London July 2008

I was so excited to finally travel to London this month. Burke had to go for work (the majority of Russian funds lawyers are based in London) and we tagged along. It is so great to be able to get to another country in Europe in three hours. We arrived on the evening of Tuesday, July 15th.

Wednesday's Itinerary:

• Go to work with Burke and see the office. It had a great view of the city. We left him here to work for the day while we went off on our adventure.
  
• Get money, we had difficulty with this, of course.
• Go to the London Museum
• Visit the London Wall
• Go to St. Paul's Cathedral, WHERE WE SAW THE QUEEN!!! In the picture below, she is in white next to the black car.
  

• Cross Millennium Bridge
• Go to the Tate Modern
• Eat lunch at Founder's Arms

• Go on the London Eye and get pictures of Parliament from above.
  

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• See funny looking policeman who so kindly stopped a cab for us to get back to the apartment.
  

• Head back to the apartment we were in the for the we because we were tired.
  

Thursday's Itinerary

• Walk along the Thames to see the Tower Bridge

• Go to the Tower of London. I have recently developed a major obsession with the Tudor time period, so I was very excited to see all the history at the Tower. We also saw White Tower, the crown jewels, and the memorial for the general area where all the beheadings took place.
  

Traitor's Gate...

• After the Tower were hungry and tired, so we ate and went back to the apartment.

Friday's Itinerary:

• Go to the British Museum, see the Rosetta Stone and mummies.

• Go to the Science Museum
• Eat lunch in Kensington
• Walk to Hyde Park and find a play ground. Merrick needed to get out of the stroller!
• Go back the apartment, once again we were tired from all the walking. We walked most of the way around London, only taking a taxi a few times.
  

Saturday's Itinerary:

• Burke was finally with us on Saturday, so we followed much of the same itinerary as Wednesday so he could see some sights. From Parliament we continued on to St. James' garden and then on to Buckingham Palace.

And then to Trafalgar's Square and the National Museum

• We then walked to Covent Garden and then took a boat ride to Shakespeare's Globe. From there we walked to the Tower Bridge from the other side of the Thames and showed Burke the Tower of London.

WE LOVED LONDON!!!