You know you're (an American) in London when...

1. You haven't seen the sun since you stepped off the plane. Sounds cliche, but it's true!
2. A group of men (often Irish) are so drunk they're singing in the streets... at 5 pm on a Tuesday.
3. Security guards tell you to unzip your bag, then don't even look inside it (hooray for less paranoia about terrorism!)
4. Your co-workers ask "Are you all right?" instead of "How are you?" It always throws me off... I think I must look a mess or something.
5. Restaraunts and cafes provide free, trashy tabloids! Awesome.
6. Bathrooms are up or down a flight of stairs.
7. You can't understand a word they're saying over the PA on the tube, then realize whatever they said wasn't important at all.
8. Your bedroom is the size of your closet in the U.S.
9. No one understands what you mean when you ask to "split a check," yet somehow, they always end up doing it...
10. Children are even cuter simply because they say "mummy."
11. The tube is packed but completely silent... except for 2 tourists barking loudly. Usually, you're one of them.
12. No one moves out of the way when walking down the sidewalk, even if they're three centimeters from bumping into you.
13. You couldn't believe how cheap something was, then realized you'd forgotten it's pounds, not dollars.
14. Starbucks tastes twice as good. Kit Kat bars taste like Godiva.
15. You're offered so much tea so often, you spend half the workday in the "loo."
16. Tea has milk in it?
17. You've eaten more Indian food than traditional British food.
18. Everything in the grocery store is tiny! 1 jar of peanut butter lasted me exactly 5 sandwiches.
19. Everyone around you knows more about American politics than you do. Sad.
20. You've actually lost a few pounds simply because you walk 3 times as much as you did in the States.

So I didn't go to the Tower of London today because they don't have the tickets yet. I'm gonna go with Emily on Saturday. Since I had Monday off anyway, I went to the Natural History Museum. It was okay. I mostly looked at the dinosaurs.

Cheers, mates!
Rebecca