As Promised

Starting off the weekend right by having a cup of tea, sitting in the rocking chair by the fireplace in our quaint little hotel room.

There is just no way to capture the enormity of the British Museum. Like I said, we walked by it a couple times every day and it was just astounding every time. We never got over the size of the building.

Statue outside of the British Library

The Old Vic theatre where we enjoyed a fantastic show of Cinderella

Sunday begins, as do they requisite, uber-touristy, photos. Little Ellen. Big Ben.

Two girls on my program, Nikki and Laura, with Big Ben and Parliament from the other side of the building.

Westminster Abbey. It is definitely on my list to go into this building sometime soon. Once again, like so many buildings in London, just incredible to look at.

Why hello Gordon Brown, would you like to come out and play? Number 10 Downing Street. Heavily guarded by some pretty serious looking police.

The back of the Cavalry building where the Queen has a lot of military exhibitions and displays (like for her birthday)

Buckingham Palace and the changing of the guards. The old guards come in. Sadly, it's winter so they are in their winter grey coats instead of the well known red ones. Oh well.

After a mad dash down the road, we grab a place on the other end of the street to see the new guard come in. Led by this guy with a envious gold suit. Real gold, of course. Why have a gold suit if it's faux?

New guards go marching by.

One of the many statues of Queen Victoria hanging around London. Apparently this statue had her nose broken off at one point, and so they had to replace it. But it doesn't particularly blend well with the rest of the statue and as they day goes on, her nose gets whiter while the rest of her stays the same.

Buckingham Palace. Pretty nice digs.

A much more slender Victoria, outside of Kensington Palace.

The Orangery at Kensington Palace. Very delicious tea, and it was in this beautiful long hallway. Beautiful palace, really (although, have you ever seen an ugly palace?).

Laura and I outside, what we decided, would be our new home. Feel free, QEII, to give us accomodation here.

Peek-a-boo! Hello St. Paul's!

One of my million and a half pictures of St. Paul's. This is another thing on my list to go back to the next time I'm in London.

The Millenium Bridge and St. Paul's from across the Thames.

Ah! St. Paul's look out you are about to be attacked by a giant spider! Giant spider outside of the Tate Modern.

Giant crack inside the Tate Modern.

Eh. The Globe. Like I said, not very impressive or exciting.

After crossing Tower Bridge. Part of the bridge and part of the Tower. As you can tell, the sun has since set and we're still walking around. That is dedication.

The three of us who stuck out the entire 9 hours, without coming or going. Laura, myself and Jamie (WashU at SOAS). Angie's loyal followers as we called ourselves.

The Tower! (Another thing on the list)

The Australia House where they filmed Gringott's Bank. Jamie, Laura and I decided that our new life goal was to have our own personal Harry Potter tour company that led tours on a big bus that we would call the Knight Bus. And no, it's not snowing, the light from my flash is just reflecting off the rain.

Around Christmas the Somerset House has this massive, really cool outdoor skating rink and it's still up. It has all these tourches lighting the boundary and was really fantastic looking. It'll probably only be up for another week or so, so I won't get to experience it, but I wish I could.

The End!