Four times' a charm

I have seen Big Ben four times since I moved to London. Everytime its been a drive-by with bus... So I have never actually stood by Big Ben to take pictures and stuff, you know. Total dissappointment btw... Big Ben is much.. less, then I imagined. Smaller and not as impressive. Dint, get me wrong, it is very pretty, and big. But ot as big as I imagined.