Boy oh boy is my body tired. My legs, feet and back are all killing me. This morning we got up around 8:30 took a shower and got ready to go. If you get on the underground after 9:30 its cheaper so we grabbed breakfast which consisted of a banana, bread and jam on it. We took it over to Big Ben and ate it. Today was a total museum day. We started with Westminster Abbey which I would say was just alright. The outside was quite impressive but the inside the items displayed were way to jammed together. We did get to see where Issac Newton and Charles Darwin are buried though. After that we headed over to the war rooms and the Churchill Gallery. The war rooms were my favorite place today. It showed all the secret rooms where Churchill and his cabinet worked and lived during World War II. They said that invasion was fully expected in Britain and when they realized that it wasn’t coming the war rooms which had been occupied 24 hours a day for years was deserted. They said they just turned the lights off and left.
After that we headed to Trafalgar Square and ate lunch on the steps by the fountain. We then went to the National Gallery where we saw all sorts of famous paintings. Then over at the British Museum we saw a bunch of broken sculptures and a lot of Egyptian artifacts. The highlight of that was we got to see the actual mummied body of Cleopatra. They showed an x-ray of the mummy so you could see that it was really there.
By this time both of us were hurting so we headed back to our place and made some sandwiches for dinner. It is almost 7pm right now so we’ll just hang out here and relax so we aren’t so sore in the morning for more sightseeing. One more day left in London and we’ve almost seen everything we came here to see.
Oh, one thing is the price of things here would be good if pounds were worth the same as dollars but since 50 pence = $1.00 we have to double all the prices to see how much things are in dollars. For example there was a hotdog stand and it said the price was 2.50 which would be an ok price if that were dollars but doubling it to make $5.00 for a hotdog….come on, that is just crazy!
