport tonight, because tomorrow we are taking a day trip to Dublin, Ireland, and our flight leaves around 6 am. Well, we found out you have to get to the airport 3 hours before your flight. Plus travel time.
So we figure it's better to head out around 8 or 9 tonight and then sleep until 5 or so in the airport since we won't have any luggage with us. (it's all staying here)
We really wanted to take a bike tour in Dublin and so we need some energy to do that tomorrow =)