I want to live in Buckingham Palace!

Today, class was at 10am, and it takes an hour to get to classes on the tube. So basically I had to start my alarm ringing/waking up process at 7:30. Made it on time, though. This class is on the history of immigration to Britain. Its pretty interesting, and though the prof lectures the whole time, my interest held the full three hours. Some things I never knew, like the reason that London doesn't have many litter bins on the streets is because the IRA was putting bombs in them.
After class several of us headed over to Buckingham Palace for our tour of the State Rooms. Basically, opulent and beautiful. Not much to say that can be said without pictures, which we weren't allowed to take. There was one really cool secret door that was pointed out to us, which the Queen uses to get to the State Rooms from her personal apartments. They also had a collection of 80 of her state dresses from her reign. Some were incredibly beautiful, some not so much (basically everything from the 70s and 80s). What surprised me the most is how incredibly short she is. Also, when she was young she was very tiny. The waists on the 1940s dresses were ridiculously small. The tour let out in the gardens, though you couldn't go onto the grass. After the palace, some of us went to read in the park, and the rest went home. Now I actually have to do my homework...