Days 26-28: London

Monday after landing in London we met up with the group and went to a presentation by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Kind of a governing body for construction in the UK. After the presentation we walked by Westminster Abbey and also went to Churchill's London at War, which was a museum in what was used by the British government as a command post and bomb shelter throughout WW2.

Westminster Abbey.

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Some people trying to see how many they could cram into a telephone booth. They got 8.

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Tuesday we went on a Thames river cruise, and afterwords walked through Hyde Park to Kensington Palace. Tuesday was kind of a short day so I didn't get to take too many pictures.

Changing of the guard at the Royal Palace.

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At Kensington Palace.

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Wednesday a group of us went to the London Zoo, and it was awesome. I didn't really expect to like it so much, but I guess I just forgot how much fun it is to see some of the animals.

My favorite part was walking through their rain forest exhibit. In the exhibit, you walk around this rectangular pit that has a small section of rainforest habitat they've created in a greenhouse. This pit is probably about 12 feet below the walkway that you're on, and there are trees that grow up over the walkway and which allow some of the animals to climb up on to the walkway, such as this guy. I have no idea what he's called, but I like him.

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And his little friend.

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This guy climbed up over us. Kind of scary.

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Not sure what he is either.

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Meercat.

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These otters were pretty cool. They would grab a rock and try to balance it on their paws while juggling it back and forth. They were actually really good at it. I wish I had a video.

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Bigger rock. He dropped it.

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War Eagle.

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Look at that turtle. Huge.

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Its kind of hard to tell in this picture, but the monkey that's being jumped on was sitting there eating something, when the monkey that's on top of him walked up and swatted the food out of his hand. The first monkey was obviously none too happy about this, so the second monkey jumped on top of him and then ran away.

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Regent's Park walking back from the zoo.

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From London zoo