Tuesday..

Well today the weather was a little better so we started off the morning with a visit to the Tower of London. The inner part of the tower was built by William the Conqueror way back in the 11th century but most of the medieval and early modern monarchs lived her. Elizabeth was imprisoned here during her sister's reign when Mary thought she was trying to conspire against her.

We saw the spot where they beheaded Anne Boleyn and where her bones are in the church under the altar. The Yeoman warders kind of run the place, often called Beefeaters and ours was a great guide and great story teller. Here's us at the Tower.



This is a picture of what is called the White Tower as it was originally white washed on the outside and looked white. It had tons of medieval armor and swords. We saw Henry the VIII's armor. We also saw the crown jewels of England. Very impressive. Then we had some lunch at the Tower and looked around a bit more.


IF you look really hard in the picture above there are little black slits just to the top left of the middle row of windows. Those are little holes that originally emptied the toilets of the guards. The toliets were called Garderrobes and were mainly a hole in the floor that lead to a little slide that emptied out those slits in the building.

This is a picture of me sitting where many a guard must have had some really deep thoughts. Just think of those people walking around the buildings when there was a real possibility that you could be hit by your friends poop. They actually had a little wall built to try to contain the waste. We have come a long way.


Then we went to Harrods. It was a bit overwhelming with 1000000 square feet of retail space. Here's a pic.


We bought Eliza a Paddington Bear at Harrods. I am so excited. We have her many little Paddington Bear books to go with it. You can't buy these in the states.



Then to top off the evening we had a great supper in an Italian restaurant. And then went to see Spamalot. it is a musical adaptation of Monty Python Holy Grail. But it had plenty of new twists and turns and was so hilarious. We had so much fun. This is a picture of the Palace theatre. THere is nothing like seeing a show in London. The crowds are so pumped up and laugh and clap so well.




Tomorrow we take an early train to Edingburgh Scotland. I might not post for a few days. Cheers.