Day Seven: Hip on Hip off...Happy Christmas Eve from London!

We spent our day taking the "Hip on Hip off" bus tour around London seeing all the good sights. We spent ALL day calling it that because the guy at the front desk said it like that with whatever his accent was and from wherever it was...when he said "hop" it sounded much more like "hip." Inside joke that stayed funny ALL DAY LONG. We saw tons of great stuff like Big Ben, the London Eye, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, the London Bridge, we went on a Thames River boat tour and then last was Buckingham Palace! That made up our entire day and it was a great way to get in everything you want to see without having to walk all over the place.

After the bus tours we came back to the room and on the way bought a few souvenirs and then headed for dinner. We went to a restaurant that is really close to where we are staying called Cous Cous and it was a Moroccan restaurant. None of us had ever had Moroccan food before but we ended up ordering pretty well because everyone liked their food! Weirdest one was mom's but we all tasted it and thought it was good. From the outside it looked like a pastry with cinnamon and sugar sprinkled over top but then inside it was a chicken pie...STRANGE but good. You put a piece in your mouth and it's sweet so you think it will be dessert and then after taking a bite you taste the chicken and it's more of a dinner. Mine was made in a Tagine which is a clay pot that it's cooked in and when it came to the table it sat there bubbling for like 5 minutes! Very very tasty and a great choice for a Christmas Eve dinner. :)

Only down to four more days until I'm home and it feels soooo weird. Santa comes tonight!!!