England Day 7 part 2

Prior to going to England, Ryan had recommended I contact a couple of his contacts so he could hopefully see them one more time. Well I had originally had difficulties getting hold of them. But, about a week before we were leaving I finally got a hold of them by email. We had arranged to meet both of them in London at Trafalgar Square at 1. We spent most of the rest of the day with them. Talk about crazy, trying to see London in a day. Ha. It was freezing cold. Thank goodness for long underwear and coats and gloves. After meeting up with Chris and Lisa (they had never met before this) we walked to The London Eye. Where they had just sold out, so we didn't get to go on it. Oh well, next time I guess. We then walked to Buckingham Palace. It's pretty spectacular. All of the gold filigree everywhere. Watched the guards stand there. We decided that would be a boring job. Could you imagine just standing there forever with people constantly watching you? We then got ont he tube to The London Bridge, which looks at the Memorial Bridge which was much prettier. Then we walked over to the London Tower. Pretty expensive to get into and we only had 1 hour before it closed so we decided not to go in. But, the outside was pretty. After that, we got back on the tube to go to Oxford St. for some shopping. It was packed with people. Guess it was rush hour on New Years eve. We stayed there a while. Lisa had to leave us at that point. Chris came with us to dinner at Garfunkel's. We had the slowest service there. But, the food was good. After this we got back on the tube to head back to the hotel. This is where Chris left us to head to a YSA dance at Hyde Park. We did a little souvenir shopping before heading to the hotel. We decided we were too tired to go out to watch the fireworks for New Years. Which would have been exciting. We stayed in and had a lot of fun playing Apples to Apples. Good thing we didn't go anywhere because it was hard enough getting up the next morning for the plane. Anyway, we had a great time getting to know Chris and Lisa. They are both active in the Church and have great testimonies. Chris is about to receive his patriarchal blessing and looking forward to the temple. They were so awesome.