The Temple and Ballet

Today started very early for me.  My roommates and I had an excellent idea to go to the London Temple and do baptisms...and of course it took us until our second to last day to make it there!  And oh what a journey it was!

We started out leaving the center at 6:30 AM!!!  We had to take the tube to Victoria Station, then buy a train ticket to Lingford, then get a cab to take us to the temple.  So we were doing pretty well on time, we made it to Victoria, bought tickets that were 17 POUNDS EACH (ouch!), and got on the train.  We sat on the train for about 5 minutes, and it left!  We sat there on the train talking about how great we are, and what a great thing we are doing, and how great we were on time, when I realized that the stop this train is headed for is LONGfield, not LINGfield!

We got up, looked at the map for a few minutes trying to figure out what to do, when an nice man handed us a piece of paper with the directions for what we need to do to get to Lingfield! How nice was that?  So we had to get off at the next stop, go back to Victoria, and find the RIGHT train.  When we got back, the next train to Lingfield was at 8:10.  We had been awake for almost 2 hours and we hadn't even left Victoria yet!

We finally got on the right train, got a cab, and made it there!  It was a great experience, and I am so happy we made the journey.  The London Temple is beautiful, and has about 40 acres of land that the church owns with beautiful paths and ponds with ducks and flowers...I loved it!

After we finished at the temple, we went to grab lunch for the last time together at one of our favorite spots by our house, Nandos!

Tonight we got tickets for English National Ballet's performance of Cinderella at the London Coliseum.  It was sooo fabulous!  The dancers were incredible, and so graceful!  I loved every second of it!

After we left the ballet, we were on our way home on the tube, when a lady stopped and started talking to us.  Come to find out, her family are from Nevada and are LDS!  She said she saw us and said to herself that she knew we were BYU students.  It was so funny!  Not only that, her son is roommates with a girl we live with's brother!  Small world!  It was a fun little incident that made us all happy that someone noticed us and thought we stood out in a good way!