Extended Stay in London

Hello everybody! It's Tuesday, and I'm still in London, even though I was supposed to leave yesterday. Isn't it funny how snow always manages to follow Canadians? Yesterday, my flight to Tel Aviv was supposed to leave in the morning, but we woke up to a snowy London. It was snowing all day, a total of 7 inches, but in London that is the most snow they've had since 1991, and they weren't prepared for that. All trains to the airport were canceled, and 850 flights to/from Heathrow were canceled. So I'm now leaving Wednesday (crossing my fingers, since it might snow again!)
Anyways, here in London I've done all sorts of fun touristy things. First day, Cam and I walked around exploring London. We saw Big Ben, parliment, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Picadilly circus and Trafulgar square (huge square with all sorts of large fountains, and where- had it been nicer weather- there would have been lots and lots of pigeons. Of course we also managed to have fish & chips, tea & biscuits, Indian food for dinner and had beer at the local pub just a block away.
Saturday Michael and I explored the National gallery where we saw classical art, which was mostly baby Jesus and Mary. We also saw the Natural History museum where we saw massive and expensive rocks, monkeys, birds, cool things like that. We also went into China Town, and since it was Chineese New Year there was music playing, and we saw people in various dragon costumes dancing. The dragons were kissing eachother a bit, and also climbing up in doorways "eating" (or knocking down) lettuce that was tied on a string. We then ate dragon's beard candy. Made of real dragon, of course.
Sunday we went to the British Museum where we saw interesting Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian, and other exhibits (mummies, carvings, rosetta stone, etc.) Cam and I then went to Camden market, which is I guess considered the market where all of the cool kids go. It was almost like Kensington market, but a whole lot bigger, and more like an actual market. When we were leaving, thats when the snow started. From Michael's flat, we witnessnesed some young hooligans getting arrested by the cops. The teenagers here have absolutely NO respect for the cops. They were yelling, swearing, and pushing them, and when the cop cars drove off, the kids who weren't arrested were smacking, and kicking the cars as they drove off.
Monday, after not being able to get to the airport, it was still snowing, and so we walked around the city. Of course we can handle it, we're Canadians, but no one here knows how to deal with it. There were pleanty of snowmen, and people throwing snowballs at people they didn't know. Even the night before, when it had started snowing, kids were so excited by the dusting of snow on the street, that they were making snow angels in the middle of the road, and scrapping off snow from cars to toss snow in their friends faces... also saw kids throwing snow in the face of a homeless man, which wasn't very nice. We got to explore Carnaby street which was the place to be in the swinging sixties.
With my extra day here we were able to walk along the river, and see the Tower of London, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, and and interesting mix of modern buildings, beside old looking buildings.
Basically: I saw a lot. I walked a lot. My feet are sore. I had a great time here. Michael was a great host, Cameron was good company, but I am ready to leave and finally get to Israel. Potentially that will be tomorrow, I'm crossing my fingers! I will try to post pictures soon. I can try to post them on the blog, but if that doesn't work very well, then I may have to post the bulk of them on facebook. So family who doesn't have me on facebook, or doens't have facebook, we'll try to figure out a way around this issue. I miss everyone already.
Love, Elana