oh, that's not too expensive! wait....

Sometimes it's hard to remind myself that the prices are in pounds, not dollars. It's really disappointing to find that the $20 sweater you were thinking is actually a 20 pound sweater, which is completely out of my price range. Dang it.
The dollar is currently at around 1.93 to a pound, which makes it really difficult for us Americans to stay within our budget.

YESTERDAY
So this post is to make up for the one I didn't do last night. Hope you understand.
Yesterday was an adventure! We took the tube down to Trafalgar Square, where we acted like tourists and took pictures of everything. For good reason, really... it's a beautiful, beautiful place. After looking round the square for a few minutes, we went in groups of 15 to Benjamin Franklin's house. It's the only one left standing that he actually lived in, and it's almost been knocked down four times since it was built in the 1700s. Once it was almost hit by a German bomb in World War II... but the bomb didn't detonate. Lucky! It's an amazing house - you can feel the history when you walk in, and it's amazing to think that such an influential man walked on the same stairs and touched the same railings I did.
After we left Ben Franklin's house, we walked down the street a little ways to Big Ben, the houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. By this time the sun (yes, the sun! it had been cloudy since we got here) was going down, and it cast an amazing light on the buildings. They were absolutely beautiful. Really.
Well we touristed around for a while there, and then took the tube back to our flat. Had some dinner (we had bought groceries yesterday), and then I went with a group of about six for our first night ever! The club we went to was a really swanky one, where everyone was wearing black (like that's a surprise, everyone always wears black) and drinking wine. There were older people there, too, not just the young kids we had expected. We got some weird looks with our American accents and everything, but it was fun for the most part.
And that was my day. Stay tuned for more adventures!