Thursday Oct.12

We are settling into a routine now, we get our little bag of breakfast {"yoghurt", a banana and juice} then we are off for the day. The plan is very busy but here goes!
We stop at the ticket office in the tube and get a two zone off peak all day and we can just hop off and on anywhere. Our first stop is Westminster Abbey. It was not busy and we spent about 3 hours there. Oh my it is awesome! We saw the graves of so many famous people and attended a communion service in Edward the Confessor Chapel. Next a walk past 10 Downing St. and the Prime Minister's place. It is well guarded as you can imagine with officials standing around with machine guns! We took a picture and got out of there.
The Cabinet War Rooms were next. That was very interesting. Everyone got a audio tape and went through at your own pace. We saw the famous Map Room and the 21 roomed bunker used by Winston Churchill and his cabinet during the war. It was all sealed when the war was over as it was used in that time and then opened in 1970 I believe. Worth the visit.
We found the National Gallery and just had an hour before closing but it was wonderful! We saw works by Leonardo Di Vinci, Van Gogh, Renoir and we did look up "Whistlejacket" Emilies favorite!
Since we are making an effort to try as mush beer as possible we stop each afternoon at a pub. Today we went to "Lord Moon of the Mall" pub for Carsling and Bomadier. We did have a traditional English lunch which included a potato pie type dish, and dad had a steak pie.
We got back around 7 having spent a very busy and exciting day around town.