So it's our last day in London. Sucks.
The day started out just beautifully with...aw, what the hell is this? Rain?!?!
Hmph. Well. So much for going for a ride in the Eye. We knew there was a chance it would rain, actually, so The Rutherford and I had tried to do The Eye yesterday, but we got there waaaaay before it opened and decided to do something else instead. I guess we'll put that one on the List For Next Time.
Next on the agenda for the day; a great big nothing fight! Yup. Oh well, that was really just the second one of the trip. Not too bad.
So the fambly decided to go check out Harrod's together. I had forgotten to pick up a keychain the day before, so I was totally fine with going back. This time, we ended up in the jewelry department. I found an absolutely adorable necklace with a little pistol pendant that had a sparkly green wing coming off of it.
It was £1400.
Jeez. Ok Harrod's, I got the message. Go back to shopping at Ross. Whatevs.
Since they don't charge to look, Pat and I split up from the guys and did girl browsing. It was super fun, they had amazing dresses and lingerie and everything women love. We kind of went over our time limit, and by the time we got back to the guys they were super ready to go.
I started recapping how the afternoon went, but I decided I want to repress most of the memories of the last part of the day. The rain made for a mood challenging day, especially since the Underground was super packed with people.
The highlight if the day was having tea with Pat. She booked tea in a beautiful hotel, it was delicious, and a nice respite from all the rain and wet that day. If the weather is like this most of the time, I understand why the Brits are so big on tea.
After tea, we went to meet up with the guys to go to the Tower of London and see the Crown Jewels. It was about 3:30 on a Tuesday, mind you. We get in there and the line to see the good stuff is a MILLION MILES LONG. Which sucked because it was one of Pat's "must-do's" and I felt bad that she didn't get to do it.
But we did go through the White Tower, which had armor and weapons, so you know there was a certain someone in our group who was very happy.
The antique arms were cool, but this was my favorite:
After we got through the white tower, we were all pretty tired. I decided to sit out the Torture/Dungeon exhibit and took this pic of the London Bridge instead
After getting back to the hotel, Brian and I decided we needed a little whiskey tea party before dinner. So we made a plate of shortbread and gathered up the tea things and crashed Pat and Jeff's room to have our little party. Everyone was tired, so rather than go out again, we ordered pizza and had dinner in the room. I don't think Pappa had any whiskey tea, which is a shame because it was surprisingly good and warmed you right up after a day in the rain.
We all went back to our rooms to figure out how the heck we were going to get everything back into our bags. Flying out tomorrow. Not ready to get back to reality.
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