Rob in London!

Yesterday Rob Ruggiero was in London town for the day! Rob is doing a summer internship in Italy and stopped for a one night layover in London, which gave us the perfect opportunity for a visit. 
We started the day by meeting up in Hyde Park, where there was a procession for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

 After narrowly escaping getting trampled by a rogue horse (true story) Rob and I decided to take a safer route and walked through the beautiful Rose Garden. 

 After that, we came across the amazing Albert Memorial that Queen Victoria had made for her husband. 

 

 Then we hit the Italian Fountains. 

An Italian at the Italian Fountains.

 Then made our way over to Speaker's Corner. There was a Christian Group speaking on soapboxes. 

After a couple hours of walking through the park we stopped in at Pret A Manger to get sandwiches for lunch. We got our food to take-away (English for take-out) and sat in the park to eat. 

After that took the tube to Tower Hill, we walked past the Tower of London and then crossed Tower Bridge. 

 There were tons of boats docked on the Thames in preparation for the Jubilee Flotilla the next day. Apparently, 1,000 ships are sailing along the Thames in the Queen's honor. The papers predict crowds of over 1 million to attend! 

 London is really getting into the Jubilee! There are Union Jacks flying all over the city, this hotel even put up a Congratulatory banner. 

Rob's dad met up with us at Tower Bridge, and from there we went to Leicester Square. We got a delicious dinner at a corner pub called The White Lion. 


After dinner we headed to the "Cineworld" where we caught a showing of Prometheus, an alien movie Rob was dying to see. 

Rob loved it, it was a little gory and suspenseful for me, so I spent most of the time hiding, but still had fun. 


After that we had to part ways because Rob and Mr. Ruggiero had their flight the next day, but it was really a wonderful day! It was so great to see Rob again after almost 6 months apart!