Third Big Thing: London Trip

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -Mark Twain


I just got back from a lovely week in London. I understood (nearly) everything people said, bought magazines for reasonable prices, and ate decent Mexican food. Oh yeah, and I toured 8 museums (Tate Modern, Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, British Museum, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tower of London, Science Museum & Victoria and Albert Museum) saw 2 shows (Avenue Q and The Sound of Music) and 2 churches (St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey). It was a good trip and now I need a nap.

At Trafalgar Square with the Lions. I couldn't resist. OBIC

Outside of Buck House (Buckingham Palace).
Mom said she compared her life to Princess Di's because they got married around the same time and had their first children at the same time. She even told me once she imagined I would marry Prince William and perhaps live here.
Sorry to disappoint you, Mom, but not gonna happen.

I stayed with Laura for the first three nights, and knowing my bad sense of direction, when I went to explore her neighborhood I took pictures as my bread crumbs.
They came in handy later.

My beefeater tourguide. Excellent. Hilarious. British.

Outside of the Tower of London. Notice that my neck is well protected.