First, after making out way out the door, we went to the Tower of London. We chose the wrong line to get in because there was a very complicated transactions taking place ahead of us. Finally we made it through the gates.
We watched a presentation of The Knights Tale in the moat, did a Yeoman Warder tour of the place, and then went to see the Crown Jewels. More lines. We ended up between two parts of a German tour group. Behind us was a school group from Spain who all realized that if they tried hard enough they could make loud shoe squeaks in the tower with the Crown Jewels. Very loud. I thought about saying that I was American and therefore prone to irrational violence, but figured it would be a bad idea to get kicked out of England.
Today was the day with the special ceremony where the military comes to pay the rents. I did not pick up the details, but it involves a band and many people marching in uniform carrying a wooden cask.
And the cask.
And more people in uniform.
It was a fun time all arround. It was also good cardio because every time we got above up the stairs we had to go back down to find a bathroom.
Then off to the London Eye.
It is big. We stood in two very long lines - on to get tickets and one to get onto the eye. We also had to muscle past two different take-your-picture-try-to-make-you-buy-it things. We survived entact and with no bad pictures.
It is quite a view.
We then went to a playground that we found when we were scanning the area from above.
And a tube ride back to the flat. There were many fancy people on the tube heading to an event at Wembly. We were not fancy at all, but had a very fine day indeed.
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