Realizing it was two weeks ago since this trip, I figured I should update on it. London was a blast. It was great to be there with my parents and sister. As you may recall I was there back at the beginning of my trip here in the UK so I was familiar enough with the underground and how to get around town. The best part was that we only overlapped a few things that I did the first time. Starting Friday when we got there, we checked into our hotel down the street from Victoria Station in the theater district. First stop was at the 700 year old Westminster Abby. It was huuge! Needless to say it was also quite beautiful and ornate.
Saturday started off with the Tower of London. It is actually not one tower but lots of towers to make up a castle. The main attraction in the center tower is the crown jewels. There are no words for what these look like. To view them you must line up on a big conveyor belt and it gives you a little drive by of the glass case the jewels are in. Lucky for us there weren’t many people so we went around a few times. We then headed for the river where we took a boat tour down the Thames River through the middle of London. We then jumped on an open top, double decker bus and headed to Madam Tussauds wax museum. In two days, it was the first place I repeated anything from my first trip. It was still so neat. Seeing it for the second time gave me the chance to really take all the detail in. I remember the first time there was very overwhelming trying to look at every person… especially with a group of other kids wanting to move on to the next thing! Saturday night we took a ride on the London Eye. Its a giant ferris wheel in that overlooks the town. Each pod is so big it carry up to 20 people in it! Our final stop of the evening was at this very nice, very very good Indian restaurant. I had never had Indian food before so I was in for a great treat. It was so good! Im just glad Im an adventurous eater.
Sunday we got up early and got a place in front of Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of the guards. What an incredible amount of fanfare. It was extremely crowded but definitely worth sticking around to watch. The music was great and what we could see of the ceremony was very interesting. A lot of people walking around pretty much. Next stop was the Queens Gallery. It was very interesting and most notably extravagantly elegant. Everything was gold this or eight hundred years old that. Although it was neat, my favorite thing we saw was the Royal Mews. This is where all of the horse drawn carriages are kept. We saw the wedding carriage, my favorite, the scottish carriage used when the queen is in edinburgh and the every day carriage…. Ya, she has an everyday carriage! We then headed to St. Pauls cathedral where we went for a early afternoon service then headed for an early dinner as our final hurrah as a family. After dinner was a quick pack job for me and then I said my goodbyes and headed off to catch a train to the airport. It was so great to see them I was sad to leave but in only a few short weeks I knew Id be seeing them again.
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