Ending an amazing trip!

For our last day in England, we had planned a jam-packed day of 'things we would be sad if we didn't try and see' while we were there list. So, to first start things out, we decided to go see the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace. I'm not sure if this is how it was normally composed, because Friday was Rememberance Day (Everyone was wearing red poppies the whole week to commemorate the troops, it was pretty neat-- there was a huge outdoor display at Westminster Abbey as well), so the performance included the Palace Band performing also. Very neat! (Also noted, they warmed up to the Star Wars theme in the park-- you can imagine how happy this made Bryan :) It was awful trying to take photos, hundreds of people smoosh you into the gates because everyone wants to see, so this is one of the only photos we took that made a bit of sense:



After that we took a stroll through Hyde Park, which was gorgeous in November!! Leaves everywhere, needless to say we had to play in them. Nothing says "I'm a tourist" like taking photos of yourself frolicking in leaves, but we had so much fun I didn't care! (Hyde park is BEAUTIFUL. So many people warned us that going in November would be a bad idea; turned out to be warmer than here and perfect in autumn!)



To continue our explorations, we made our way to the Tower Bridge and to the Tate Modern Museum (Poor Bryan... I forgot how awful much modern is; we got to see a few Monet's and Picasso's, as well as The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even by Duchamp-- a nerdily favorite piece from my art history classes that I was excited to see) and onto the oldest pub in England, the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese-- AMAZING. The whole bar was 1300's, and remodeled in the 1600's-- full of little underground nooks to drink in, with an amazing old wooden bar-- very neat to be at! The food was great, too!





Then all that was left to do was wander the city and take as many last minute pics as we could... everything is amazing in the day, and even more amazing at night. We have millions of pictures from the trip; I'm going to figure out how to get them online somehow (Lord knows I've already nearly crashed my Flickr account by attempting to upload a few.. haha)





We got home safetly last night, thanks to being picked up by my amazing parents (Who also made us dinner-- thanks so much!!) and were very happy to see our puppy again, and to sleep in our own bed! (Except I tell you what, that time difference is killer-- we fell asleep on the couch last night at 7:30, and were ready to wake up at 3am-- hopefully this is an advantage to me who has to go to work tomorrow! Bryan gets an extra day to sleep in).

England was everything we had hoped and more! I will try to add a bit to some previous posts, most of the time we were too sleepy when we got back to our hotel to do much of anything but brush our teeth and fall over. We feel very lucky that we got to go, and are looking forward to going back to Europe sometime soon (plan right now is to possibly visit France next year).

Thanks for reading!
Sara