London! Part 2

Saturday:

            Today we went straight to Kings Cross/St. Pancras station (which is really pretty itself) to get on a train to Paddington. From there we got on a train to go to Windsor. This was one day we were really, really happy to have bought the London Pass, the line at Windsor Castle was extremely long (a girl that worked there said it was as busy as a day in July, but in July they have twice as many staff) but our pass allowed us to cut straight to the front of the line.

-We checked out St. George’s Chapel first (thankfully Morgan noticed it was going to be closing early that day) we took lots of pictures of the outside but sadly they don’t allow pictures inside. St. George’s is the church on the grounds at Windsor Castle and is the chapel of the Order of the Garter. While in line to get into the church, the family in front of us (from Arizona but currently living in London) pointed out that the Queen was in the castle that day because her standard (flag) was flying over the castle. Sadly we didn’t run into her!

-Next we toured the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world (and the Queens favorite weekend home) Windsor Castle – it was just as beautiful as I remembered! Here again, no pictures inside, but I snagged some off the internet.

– Once we finished touring around the castle we headed across the street to the Horse & Groom for some fish and chips. This is the same place I ate with my mom and sister 7 years earlier when we visited Windsor!  When we finished lunch we walked around the town a little before hoping back on the train.

-When we got back to London we decided to head down to the Westminster pier and catch the Thames River Cruise up to the Tower pier. It was kinda chilly and windy, but it was so worth it! It was great seeing the Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, the Tate Modern, the London Eye, Parliament and Big Ben (and lots of other stuff) from the water.  When we made it to the Tower pier we only had 45 minutes until the last boat was leaving so we hung out at Starbucks to warm up and borrow the internet.

-After the cruise we headed back towards our hotel and decided to see Iron Man 3 (while we were in a country where they were showing it in English).  Turns out movies in London are kinda expensive!  It was £30 for two movie tickets and we had to laugh when we got into the theater because it was probably the smallest movie theater screen we had ever seen.  But, the movie was really funny so it was nice to just sit for a few hours and relax after two days of running around.