Following the Tower of London we walked across the Tower Bridge and caught a taxi to visit St. Paul's Cathedral--another thing I had heard great things about!
We made it to the cathedral just in time to watch the communion for The Church of England. It's so interesting to learn how other people around the world worship and pray to God. I don't think this lady was too enthused:
I had only gotten a couple pictures inside the cathedral before being asked not to take any more and there isn't a great spot outside to get a picture of the whole thing because it's so big.
We enjoyed lunch at a restaurant called Garfunkle's and then split up from Tom because he wasn't feeling well and needed to lie down back at the hostel. Chelsie and I are avid Harry Potter fans so we really wanted to make it to King's Cross station while we're here and fortunately Logan and my dad were game so the four of us took a taxi through parts of the city we hadn't seen yet before slipping a little further into my Harry Potter dreams!
The Harry Potter shop was awesome! They had anything you could possibly imagine from t-shirts to wall hangings to wands to any other replica item you can imagine from the books. I would love to one day have a library in our home and fill it with everything we saw from that store! Chelsie and I got matching shirts and my cute dad bought me three HP books; The Tales of Beetle the Bard, Quidditch Through the Ages, and Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. He's so good to me!
See this trolley? The main reason we went to King's Cross was to take a picture of us holding on to that but the line was at least an hour wait and we just didn't have that kind of time. We have to come back one day to take that picture and go to the WB Harry Potter Studio.
We still had a bit of time after King's Cross so we went to Harrod's--the world's largest department store! I had heard it was massive but there's no way to truly understand how massive until you see it for yourself. And to think I thought the Mall of America is huge! The crazy thing about Harrod's is that it's not even a mall, just one giant, EXPENSIVE store. Here are a few pictures of one of the candy "rooms". II don't think the pictures really do it justice but trust me, this candy looked like it should be on display forever and never be eaten! What a crazy experience!
And here we are next to a fancy Harrod's bear:
After Harrod's we went back to our hostel to meet up with Tom and find something for a late dinner. There is a small pizza place across the street from where we're staying called Pizza da Vinci so we got food from there and ended up staying in the rest of the night. We have another early morning tomorrow so we want to be sure we get a decent sleep tonight. Goodnight, London!
Weather Today:
Like the last couple days, the weather was quite nice today! It was a little windier, which made it a bit chilly at times, but we were never caught in the rain so that was really nice. Considering what we were told the weather could be like, I'm really pleased with how much sun we had while we were here!
London has been amazing! It's sad to think our time here is already up. We've had so much fun the past two and a half days and I couldn't have hoped for anything better. While I'm bummed we have to leave, I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!
I can't wait to get to Spain! Both my brother and brother-in-law served their missions in Spain so we're excited to see where they spent two years of their lives. Vamonos!
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