London day one

We arrived in London today...a crazy city! Got to our apartment, nice place, I think, but Dad's pull out bed has a bit to be desired. We are close the the Tube station and decided to give it a whirl on our first night. But, first we went to the British Museum and it was so close we could walk. We saw amazing things there: artifacts from one of the earliest cities named Ur, artifacts from Pompeii, many mummies, and statues from Egypt. We seemed to get tired very quickly. After that we headed to dinner at a nearby pub that was built in 1540. That was only 4 years after Anne Boleyn was executed! We all had fish and chips...a whole fish deep fried. It was good, but once was good enough. The beer...keep it coming!






We decided to take the underground to the Tower of London for the Ceremony of Keys. It is the ceremony of the closing and locking of the Tower. It has been going on for 700 years without fail, except it was late on the night bombs hit the Tower during WWII. We learned a lot of interesting things about the guards and it was really cool to be in the in the Tower at night when it is closed to tourists. We got special tickets months ago.






Taking the Tube was ...um..interesting. Hoards of people everywhere, stairs up and down, escalators up and down, crowded trains where you have to stand, and very jerky trains; amazing that Dad at his age could deal with all that after a long day and getting home at almost 11:00. And amazing we could figure it all out at night on our first night!

We were tired and were off to bed as soon as we could get there.






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