Last night since we were so tired we went to bed around 8pm. He time adjustment has been very difficult for me. We both woke up around 2am and were awake for a couple hours. I then put my earplugs in managed to sleep until 10:30. Jake had to wake me up by saying my name over and over. We planned to watch the changing of the guards today at Buckingham Palace at 11:30 so we had to hurry up and get ready to go. When we got there we overheard someone talking about the queen coming out so we figured that the changing of the guard must not happen today but since we were there we might as well stay. I wanted to take a picture of her but I didn’t know if there would be multiple cars and if there was I didn’t know which one she would be in. So when the first car passed I snapped a picture. Luckily that was her car and I got a pretty good shot of her in the backseat. Very cool!!
We then headed over to buy our Eurostar tickets to Paris. The guy at the counter asked if we wanted round trip tickets and since he said they would be cheaper we agreed and bought the tickets. We then stopped to make sure everything on it was right and realized that we weren’t planning on going back to London from Paris. We planned to return to London from Brussels so we went back up to the counter hoping they could change it and luckily they did it with no extra charge. That is scary though. If we hadn’t noticed that we probably wouldn’t have noticed until it was time to come back and our tickets were from the wrong city. That would have really sucked.
After that we got back on the tube and went over to Westminster Pier to catch the sightseeing tour boat to the Tower of London. The ride was about 20 minutes and when we pulled up to this huge castle I was surprised. I always thought that the Tower of London was one big tower not a huge castle. It was pretty cool! We took the guided tour and got the hear details about everywhere we went. After that we took the tube back and walked through the Holocaust Exhibit at the Imperial War Museum. It also had different war planes and bombs. We didn’t have much time for that since it was closing soon.
After we left the war museum we took the tube back to our neighborhood and set out to find dinner. That took way to long!! My feet hurt, my back hurts, I was hungry and I really needed a restroom. We ended up at the little store right by our place after much walking. We picked out some soup and bought breakfast and lunch for tomorrow. We came home, ate, took showers and here I sit writing about my day. Tomorrow it is off to Paris. We get to sleep in too since our train doesn’t leave until 1:30. I’m kind of nervous about the rest of our trip. Here everyone speaks English and signs are in English. From now on we’ll be on our own.
