Parliament and fireworks

IT is beginning to look a lot like Christmas... I love it! Two nights ago, London had a big lighting ceremony on Regents Street in front of Hamleys, the well know London toy store. It is hard to believe that I only have 6 weeks left here. They had the band McFly turn the lights on, so it was neat seeing them.

Yesterday after a huge Indian lunch that our program had for us, we went on a tour of Parliament! It was really neat being able to walk through the House of Lords and the House of Commons. We got to see where the Queen will be on Dec 3 for the opening day of Parliament. We also got to see where Winston Churchill would stand as the Prime Minister and argue with other members of Parliament and got to feel where he would bang his fist down on the table to get his point across. It was kinda weird though... our tour was at 4:00pm and it was bright and sunny (an unusual occurrence for London) but by 5:30 (the time our tours was over) it was completely dark outside!
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This weekend is the celebration of Guy Fawks day and the UK's version of Memorial day. Lots of fireworks have been going off and will be until Sunday. But I will have to admit, I haven't seen any as good as the ones back home. I went with friend down to Millennium Bridge to see the fireworks over the Thames river. IT was cold and wet, but it was fun!