crowds, queens and castles

 

Today was an absolutely beautiful sunny day and even though the weather report said 4 degrees, somehow the sun made it feel much warmer... Westminster Abbey was grand and ornate.

 

 

 

Just for the record, we did holiday together...

 

 

It was a perfect day for the London eye!

 

 

Caught off guard!

 Golden elegance...

 



 

Tyndale is remembered here in this park in London - an English  visionary committed to having the Bible translated into the language of the people. For this he was persecuted and eventually captured and executed in Belgium. His last words were "Lord open the eyes of the King of England"...

 

The history of this obelisk along the river Thames was AMAZING! Could Rameses the Great have been Pharaoh at the time the Israelites were in Egypt???

 

 

 

 

Lunch in a green space away from the crowds...

 

 

 

Hamleys was a 7 level high mad, huge and overwhelmingly crowded toy shop filled with multitudes of excited children and stressed out, overheated parents. Our main aim was to find a toilet before expiring (finally success on the 5th floor) and exit ASAP with the same number of children we entered with (preferably the same ones). We found our queen of Lego and her corgi on the upper level overseeing the madness... always with a smile!     

 

Annie, Isaac and Bethany enjoyed watching a Tottenham and Crystal Palace football game in the afternoon at Whiteheart Lane. When asked to described the game they used words such as: loud, crowded, full, good football, loud, cold, loud, busy, green, loud...