Day 3 Hyde Park, British Museum, Tower of London, Globe Theatre, St. Pauls Cathedral

Day 3 in London. Fatigue had set in. I seriously had to photoshop my eyes in some pics because I had like 5 LINES under them. Not showing that to all my friends and family..sorry folks. This is Hyde Park, directly across from our hotel. They had a really neat art type "row" on Sunday morning lots of lovely...and not so lovely pictures.

See...the English confuse me. They think Americans are over the top...but THIS is a PARK BENCH. A PARK BENCH PEOPLE! A TAD over the top ya think?

I got all excited when I saw this. And if you don't know who this person is, you should be shot...then hanged..then quartered. British style.

The British Museum, also known as "Britain's raping of the world." It was really cool to see all the treasure from around the world. But made me a little nauseous thinking of all the people they took over and stole from. Kinda sucked.

The inside of the Museum, it was pretty cool. Pretty echoey.

The Rosetta stone. It was pretty awesome. Had the same thing written in multiple languages. Really neat to see.

See I need to move to London. They obviously know WHERE to get their news. Very wise people.

This is London's version of a "big box store." Its a small storefront, with tons of catalogs. You look through, pick what you want and go to the counter. They go and get it for you in the back. Matt was geeking out over it.

This is a lovely emperor, He was fascinating. And very cute in his Ceasar cut.

First view of the Tower of London. Its much larger than I thought it would be. First built by a Normandy conqueror. Some of the original tower foundation is still around.

This is where MOST of the people were executed if they stayed in the Tower. Only 5 were beheaded inside the compound. Then of course the little princes that were murdered in their rooms.

this was our Beefeater Dickey. He was pretty funny. To be a Beefeater you have to have 20 years of perfect military service to the Queen. NO screwups. These guys are the cream of the crop. And pretty entertaining. If you go to the Tower you MUST take their tour. Its free.

Anne Boleyn's apartments before they took her head away from her.

The chapel where Anne and others are buried. Unmarked graves. Anne is buried under the alter along with Jane Grey.

I'm right outside the chapel in this pic, I had just seen the inside and was totally crazy excited. lol

Inside the main tower. They had a display of Henry's armor. It was pretty cool. The guy was FULL.OF.HISSELF. though.

These crows were MASSIVE. Like i'm pretty sure it could open its beak and rip my face off. They were the size of large cats.

a pretty shot of the compound.

the main tower, when they were adding stairs to it they were digging around it and found two small bodies buried. They were the little princes that went missing hundreds of years earlier.

Traitors gate. Many reputable noble prisoners were brought in on boat through this gate. usually at night under secrecy.

The "monument" where the beheadings took place. I also love this pic because this dude is sticking his tongue out.

Close up shot :)

I think I was on the Jubilee bridge when Matt took this. Shows some of the other cool bridges in London. They have a ton. Many are purely pedestrian.

We went to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to see Troilus & Cressida. Probably one of Shakespeare's least performed plays. It was really good though and we enjoyed it. I couldn't stop thinking of how cool it all was. I still remember clearly learning all about it in Mrs. Anger's English class Sophmore year.

We sat in the middle level. VERY glad i paid more and got actual SEATS. There is a big area in the middle that is $5 to get in and no seats. Just a big concrete floor. Its where all the "peasants" would stay when Shakespeare's plays were being originally shown. There is no roof over that area. So some people got wet. Not horrid though, we were lucky to see very VERY little rain.

Matt at St. Pauls Cathedral. It was MASSIVE. Unfortunately it was almost midnight so they were closed :P So we didnt get to go inside.

Instead we went to this cafe right across the street from it and had this AMAZING chocolate torte. It was GOOOD GOOOOD. :) Probably one of my fav desserts on our trip.

This picture I took to show you how freaking scary it was past midnight. It was a Sunday night, it was DESERTED and I was totally freaking out we were going to be murdered in the middle of the business district in London. We made it home alive though. So that was good.