You Can't Hide Bulldog Pride!!

Amber here, again.

Would you believe that across 6 hours, an entire ocean and a different country/continent that we teachers can never escape our students??? Today, after seeing much of Westminster Abbey and taking several reflective moments to ponder over the inhabitants of its lovely Poets Corner (have a Shakespearean sigh of contentment here), who did we run into??? DUNBAR Students!!! It's always nice to hear students politely shouting your name across the famed coronation area of England's most famous church!!! Anyway, we enjoyed visitng with my former student, Marci, and some other Dunbar students who were in the area for the annual Scotland Exchange Program. They were fretting because their chaperones had semi-dissappeared and they were yet to locate them. We looked around for our colleagues and my principal (yes, fancy running into your boss on vacation!), but didn't help them come up with anything. I'm thinking they found them though, since they never came back to beg us for help.

Aside from that, we had lovely time at Buckingham Palace (I saw the Quenn's head!) and looking at the swans, ducks and pelicans in St. James Park. I absolutely loved riding the London Eye--it provided breathtking views of Big Ben, Westinster, St. Paul's and some other very strange London buildings (I thought one looked like a Faberge egg!).

Despite having to pay to use the loo and getting some blisters from my oh-so-I-thought-comfortable $65 flip flops, all is well. The England game was great, though it took them forever to score and some English blogue asked me to squeeze him after I asked him to excuse me from running into him one my way to the loo!

Funny moments in London never end!