Friday was the first of our two free days and we spent most of it out in various parts of London.

To start with, Bryan, Donald and I hopped the tube and went all the way to King's Cross Station where I finally got to cross Platform 9 ¾ off my list of Harry Potter-related things to do.

Even though I know the signage and the cart are mostly for show, I think it's fantastic of the people in charge to have come up with the idea — there were two smaller kids behind us staring in wonderment at the cart disappearing into the wall.

Afterward, we picked up our friend Lauren and then went to the British Museum. It's something we've been meaning to do for awhile, seeing as it's literally around the corner from our hotel, but somehow it's only near end of the trip that we made it over. I loved seeing the mummies and the Rosetta Stone.

From there, it was another Tube ride to a less populated area, but perhaps one of the most iconic in pop culture: Abbey Road. Just as The Beatles do on their album cover of the same name, we walked across Abbey Road whenever there was a break in traffic. We spent a lot of time arguing over who got to represent who and which side of the road to walk on, but eventually we figured it out. I took the position of Paul McCartney — I even took my shoes off as he is barefoot on the cover!

Last for the city, we crossed London Bridge and walked along the Thames all the way to the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. That has to be one of the most beautiful sites that all of London has to offer. We could only take a few steps between stopping to snap picture after picture. We want to go back at night as well, when it's lit up.

Finally it was time to head back to our hotel. We turned in kind of early for us, but there's a group of us headed to Paris on a day trip on Saturday! We have to wake up at 4 a.m. before being picked up by our tour bus at 4:45 a.m. at our hotel. But I already can't wait to have my last few days in England — I'm starting to realize how much I'm going to miss it!

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