London, England

Well friends, we apologize for the lack of postings. Homework is a drag and I am now starting on my finals. However in two weeks we will be home from Germany to visit with our family and friends for the Christmas holiday and look forward to a much needed break in our lives. of course I was thinkiing we would get a little rest, but it never works out that way.

So, even though I have yet to post pictures from our trip to Amsterdam and Rothenberg, I did want to post a few of London. Wow, what a wonderful place that was.

We started off our trip with a Broadway Play. For those of you who know me, know how much I love New York City. One of my favorite places is Times Square. Well, getting off the Tube in London and walking out onto the street in the Picidilly Circus area was like stepping onto the crowed streets of Times Square. It was fantastic. I love the energy, the tube-even as crammed in as sardines we all were, is one of the best things about city life. London's tube system was so easy to getting around. We saw Spamalot...Alex loves Monty Python and this was the perfect way to start our time here. If you ever get the opportunity to see this play-it is well worth the price and the pain of too much belly laughs...beware it is a tad bit risque.

This is the statue of Prince Albert which sits in the corner of I think Kensington Park near Kensington Palace where Princess Diana lived after the divorce. Prince Albert was the love of Queen Victoria's life.

One of the famous guards at Whitehall. We were able to watch the beginning of the changing of the guards. It is everyday at 11:00 am and the guards pull 24 hour duty.

Buckingham Palace where Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip eat there cereal from tupperware containers. No lie.

The Tower Bridge which is absoulutely beautiful all lit up at night. Unfortuately, our camera takes BAD night pictures.

The Tower of London.




The area in where Queen Anne Boelyn was beheaded...as the rhyme all British children learn in grammer school...divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. (Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boelyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleaves, Katherine Howard, and Katherine Parr). Henry VIII fasinates me.
Well friends, we will see most of you in a few weeks. For the rest we wish you a very happy holiday season.