Our last full day in London!
We filled it up with a double-decker site-seeing tour bus and also river boat tour.
Feed the Birds . . . tuppence a bag . . . (hear Mary Poppins?)
St. Paul's Cathedral (where Charles and Diana were married). This is a spectacular building, designed by Christopher Wren. It is an active cathedral, with 5 services a day, yet they charge 10 pounds a person (about $18) to see inside and there is no photography allowed at all. They want you to buy the pictures from them. Crazy! Talk about money changers in the temples. Geesh!
At the Tower of London. This place is a whole city in and of itself. One can spend a good couple of hours here. This building is where the crown jewels are displayed. The Tower is where Royalty were beheaded and was basically a fortress, torture chamber, and prison centuries ago.
In the City of London (which is only 1 sq.mi). This is the first double-sided clock in history.
We met Matt and Kim briefly for lunch and a little shopping in Covent Gardens, then had to say good-bye! They are on their way back to Tokyo now. We'll miss you!!
Tower Bridge from the boat.
Cleopatra's Obelisk. The oldest thing standing in all of London.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Or at least the re-creation of it since the original burned down in the great fire of 1666.
The end of our boat tour. Our hotel is in the background.
We went back and took a 1 1/2 hour yoga class together, gym, and sauna! That was awesome.
Great way to end a great day!
8 comments:
Looks like you guys are having an awesome time! I am so jealous!!!!!! The kids are doing great, I took Christian to the park on Monday after school and then to our house for about 30 minutes. The boys had a blast playing and he kept talking about how grandpa lets him sleep in the family room and watch movies. He's in heaven. Brooke is quite the little mom, greeting Christian when he came home. I called to talk to your dad and Madison was put on the phone to handle the details of dropping off. You have two very capable girls! Relax and enjoy your trip, its almost over! Ugh!
The scenery you have shared is most beautiful and can feel your excitement each day. The Cathedral makes me even more grateful for our temples all over the world where the only cost for attending is obedience in following Jesus.
Catching up on your cool posts!Is
that a brother? (name Matt sounds familiar)Wait to see Wicked with me! I'll fly out to you,k? So happy
you loved your trip :)
Wow! That looked wonderful!!! One of these days! we keep banking our vacation time! I think when the kids are all out we'll be on permanant vacation! Ha
Kim is John's cousin (technically his dad's cousin, but that's too technical). Matt and Kim lived near us for the last four years, but have recently moved to Tokyo. They knew they had to be in London on business the same time we were, so we've been anxiously planning this 'meeting' for months now. So glad it all worked out!
Kim is John's cousin (technically his dad's cousin, but that's too technical). Matt and Kim lived near us for the last four years, but have recently moved to Tokyo. They knew they had to be in London on business the same time we were, so we've been anxiously planning this 'meeting' for months now. So glad it all worked out!
Post a Comment