london: day three

on our final day in London, chip and I went to the changing of the guard at Buckingham palace. it was swarming with thousands of people from all over the world and everyone was pushing and shoving to get the best view. we waited for about 30 minutes for it to begin but we couldn’t see the ceremony so we decided to catch the tube to the museum of natural history and the victoria and albert museum.

both museums were housed in what looked like old churches. They had gargoyles on the front and beautiful stained glassed windows. In the museum of natural history we learned about dinosaurs that lived in Europe long ago and about how cells are formed in the human body. in the victoria and albert museum we saw a fashion exhibit with historic dresses from yves st. laurent and calvin klein. it reminded me of my time at fashion week in nyc.

around 5:30 pm we attended an evensong service at westminster abbey. the church was ornate and beautiful. we heard the boys’ choir sing. they wore the cutest red choir robes with ruffles around the collar and sounded amazing. next, we rushed over to the other side of the river thames to try to score some tickets to the shakespeare theater’s production of a midsummer’s night dream. unfortunately, we weren’t able to get in so we had a bite to eat and called it a night.

the next morning we had to get up at 5:00 am to catch the train to the airport in order to make our flight to frankfurt to meet up with our travel mates nick and corinne. so we said adieu to our tiny hotel room and waved goodbye to london as we headed to our next stop on our exciting european adventure: heidelberg, germany.

check out the pictures we uploaded in the slideshow. i think if you click on the slideshow you will be redirected to the picassa web album where you can view the pictures at your own pace.

~anne