London - day 4

We had a difficult time deciding what we were gonna do today. It is our last day and there is still SO many things we haven't done. We finally made the decision that four things in one day was do-able. So on the bill was 1) Natural History Museum, 2) Beatles Store, 3) Tate Modern, and 4) The British Museum - all before 6pm. It did not exactly work out that way.
As it turns out I LOVE dinosaurs and skeletons and fossils...we spent 3hrs in the Natural History Museum, and we didn't see it all. Then we spent one hour in the Beatles store, then a quick lunch (the first horrible one we've had-mcDonalds is about 100% better than what we had for lunch), i made my starbuck's purchases, then we dropped off the things we had purchased and realized that we only had time for one more place. We chose the British Museum because we REALLY wanted to see the Rosetta Stone. Once we finally got there we had a slightly difficult time locating the stone (about 3-5minutes) then there it was...and there was the guard telling us that they close the exhibits at 5:30 not 6 and we have to leave. I begged for time to take a pic (of course the flash glared off the anti-glare glass) and then we left without even getting to read the info next to the stone. BUT we still saw stand it was still cool.
Then off to dinner (much better than lunch) and a show. We saw "Love Never Dies" the sequal to Phantom of the Opera. It was good, but no where near up to par with Phantom. The actors were fabulous but the show was just not as good.
Stratford-upon-Avon is next. Renting a car is on Friday (wish me luck).

London - day 3

We went to Westminster Abbey this morning. It is gorgeous! And so exciting all of the history that lives inside the church. They also had all of the visitors and everyone else pause to pray once while we were there-I loved that.
Then we got ever so slightly lost on our way to the Beatles/Rock tour. Once we found it we ate lunch (mcDonald's, as there was not really time for anything else). The tour was great, we learned SO much. AND we got to walk across Abbey Road:).
Oh and before the tour we had a little bit of time to spare, due to the fast lunch, and we went to a store where Olivia found a hat like Joey's from friends.
Tonight we went to see "Million-Dollar Quartet." It was amazing!! I can't believe how good those guys did! It was also great fun that the gentleman that played Carl Perkins was quite talented and attractive:).
I think a fun day was had by all!

London -day 2

The first place we went today was, guess where????
That's right, Starbucks!
Yummmmmm!
I have not purchased my mugs yet - but I will...don't worry:)
Next we took the tube to Paddington Station, then trains to Slough, and on to Windsor Castle.

We walked all around and it was way cool.
The castle is basically it's own town.
Queen Mary's Dollhouse was awesome.
It was way bigger than I thought it would be and incredibly detailed.
We went into St George's Cathedral inside the Windsor castle grounds - it was beautiful!
King Henry the 8th is buried there. I bought a hysterical book about him:)

The whole castle thing took lots longer than we thought it would (like most things we do) and by the time we got back to London everything was closing. They close down so much earlier than we do in America. It is super annoying.
However, we went and got half price tickets to see one show for every night we have left (since everything else closes early). We saw "We Will Rock You" tonight. It was so good! It is a musical where they sing the music of Queen and a few songs they wrote too (well Ben Elton wrote). The musical was so funny I was literally laughing out loud for pretty much the whole thing - except for when that girl next to me not only pulled out her phone twice at the beginning of the show to look at it but also answered it. I tattled on her during intermission. Yep. I am now four-years-old:).
I can't wait for tomorrow! I just wish I didn't have to get up SO early (as I type this at 1:20am).
Yay, London!!

London -day one

So the Holiday Inn by the airport is amazing! We forgot what real hotels were like, and this one was even nicer than that;). We took the tube to our hotel in central London. Dropped off our things, stood in awe at the niceness of our room, jumped for joy like a crazy person because there was Internet in our room (at least I did, Olivia thought I was nuts), then set out on our first London adventure. We took a tour of the Royal Albert Hall, walked through Hyde park, made our way to Big Ben and parliament, crossing Westminster bridge to get to the London Eye (which is a little scary if you are afraid of heights like me, and then we got lost on our way to Picadilly Circus-I was holding the map, and then again on the way to the Hard Rock Cafe London - Olivia was holding the map...
We had a blast. Can't wait to see what today brings.