London: Part III

So, we’re ready to be traveling home now. We either timed it perfectly to leave Europe exactly when we tired of traveling abroad. Or about a week away from our travel date, whatever it might have been, we would have started getting excited about our return anyway.

However, of course we are still in London! A place people spend a year saving and planning to visit, many for less time than we even have left. So we can’t just spend our last days twiddling our thumbs, watching the clock tick down to our anticipated departure. Get out there and enjoy yourselves, you spoiled brats!

Bill took the girls on a sketch crawl at the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery one day. (There’s still boring things that have to happen, like Mom paying bills and buying train tickets and doing laundry, even on grand adventures.)

We went to the Tower of London, of course, to see the crown jewels, the fabled ravens, and carved graffiti up our eponymous tower. Bill and Maggie sketched one of the guards, showed him the results, and they got a wink! It was spectacular!

We walked over the Thames on the iconic Millennium Bridge.

And we walked under the Thames, through a ruddy long tunnel.

We played at playgrounds, found a wee farm in the city, and rode the Tube for cumulative hours.

Plus we found a whole slew of canal houseboats, and of course we indulged in high tea.

And now, tomorrow, finally, we are allowed to be only excited about our return to the States. We can wave goodbye to London knowing we did lots. And lots!