Hidden Treasure

After school today, we went into London to "fly" on the London Eye. Luckily there was no line because it's in the 30's here! Some pictures from the trip (watch out, there's a lot!):

On our beloved 281...

Parliament (which we will be visiting on Friday)

The group

(Lisa, Me, Lauren M, Janis and Allison)

Roomies!

Afterwards, we decided to try Los Iguanas, a Latin Cantina. Wow. Hands down, the best Mexican food we've had here! But, when we ordered chips and salsa, this is what they brought:

It was basically two chips per person. We laughed and the waitress just stared at us like we were crazy so we explained how we do chips and salsa in Texas. After we finished eating, we circled back to a German Christmas festival we had passed through earlier and got crepes for dessert...yum :) We found an indoor place to sit and eat them, which also happened to be housing the World Press Photo '10 exhibit. Amazing. This was one of my favorite pictures in the exhibit:

This photographer did a series on this autistic boy, who is lives in Peru. Among the few things he enjoys doing every day, is sitting in front of the TV and touching the screen because the feel of the static calms him. Another photo in the series was simply the static of the screen, which makes the boy so excited he jumps up and down. This particular series really captured my attention, having previously worked with autistic chilren such as this and caused me to think about how truly blessed I am and how different things could be. 

Randomly stumbling upon this exhibit was the icing on a perfect night :)