London! (Part 2)

Here's my pictures from my second day out and about in London! I spent the majority of the day at the Tower of London, and then finished it off with the Tower Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral, and the Millennium Bridge.

The entrance to the Tower.





Our guide, a Yeoman Warder. They're not just tour guides; they're actual members of the Queen's guard who live at the Tower.





The green where Anne Boleyn was beheaded.


It started snowing while I was there!























Some of King Henry VIII's armor.














A very old toilet.





The biggest book I've ever seen.


The smallest and largest suits of armor they have at the Tower. The small one is for a small child, and the large one is for a man who stands 6 feet, 8 inches.


A model of the Tower.





Since it's an official residence of the Queen, it gets a guard!





Tower Bridge.


























Of course this is for sale in the Tower gift shop.


Ice skating outside the Tower!








The entrance to St. Paul's Cathedral.





The Millennium Bridge. It was the one that got destroyed in the sixth Harry Potter movie!


The side view of St. Paul's, from the walkway to the Millennium Bridge.

London! (Part 1)

I was in London for 6 days, so it will take several posts to cover everything I saw. Below are the best pictures from my first day. I did a walking tour of some of the major sights, and then hung out in the National Gallery for awhile!

Big Ben


Westminster Abbey





The Houses of Parliament


The London Eye














Buckingham Palace


























You can tell by the flag that the Queen was at home!











St. James' Park


Where Prince Charles lives.


The squirrel poked his head out of the hole, and then ran laps around the tree!


St. James' Palace, which was King Henry VIII's official residence. According to our tour guide, whenever a foreign dignitary visits, they officially stay here, but actually stay somewhere nice, like the Hilton. He added, "It's basically just a large, elaborate filing cabinet."


Since it's still an official Royal residence, members of the Queen's Guard get to stand outside!














Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.











London in a nutshell.


Trafalgar Square.


The artist who made these lions had never seen a real lion, so he modeled his sculptures after a lion head from the Museum of Natural History and the body of his own Jack Russel Terriers.


The oddest Nativity Scene I've ever seen. It's all spread out, and Joseph is lounging like a creeper.


Nelson's ship, the HMS Victory.





The National Gallery.