Day 3 - So today was another great day in the city of London. We started the day by heading over to St. Paul's Cathedral. It was an absolutely beautiful church. We actually stumbled upon a service while there which was pretty cool for this good ole southern baptist boy. The ceiling was full of mosaics made of colored glass...it was beautiful! We had heard nothing but great things about climbing up to the very top and taking a look out over London, but much to our dismay, the very top was closed. The good news is that we did get to go to the grand rim just about 20 meters from the very top. I didn't count, but I am sure we climbed thousands of stairs to get to the top. they were all about 4 inch tall stairs spiraling to the top. We must have gone around that column at least 25 times.
Next on the list for the day was to head over to Borough Market were we ate an authentic English lunch. I had a grilled duck baggette and it was really good. After this we headed back over to Trafalgar's Square and went to the National Gallery where many of Picasso's paintings are on display. This was a very neat place to see art that we only see pictures of in our history books.
Just outside the square was non other than the Texas Embassy. That's right, The Republic still has an embassy here. (Technically it is just a restaurant now, but still cool to see a TX flag flying in London) While there we went to the bar and all had a nice Dr. Pepper for just £2.20 ($3.30). I guess that is the price you pay to have it imported form the Republic...
Dinner tonight was some amazing Lamb. It was cooked over a bed of onions, potatoes and beans. We have really gotten used to these great meals in London at the Bradley's for free, tomorrow in Paris is going to be a rude awakening... After dinner we got a chance to go out to hallowed ground; Wimbledon! We did not get to go onto the grounds, but we were able to get just inside the gates and take a picture of the outside of Center Court. I found it really neat that it is completely surrounded by houses on every side.
Well I am going to have to call it quits on this one because we are having to get up early to catch the eurostar to Paris. And for all those worried about us having a place to stay in Paris don't worry, we finally booked a place tonight. Well I don't know if I am going to be able to blog every day from this point, but I will as much as I can.
Well this is goodbye from London till we return on June 14th on our way home.
Michael
P.S. Noelle, I passed a girl today in the metro with your perfume on today...I followed her for 15 min...jk but really
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