So, as you can see by the pics, it was a rainy day in London today. We did a city tour with our guide, Jan, who was awesome! We toured around the city a bit, and made a pit stop at St. Paul's Cathedral.
Since it's Sunday, the Cathedral is closed, but the gift shop was open, as well as the coffee bar - nothing like a good hot cup-o-joe to warm the body!
We then made our way around Parliament Square to see Big Ben, Parliament & Westminster - hopped off the coach and made our way towards Buckingham. Since it was rainy, there was no pomp & circumstance for the changing of the guard, so we made our way to Hard Rock for lunch (sorry Bob!). Sadly the wait was long, so we went next door to an authentic English Pub for Fish & Chips.
Afterwards, we toured Tower of London and got to see the Crown Jewels - gorgeous!!! Saw where Anne Boelyn was beheaded - some kids went into the Torture Chamber to check it out. Saw Traitors Gate as well as the Tower Bridge. Dinner was Japanese - since London is such a ecclectic mix of cultures, that's been reflected in our food. Good stuff!
After dinner, we did a Jack the Ripper night walk - fascinating! Saw where 5 'ladies' were murdered and heard the gruesome stories...wow! We then headed back out to our hotel via the Underground & train system. The kids are quite adept at using the Tube!!
Upon our arrival at our hotel, we were greeted with a lovely purple suitcase!!! YEAH!!! Kathryn's luggage didn't want to go from Atlanta to Paris to London with the rest of us and took a detour thru LAX and Detroit - craziness!!
Upon our arrival at our hotel, we were greeted with a lovely purple suitcase!!! YEAH!!! Kathryn's luggage didn't want to go from Atlanta to Paris to London with the rest of us and took a detour thru LAX and Detroit - craziness!!
Even after a long day of walking in the rain & the cold, the kids mustered enough energy to run (seriously, they did!) to the BP store for goodies! In our hotel is a Ben & Jerry's ice cream machine, but we went for the good stuff today - Magnum bars...sigh...yummy!!! Kylie is modeling all her European goodies from the yummy Magnum bar to the Bueno bar - good stuff!!
As you can see from their shining faces below, they loved the Magnum bars!!
So there ends Day 3 - wet & cold & eating ice cream - loving every minute!
Tomorrow takes us out of London to Stonehenge & Bath...and hopefully better weather!
Ciao ~ steph :)
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