"Cutty Sark" and a quikie tour

The Sphinx
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The next morning we woke up and couldn't figure out how the hell to get to land. It was super low tide so the marina was still closed and Sunday so all the docks were closed as well. One expedition to the edge of the Thames proved unsuccessful after it was determined (through trial-and-error) that the mud on the riverbank was knee-deep and thus impossible to walk through. A few of us eventually found a dock with a fence that was tall enough to scale and headed out to see a part of the city.

Buckingham Palace
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We walked around and hit up the major sites without being able to go into any of them due to my stinginess and the high prices. We must've walked a few miles cuz by the time we got back to the boat to move it into the marina, I was dead tired.

We eventually made it to Hyde Park and sat down to enjoy the rest of our alcoholic beverages and tell a few off-color jokes.

After the boat was safely docked--which took a good couple of hours--we headed back out with a few beers in our backpacks in search of the perfect place to drink them. Since we were on a tallship, we figured we had to see the legendary "Cutty Sark", the last surviving tea clipper, which has been sitting in a dry dock for a while now. So we hopped a train, took a tour, followed by a much-deserved beer break, and then made it over to Greenwich.

"Cutty Sark"
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After all that, we eventually made it to Hyde Park and sat down to enjoy the rest of our alcoholic beverages and tell a few off-color jokes. On our way back to the boat, by way of Buckingham Palace, some of the boys decided they needed to pee. So where else, but in the Royal Gardens? And thus I was initiated into the wonders of public urination whose traditions (as some of you know) have been continued on campus and beyond.

After all was said and done, we headed back towards the Tower Bridge, near where we were docked, and hit up Big Ben. We tried to call a taxi, but decided it wasn't worth the cash and instead walked in the rain back to the boat. More festivities followed below-decks into the late evening.