Third day in London! I'm very glad that London is a little more internet-friendly than Amsterdam... there are internet cafes everywhere. Today we woke up bright and early and headed to the London Tower. It was very cool, it was the Buckingham Palace of back in the day, but it's most interesting and talked-about history all involves executions. We had a great tour guide who was very excited about telling us all about the executions, from Henry the Eighth's many wives, to Lady Jane Grey (the almost queen at age 16... before she was beheaded), to the infamous GUY FAWKES. Some of the descriptions were pretty gruesome but very interesting.
After that we headed to this cool noodle place for lunch, yum! Then, we trekked over to Trafalger Square to visit the National Gallery. Meredith and I got bored after a while and it brought us here. Mom is still looking at all the paintings! There's so many of them, but my favorites were the Van Gogh Sunflowers and Leonardo DaVinci's Virgin on the Rocks, which is incidentally, not a fruity drink. The cool thing about the DaVinci is that really recently they discovered with infared cameras that DaVinci originally had Mary holding Baby Jesus, but for some reason he changed it. Interesting stuff!
Okay, now Meredith and I are going to go shopping for a bit and then we're going to head over to the Duke of York Theater to see Little Shop of Horrors! Bye!!
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