London! pt2

So, last Thursday, while you were all stuffing yourselves with turkey (well, it was actually probably a bit before that. But that is besides the point) I was gallivanting around London with my lovely family. Yay for gallivanting!

Here are some pictures from my travels:

First off, we went back to Big Ben. We saw it at night, but then my brother said none of his pictures turned out, so we went back during the day so we could get better pictures. So, here's mine. :D

And, on the opposite side of the Themes from Big Ben is the Eye. So, I got a good picture of it. I still like it at night though. But we'll get there later. :D

Then we walked down the street by Westminster Abbey, so of course I had to get a picture of it. I mean, this stuff's COOL. :D

And then it stopped raining, and there was a rainbow. This was the best picture I got of it. But hey, I saw a rainbow in London. Which is awesome. According to me at least. Which is what matters, right?

Then we kept walking, and here we are, Nelson's Column at Trafalgar Square. Which is cool. It's a giant roundabout, which wrecks havoc for all of the pedestrians. But hey, none of us got ran over. :D Oh, and I did climb up onto one of the lions that guard the column, but the picture's on my mums camera. Oh well, maybe one day I'll post it.

Then we took the tube to Bakers Street, and found this. :D It's Sherlock Holmes!

And this is where he 'lived'. Except he didn't, as we pointed out to my mum, when she started talking about how we could look him up in census records to see if he really lived there. Silly mum. :D

St. Paul's Cathedral! This place is awesome. I wish we could have had time to go in, but next time. At least I saw it, right? I also sat on the steps and got a photo, but again it's trapped on mum's computer. Poor pictures of me. I'll just have to do another blog post. ;)

Here's another one of St. Paul's. As we walk towards the river. It's an awesome dome.

And on the other side of the river is...the Globe Theatre! Again, I wish we could have gone in but we had no time. We had an appointment at 4:30, and we were going to walk the whole way. :D

The appointment was at the Eye! At night! I was excited. Because it's all cool and lit up, and the city's all lights, and I get to go all high and see it. Woot! Here's a picture of a capsule that you ride in. These things are HUGE. They fit like, at least 15 or 20 people maybe. It's cool. They're all glass, except for one big bench in the middle. Most people spend the whole time standing up though.

Behold! The City! (well, some of it at least...)

The Capsule at the top. Not ours, of course. Although it would be cool if I did get a picture of our capsule. It's just not possible people. I'm cool, but not THAT cool.

Big Ben! Parliament! River! Lights!

This is looking in at the centre of the Eye. on the right are the support beams that keep it up. It's really an awesome thing. If you're ever in London, you should try to do it at least once. But do it at night, it's cooler that way. Also: bring a REALLY nice camera. Mine just wasn't nice enough. Most of the pictures turned out blurry. No, change that: all of the pictures ended up blurry. Which was sad. But it was still cool.

So, that was my trip. Well, we did stop for lunch at the pub, and I got a falafel burger. Because of Liz. And, it tastes good. And half my brothers got Big Ben burgers, so I had to do something different. Because that's the way I am. Also: I don't like fish, so I couldn't get fish & chips.

So, I love chips. I'm going to miss them. Good thing I have two more weeks to enjoy them!

Miss you all, from across the pond.