Wednesday, October 29th

Yesterday was a huge day! I was waaay to tired when we got home to post on here so am doing it now, hopefully I get the last few days posted up too – I typed them yesterday morning but didn’t have time to post them in the end.

We caught the tube into town at about 10 I think it was – we managed to find our way to the underground station (took us maybe half an hour to walk there I guess) and managed the train change half way without any bother hehe. We met Kirsten in town and our day began!
First we saw Lester Square, where heaps of film premieres are held – they were getting all organized for one while we were there – James bond I think.

We walked through China town, and headed to Piccadilly Circus. Cam was very taken with the big TV screens! Of course Col and I were with how impressive and old all the buildings were!!! It’s amazing how beautiful every single building is!! We just wanted to take pics of them all LOL, I think Kirsten thought we were a tad bonkers hehe.

We walked through to Trafalgar square – Kirsten was annoyed because her perfect view was obstructed by a big stage thing that was being put up!! From here we could start to see Big Ben really well! We took a few thousand pics of the view before heading past Downing Street and to Big Ben and the Parliament buildings. On the way we saw the changing of the horse guards which was pretty neat – even if Cam decided he didn’t like horses much!!

Big Ben and the Parliament buildings were even more impressive than I had imagined! It was almost unbelievable to be actually standing in front of them as opposed to just seeing them in a picture. Campbell was mesmerized by Big Ben – but then I guess who isn’t!! Our tour guide (Kirsten) that the hands on Big Ben are the length of 3 double Decker buses on top of each other….she’s not sure if she’s making it up though LOL.

We walked down to the London eye, but decided against going up – the lines were incredibly long – Campbell was being great, but thought waiting in the line might be pushing him to his boundaries! I might go on it when we’re back in London before we go home (in Feb) if I get the chance.

We wandered down to Westminster Abby to take in yet another impressive scene! It’s hard to know what to say about all these places, except that they are absolutely beautiful, full of character and history and are everything you can imagine and more!

After stopping for a coffee (to defrost!) we kept walking down to Buckingham palace where we took another gazillion photos (lucky we have the portable hard drive HAHAHA, I think we took 300 photos yesterday!) before walking through Green park to Hyde park corner where the NZ memorial and the Wellington Arch are – Kirsten thinks that when the Wellington Arch was built the queen didn’t like it so she got the arch made smaller – this meant her car couldn’t fit through so they couldn’t use it!! Hehe, again I think she’s unsure wheter she just made it up, or whether it’s an entirely different arch but I thought I’d share the story…maybe true….maybe not…
We walked through to Hyde park where we found loads of squirrels for me to take photos of hehe, and Cam raced around a bit – where his energy came from I don’t know!!!

We caught the Tube to St Pauls cathedral, walked along past the Tate modern and over River Thames on the Millennium bridge – which had an awesome view of the South Wark and London Tower bridges. By now it was getting dark so it was looking really awesome all lit up!
We kept walking along the river bank to get a better view of the tower bridge and to see the HSM Belfast, before catching the tube home! So we saw loads and were all pretty knackered by the time we got back home!!!