Sep 28, 2011
London

Day 7

• Took a lovely stroll through St. James Park, the same park that we had blazed through 2 days earlier.
• Watched the Royal Horse Guard ceremony which was essentially a bunch of guards on horses looking at other guards on horses.
• Visited the Churchill War Rooms, the underground bunker that the prime minister and his cabinet worked from during WWII.
• Some Lehigh parents who were from Seattle talked to me in the War Rooms. My Lehigh shirt I had on may have given me away. Who can say?
• We took an unadvised walk through the neighborhood to get to Cask Pub Kitchen where we ate cheeseburgers and rested our sore feet.
• Went to see the craziness that is Harrod’s department store.
• Bought macarons from Laduree and Pierre Herme so we could perform a taste test. We do not agree.
• Walked though Green Park to get to The Wolseley for afternoon tea.
• We can be civilized when we want to.
• Thought it would be fun to ride bikes through Hyde Park. 
• We almost ran over everybody.
• In our defense, those rental bikes are hard as hell to control.
• So we rode to the Princess Diana Memorial and then returned the bikes as quick as we could.
• Thought it would be nice to take an evening cruise on the River Thames.
• London didn’t agree as there were no boats running, but we sat on a bench and watched the London Eye spin around.
• Not to compare, but the Seine is better than the Thames, if only for the fact that you can walk right into it if you want. The Thames has more obstacles between you and water.