Morning all, here I am at down in the hostel net area , at 10 to 7 in the morning. Why am I here so early I hear you ask? Well, I tried to call my long lost Aunty and Uncle a couple of times yesterday, but unfortunately they weren't home. So I thought that I would get up and ring them early to make sure I catch them. However, my mobile phone has magically lost the number out of it somehow between yesterday and today. Great. So I had to come and pay my pound to use the net to find the number, and now since I paid for an hour, I might as well blog.

I tell you what, one thing I never expected in a hundred years about London would be that we would have some trouble sleeping because it was too warm. True story, it has been getting down to about 20 as a minimum, which is not too bad, but of course, buildings here are designed to stay warm not stay cool. So our room on the third floor with the window that hardly opens hasn't been the best. I notice the temperature has dropped significantly outside now, so hopefully tonight will be an improvement. Also the two girls from Calgary have moved out of our room today so we have been able to snag the bottom bunks which also should help.

But enough of that. Yesterday was a bit of fun. We had a bit of a sleep in to recover from the jet lag and got going at about 10:30. We caught the tube down to Leciester square where they were setting up for the UK premier of I, Robot. There was a bit of a stage and the red carpet was there, it looked pretty exciting. We would have got along for a look at the celebritys but we found something better to do which I will get to in a sec.

So we had a look at the square, and then wandered down to Trafalgar square and saw those famous fountains and Nelson's column. And about a bajillion kids. It is school holidays here and they have a bit of a fun thing for kids there with face painters and the scouts and what not. So after the obligatory photos, we sought refuge in the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, which were good.

So while we were feeling snooty after seeing all of the high art, we trundled off down the road to Buckinghuge palace. Not a bad place the queens got there, the gardens are certainly better kept than mine. What is odd is that when we went to the royal palace in Thailand, the guards with machine guns didn't really look out of place. But to see your London bobbies packing Uzi's at the gate to Liz's joint was a bit strange. Queen Elizabeth II also doesn't have a pet white elephant roaming the grounds like King Rama IX, but them's the breaks I suppose.

Following the palace, we went to Westminster Abbey and Big Ben. More obligatory happy snaps and then the rest of the afternoon was whiled away on a boat cruise down the Themes drinking beer and taking in the famous sights such as Tower Bridge.

This took a little longer than we had hoped, so we had to rush back to the hostel on the tube to get ready - and rush hour it was on the tube at 5:30 in the afternoon. Furthermore, they sure aren't designed for hot weather, it is disgusting down there when you are jammed into a train shoulder to shoulder with 1000's of other sweaty people .

Then off to the Theatre. While in Leicester square, we stopped off on of the many half price ticket booths to grab some tickets to a West End musical. We managed to jag tickets to We Will Rock You, the musical written by Ben Elton with the music of Queen, playing at the Dominion theatre.

I am lost for words to describe how good it was. Just bloody Amazing. My hair seemed to be up on the back of my neck every second minute. I mean.... like I said, dumbfounded. I sure hope they get around to bringing it to Adelaide one day.

Oh well, must log off and get some breakfast, today we are off to the British Museum and the Tower of London.