Are you ready to straddle two hemispheres??

After picking up my two History classes (Britain & the Wider World and Slavery in the Classical World) Friday morning and attending the Freshers Fayre (student activities fair to encourage the first year students to join clubs), a group of us decided to go to Greenwich. And what a day we decided to go. It was sunny all day and hovered around a warm 70 the entire day.

To get there we either could have taken a bus or a boat. We opted for the boat and caught it right near the London Eye. Here are a few pictures:

Right in front of the eye there is a huge park around 6-7 acres. When we went it was filled with businessmen on their lunch break, tourists and street performers. Make sure you see Big Ben and Parliment in the background.

Greenwich is pretty far away it seems, but once we got there, it was awesome. The town was pretty small and cute, but the observatory was built on a huge hill overlooking the city of London. Once we struggled our way up the small mountain, we were taken away. It was really breathtaking and beautiful. You could see so much. Here is a picture:

In case you were wondering, right beyond the main field is the Old Royal Naval College.

Once we got to the top, we could see the line. As we cautiously approached it, we wondered the consquences of our mental state would be. This is the picture of me as I put my foot down:
And right after:

Turns out the West is the same as the Eastern Hemisphere. Who would have thunk that??

Besides straddling the line. Greenwich offered many great things such as a Ferris wheel, two great museums (one dedicated to figuring out Longitude & a Naval Museum) and a planetarium. At the planetarium they had a meteorite that is very old (4.5 billion years) and probably very dirty, check out this picture for proof:

After heading down the hill, we went into the Naval Museum for a few minutes but not that long (it was a long day). We eventually got on the boat and went home to grab some food. I did snap these pictures right after getting off the boat near the Ferris Wheel: