We got to London and immediately took the advice of friends and hit the town. We stayed near Westminster Park (Bayswater tube station) and hit the Duck Boat Tour to Westminster Abbey –which we visited the day it was announced that William would probably be getting married there-we tried to see as much as we could.
Gavin joined me on the London Dungeon Tour and it was pretty scary - he was proud to have lived through it! Meanwhile, Liz, Brock and Nate hit the markets. We went a little overboard on the half price West End plays - with different combinations of us seeing Oliver, Billy Elliot and what I believe is a new release - Les Miserables (which I loved even more than Cats when I saw it last year). The boys loved seeing so much theater in such a short time and it was a real treat to see the shows in some of London's most beautiful houses.
Liz, Brock and Nate went to the changing of the Guards-the rest of us would’ve liked to have gone but Liz wouldn’t wait for us to tie our shoes… The boys spent 3 afternoons at the Science Museum next to the Natural History Museum and I especially loved the Imperial War Museum-which did a great job depicting life in Britain during WW2 from a kid’s perspective. Ate a lot of greasy fish and chips and drank a couple of pints and had our first Chinese food since our trip began-only I stood up and knocked my head into some antique lamp which shattered all over the restaurant-I covered my head, more out of shame than pain and waited for the shrieking to end. As we were packing on the final day-Liz saw that the new Harry Potter Movie was opening and assumed lines would be around the block-we were all surprised when the boys went to the 9AM show and the place only had ten other people in it! The weather was crisp but clear and it made for a wonderful backdrop in a great city.
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