The Last Day

After about 14 hours of total travel time yesterday, KJ and I arrived home.  We were greeted by our children gallivanting around the front yard.  It is very good to be home, though at the moment I feel somewhere caught in the middle between vacation and a British time zone and all the many responsibilities of home and family and the time zone of my current location.  There is a lot of settling in to be done with laundry and unpacking and catching up on school and church activities and delivering all the cookie dough that came in during our absence.  But, it's rather nice to have plenty to do.

I did take some time to go trough a few pictures from our last day in London for your viewing pleasure.  Our trip needed a proper ending.  

Sunday morning we took the Underground to this famous intersection,

where we went to this famous church.

After the service we visited a copy of Shakespeare's Globe,

where we were reminded of just how many phrases 

that man coined.  It's quite impressive.

Amazing.

We then visited London Bridge,

which is not like the original and was a bit disappointing.

What a nice concrete affair.

But maybe they just didn't want it to outshine it's near neighbor,

The Tower Bridge.

I discovered that The Tower of London was a misnomer,

considering it's a castle and not just a mere tower.

I liked this picture because, not to be too morbid,

surely there would have been a lot of crows about in yesteryear.

Not many who went into the tower left with their head

if you know what I mean.

Then we went to a now famous station,

where KJ asked directions to this now famous platform.

Unlike the attendant Harry asked, this lady could actually give us directions.

After dinner at McDonald's (such authentic British food),

and despite the fact that darkness had fallen,

we traveled to Abbey Road and set up the tripod.

Are passing cars cooler than the Beatles?

One last trek across the city brought us past the palace.

Then we boarded our train and went back to our hotel,

where we collapsed with exhaustion.