Day 56: Thursday
Woke up, toast for breakfast, then began packing everything back up and cleaning our room. By the time we finished we had just enough time to take one last walk to the heath to say goodbye, then we went into town for fish and chips. Obviously I didn’t have any fish, but I did have a delicious jacket potato with baked beans. After lunch it was time for Elli and I to catch our bus, so we said goodbye to granny and granddad and thanked them for all their kindness, and we were on our way. We made it to Poole and transferred to our bus to London without any problems. I was excited to find the bus was equipped with wifi, so I was able to entertain myself on the internet for two hours of the bus ride until my computer battery died. The wifi was spotty and slow, though, but at least I was able to talk to both Jordan and Mike. Finally, we arrived at Victoria station in London where we had to transfer to our other bus. We had to wait for about an hour, however, so I read some Thomas Paine. We got on our other bus to Tumbridge Wells, which did not have wifi, and looked out the window as we drove through London. We got to see the eye, Big Ben, and Parliament, and we snapped a quick photo. The rest of the time we were driving through the jank part of London commenting on how, if we were with Accent, that’s where they would house us. We ran into a lot of traffic, of course, but finally we arrived where Elli’s godmother, Bev, was waiting to pick us up. Bev and her son Harry drove us to their house in Sevenoaks where we got settled in, had some tea, and dinner. We chatted for quite a while about various things, then retired to the bedroom where Elli and I caught up on the internet and showered. I didn’t make it to bed until about 2am, so I had to watch all the annoying status updates about Harry Potter because everyone in America going out to see it.
