The first thing we did Sunday morning was head to Buckingham palace for the changing of the guards. It was really neat, but hard to see too much because there was about one million people there to watch it, but we got some pretty good pictures. It's quite a bit different from what the changing of the guards is like at Arlington (or at least what I remember of it) that I saw in 8th grade.
The fluffy hat men!!
'They came our way slowly in groups of 2.
I really wish I understood more about the ceremony...
mmm...a museum that we didn't go to but looked really cool.
more of the same museum.
We did however go to the science museum and it was sweet!!
Some particle separater thing.
A dress made of old newspaper.
me and Amber's art. (we were playing in the little kid area....)
Cochroach people? haha it was really weird...both the adults and young children were dressed up. no idea why.
A pretty park that me and Amber sat down in after we got really frustrated with trying to figure out where the heck we were going for the 10 millionth time. However, after being frustrated we had an epiphany that it was the first time either of us had ever tried to navigate a huge city by ourselves and we hadn't really gotten lost yet and we'd followed our itinerary fairly closely, so we were really doing alright.
"Mind the gap"
The underground. Easier and faster to get around the city then with the buses, but you don't get to see the city then and you have to be super crammed in with a bunch of sweaty ople in a very small space. Yuck. When the underground is stopping the announcement tells you to "mind the gap" when getting off...we found it entertaining.
Yes...we're Harry Potter nerds!! We took the underground to Kings cross station to find platform 9 and three quarters. For those non-Harry Potter nerds reading this, Platform 9 3/4 at Kings cross is where the wizards go to get to Hogwarts. Of course the platform isn't a real thing (even though as you see they now have a sign for it) so we wondered around the station forever trying to find it, because we knew they had a sign for it. We were embarrassed to ask but eventually Amber got up the courage to ask and we found it. Its not actually between platforms 9 and 10 since so many people come to see it , but it was still pretty cool!
Trying to get through the wall (you have to walk through the wall to get to the Hogwarts train....)
Outside of the station.
King's Cross
Near Trafalgar Square (where a week after our trip the Harry Potter premier took place)
Such a beautiful city!!
Another view of the city (and a double decker bus)
The obligatory red phone booth picture!!
We call these "Paul pictures" Our friend Paul always takes pictures when he goes someplace to show that his feet were there, so we continue this tradition. This is our (tired) feet on the top of double decker bus!
Road close to our hostel (those colorful lights is how we knew that we were indeed on the right bus and going the correct direction)
Our last morning, Tower Bridge
View from Tower Bridge
The other side of the river from the bridge.
'After our fiasco coming to London, we wanted to get to the airport early. After checking out the tour bridge, we headed back to Liverpool station to get our bus back to the airport. We caught the bus and were on our way back to the airport. We got there supppppppppper early this time and had to sit around forever, but it was better than sprinting through the airport to catch our flight!!
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