Our swank hotel - after our first had a gas leak.
Miss Caroline in our room.
Lobby... again, swank! Used to be one family's house.
View from our basement-level room. Guess it was an old servant's quarters?
Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park area
Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park... our first London outing.
Museum or concert hall or something... this picture was mostly just for the double decker bus.
Gatework... purple and gold! haha
Statue representing America... buffaloes and manifest destiny, that's what we're all about.
Hyde Park
Little Peter Pan statue in the park.
Chinese New Year: welcome to the year of the tiger. The year I was born was also apparently the year of the tiger so... connection!
Sushi. Not exactly British food.
Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace.
"Fish and chips." I'll wait for my British sources to confirm their authenticity before removing the quotation marks.
I like the Underground's branding.
The neighborhood used for Mary Poppins.
"Westminster Abbey! Hands down, best Abbey I've ever seen."
Where the Archbishop of Canterbury lives
A hotel or something... I liked the colors and the architecture.
London Eye and the Thames.
Big Ben. Not as big as you'd expect.
Streets of London.
Downing Street... where the Prime Minister/Hugh Grant lives.
On top of a double decker bus... FREEZING!
Topshop! British store that's always mentioned in like, InStyle and things. We went in, reminded me a bit of an Urban Outfitters with a pastel color palate.
BBC offices. States: "To the friendship of English speaking peoples" and the two statues represent Britain and the US. Friends!
Peek at St. Paul's... where you can feed the birds for tuppence a bag.
OK, this is Tower Bridge, NOT London Bridge like I though. London Bridge doesn't look like anything special and the song was written about it because they kept tearing it down and rebuilding it.
ON Tower Bridge. NOT London Bridge.
Trafalger Square with Little Ben in the background.
Museum workers striking... meant we missed out on both the National Gallery and the British Museum! boo
I HAD to have a pancake on "Pancake Day" but they were so hard to find! Technically, this was more like a crepe that we have in France, but at least I got maple syrup on it.
On a boat. Caroline informed that the building all the way to the left is actually used as James Bond's headquarters or something in the movies... I wouldn't know.
The Tower of London. In the rain.
More rain. Very London.
Painted directions for crossing streets. Come in more handy than you'd think, especially since they drive on the left.
The television, playing things in english, gave me such joy. I rediscovered my love for the song "Bleeding Love." (Which is technically British I guess.)
I don't think I could have been more excited to see them if they were my real FRIENDS.
haha, took this for mom - after all that Gilmore Girls on the DVR, it was like coming home to see it again... and in english!
Yes, that's Ferris Bueller on British television. If watching this was the only thing we did on the whole trip... still worth it!
