Day 2

July 4, 2007- London

Walked through Hyde Park
Went on the City Red Bus Tour
First stop: London Eye. So pretty how we could see the whole London.
Went back on the Red Bus to go to the Tower of London. We saw Tower of Tourture, Bloody Tower, THE CROWN JEWELS!, and much more others
We ate PAULS, a very good pastries place. I had a blueberry tart and dad had a almond pastry. His was better.
Then we waited for 30 min. to take the River Cruise back to the London Eye station. We saw the replica of the Shakespeare Globe and a really cool looking hotel. I slept the rest of the way.
When we came back, we headed down to see parliament building and Big Ben. We got there around 5:04 so we missed the bells of the clock when it strikes the hour.
Then we went to Buckingham Palace. The gates are gorgeous! And the palace is very big and pretty. But there were a whole lot of people there. Then we walked through a street where the guards walk down during the changing of the guards, and it was full of UK flags. It was pretty. Then Dad showed me where the guards live and station. Not much there. It was about 6:30. Then we went to go eat dinner next to our musical. We ate at restaurant that I forgot the name of. It was a seafood restaurant. All over the menu and place mat. It kept on saying that all their fish were not harmed while catching and how there are no hormones or anything. Pretty funny. I ordered a fish fillet. It was pretty good.
Then we went to go see The Drowsy Chaperone. It was short (like 1.5 hours) because there was no intermission. I really enjoyed it, the narrator that narrated the musical was really funny, and a lot of funny, twisted scenes. Dad fell asleep in the beginning.
When we started heading out, we heard booming noises. Everyone in the theatre thought it was thunderstorm-ing outside, but instead there were fireworks going on. I find it quite ironic how the US broke away from Britain to gain our independence, and the British are celebrating it with fireworks? Wrong country England. After we got out of the theatre, it was almost over. We only saw about 5 minutes of it. Then Dad wanted to take one of the old fashion taxis, so we got one. Dad & I, and the driver, had a really cool conversation. The taxi was really high! It’s because in the old days, men had top hats and because the taxi ceiling was so low, they had to take it off. So they made the ceiling higher in the taxi. Pretty cool. We got to the hotel back pretty early, around 9:45-10:00ish. So we basically had nothing to do. We watched TV and rested our feet. Then we went to sleep at around 2 a.m because we were watching a movie with Sam Seaborn and Luke Wilson about keeping a copying business alive.

I WANT A 99 PENCE LONDON BEAR!