London Day 2

London Blog Entry—Better Late Then Never

November 12, 2014

Abigail Cakebread

So, sorry to all who wanted the London blog entry to be on time. I'm a procrastinator. Try not to judge. At least it's here. Mom explained Friday, so I will deal with Saturday! We woke up and took a shower (it was lovely to have water pressure again) and got ready to go to Tower Hill, or the Tower of London. Doctor Who filmed part of it's 50^th anniversary in there. If you'll notice, I didn't mention anything about breakfast above. That's because we didn't actually have breakfast. And Londoners aren't very big into the whole “breakfast places”. Sure, there are coffee shops that may or may not serve eggs and toast, but no pancakes or waffles or BREAKFAST places. So after taking 20 minutes to fail to find a nonexistent breakfast place, we settled for an AM/PM type deal. We found muffins and doughnuts (I got a doughnut—it was as big as my head!!!) and ate. Then, we turned our sights to the Tower of London! 

Passing by the Tower, there was a “delicious” smell of caramelized peanuts. Of course Colleen and Dad had to have some. I couldn't eat them and really didn't want to, both reasons because they were caramel. The Tower moat was filled by ceramic red poppies, one to represent one death in WWI. They call it a sea of blood. After waiting a while, the friendly, funny tour guide started talking about the Tower. Honestly, it was a few weeks ago, so I don't remember all of the details, but he was a pretty cool tour guide. He was really funny, and explained everything really well. After that, he set us loose on the tower and it's surroundings. We let ourselves tour the artillery filled with medieval tools and weapons. There was armor and horse armor and an archery simulation. It was pretty cool. After that we toured more of the ancient buildings, then found the line to the Crown Jewels. It was at least an hour long just on the first glance. Second glances showed it was an hour and a half as more people got into the line. Who would wait that long?? Not us, that's for sure. So we went off looking for lunch. The first place we saw was too crowded. Then we meandered around and found another place to eat. Colleen had fish, I had pizza shared with Dad. Honestly, the pizza here is all pretty good. Mom will complain that I ask for pizza too much, but it's worth it. It's delicious!! To die for! Anyway, after lunch we didn't know what to do next, so we went to Oxford Circus to find.... a blue police box!! And we found it! For those who have no idea what the significance of this is, it's a huge reference to Doctor Who. Now you must watch it. It's a good show. Been going on since 1963. But the best ones started back up in 2005. Anyway, you're letting me get off track. So after the TARDIS encounter, we went to the Ale and Pie House for dinner. After that, we were again at a loss of what to do afterwords. Guess where we headed? The London Eye. We went on the Eye (another place where they filmed Doctor Who) and it was gorgeous. Big Ben and every London tourist attraction place in one glance. After the ride ended, we headed back to the zebra-carpeted hotel for a bit of shut-eye. 

This is Abby Cakebread, signing off. 

A little more than fashionably late.