Scavenger Hunt and King's Cross

The weather today was lovely and sunny, a great turn around from yesterday's cold and windy.The scavenger hunt was a bit of a bust; it was very difficult and out of order, so we only did a few of the things on the list. However, before and after the hunt my friends and I walked around and found some pretty cool things. We had lunch at a cafe along the Thames and walked around quite a bit. We hit Covent Garden (which I always thought was an actual garden, but it's really a shopping district) and checked out some historical sites. We plan to go back to do some actual shopping and to take a closer look.

Benjamin Franklin's house (top) and Herman Melville's house (bottom)

We also teamed up with another group of girls and went to Kings Cross station to find platform 9 3/4! You can't go onto the actual platform without a train ticket, but we found a substitute.

Tomorrow I have orientation and my first day of classes. I'm taking a class on Shakespeare, which I'll have Monday through Thursday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm for the next three weeks. Hopefully I won't have too much homework, because I really want to spend more time out and about!