London, I love thee

This Saturday we went to London for the first time. I can already tell that we are going to keep coming back again and again, London has so much history and it's such a beautiful city.

We took the Big Tour Bus.. so that we could see the whole city from the double decker point of view. We were able to get off and on the bus as much as we wanted the whole day. Next time we will be coming on our own (gotta figure out that whole Tube thing). But here are some of the pictures we took and I wish I could remember everything I learned, but we've decided that the next trip we'll explore certain sections of the city. So there will be a lot more post of London in the future.

Our bus tour started on Baker St. This is a famous street because Sherlock Holmes lived on Baker Street, 221B to be exact. That statue in this picture is of Sherlock Holmes.  Putting this on the list of things to get better pictures of.

This is All Souls it's a church in London and the BBC building is right next to it. I've seen this building on TV before, it's been in the background when during British journalist reports.

 



This is Oxford Street, If you want to do some shopping... this is your street. Late in the afternoon there were so many people here that our bus was redirected.

I love the taxi's

Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus.

 

This is her majesty's theater 

Trafalgar square, I hope to be here on New Years eve.

 

Hope to come next time and get on the lions at the square

Admiralty Arch- This is really just a walkway and driveway between the Mall and the Trafalgar Square. It's so beautiful in person. There is supposedly a nose in the wall, well more like a protrusion in the shape of a human nose but it's about 7 feet high. It's rumored to be Napoleon's Nose. I'll have to try and find it next time we go.

 



Big Ben.. It always makes me think of National European Vacation with Chevy Chase trying to get to it from a roundabout.

 



 

 

So blessed that my kids are able to travel with us and see the world. My kids will never be able to say that we didn't do anything with them, or take them anywhere.

The London Eye is massive and it only travels at about 1 mph. It cost approximately $30 to ride. And the wait is about an hour long. The tour guide said the London Eye makes about £100,000 a day.

This is tower Bridge and it's located near Tower of London. We took a ferry on the Thames River

That is the Tower of London and we didn't have to time to go in this time. But we are going to buy tickets and come back. This is where King Henry VIII had some of his wives killed.

Westminster Abbey is massive, look at how little the people look at the bottom. We were in a hurry to get back on our tour bus and make our way back that I had to take this picture as we were walking by.