Day #4

Is it really Day #4? I feel like I've been here forever, with a new adventure lurking around every corner...

Well, the snore chorus was at full volume last night, but I didn't hear most of it b/c I had earplugs!! Hooray!! I took them out of my ears this morning, and that's when I heard it loud and clear. I tried to put them back in, but it was too late. I was awake. It was probably about 5:30am. The sun wakes up so early here...

Yesterday I did so much walking that the insides of my crocs (yes, I'm walking in my crocs) came off on my feet, making me feet black as tar by the end of the day.

Courtald Gallery, which was great. A small gallery, but lots of impressionist stuff. I think smaller might be more my style. Trying to see everything in a big place makes my head hurt.

Lunch on the west steps of St. Paul's where two schools of ballet were putting on a free performance. Two elderly women sat down in front of me to watch the ballet. One gazed all around, and her friend queried as to what she was doing. "Well," the woman responded. "I'm on a mission from my granddaughter to find her a good husband!" They continued to chat, when suddenly a young man came and sat down in front of them. The elderly woman was so excited and began to chat with the young man, asking him if he had come to enjoy the ballet and did he go to the ballet often. "What?" he asked. "I just came to eat my lunch." The elderly woman turned to her friend. "Too bad," she said, "I thought I found a good one!"

I loved the walking that I did. Just looking around at the architecture and the people. I love people...

Then to the Tower of London, which was cool, but had so many people buzzing about. Too many in my opinion. And not enough information about who the people were. That's what I want to know. Why did they kill all those people? Who were they? Did they deserve it? I want the details, not the overview. I want to know about the people. The funny thing about this tour was Henry VIII's codpiece. Hahaha! Completely absurd! The man obviously had issues...

I crossed Tower Bridge and walked the southside of the Thames toward the Globe Theatre, resting here and there along the way to absorb it all. I wonder if I would walk around and absorb it all in STL?...

Sadly, when I got to the Globe Theatre, tickets were all sold out. I don't know why I didn't think to purchase in advance! Silly me! So I went to the London Eye, well worth the price, and then I crossed the bridge and walked on the northside of the Thames. Again, one of my favorite parts has been the walking...

One thing that's different about London is that so many people find a nice place to eat lunch or dinner on a lawn, and they do it. From sitting on the west steps of St. Paul's to sitting in the courtyard of another church or sitting on a grassy space by the river, you can see littered and strewn across these spaces business men and women, elderly people, families (they might be tourists.) One really cute one was a business man, his wife, and their little baby in the courtyard of St. Paul's having lunch together. I want to do that with my husband someday...sweet...

Today I spend the day at Kew Gardens with Becky, Darrell, Emily, and Megan. Looking forward to having some deeper discussions...

miss you love you! have a wonderful day!

I am Spanish! When I asked a guard at the Tower of London where I should go by pointing in the correct direction, he, with a very distant English accent said, "Si." If only I knew spanish fluently. I could have totally pulled this off!...