Cuppa Tea and The Beatles

So my third day in London was pretty fun.

Carolyn and I started off by going to mass at this little church she found in SoHo. At first glance it doesnt look like much. Just another brick building on the street. But then you go inside. It looks like a small cathedral! It was so beautiful and mass was lovely.

Then we did a tiny bit of window shopping and then decided to make our was downtown to Twinings. In order to get there we switched things up a bit. Instead of taking the tube, we rode one of the famous red double decker buses! It was so much fun! We went up to the top and it was cool to see everything from a new angle. We were dropped off near the Thames and we decided to picnic for lunch before going to Twinings.

We then walked down a ways and finally made it to our destination. Now you are probably wondering 'What is Twinings?' Well I'll tell you. Twinings is a small old little tea shop. but not only can you buy just about every tea imaginable, you can walk to the back and sit down for a free cuppa (or two). I had so much fun there, and I even bought some new teas to try.

Then we walked down to St. Paul's cathedral and looked around. It was very nice. Then we sat down with a few Popsicles (or lollies) in the small park surrounding St. Paul's. What was strange though was that there were these two people walking around feeding squirrels. That's right folks...feeding squirrels. And I don't mean that they just threw some food on the ground for them. No, these people whistled and made clicking noises at them until the squirrels came up to them and ate out of their hands! Sometimes they even crawled up the person's arm! It certainly was a site to see.

We then walked past the Tower of London and admired it from the outside (too long a line to get in...tourists!). It was still really cool to see though. I even got a picture of Traitor's Gate. Then we walked across Tower Bridge and got to see a great view of London from there. It was really beautiful.

Then we kept on walking until we came across the Millennium Bridge ad we walked across it. For those of you who don't know...the Millennium Bridge was the white wire looking bridge that Voldemort's Death Eaters destroyed in one of the Harry Potter movies!

From there we walked along South Bank and I got to see two BBC Sherlock filming sites! Unfortunately, they were not filming there when I walked by so I didn't get to meet anyone famous. :(

Then Carolyn and I took the Tube down to the famous Abbey Road. And we were not the only ones. There were tons of people there taking pictures of their friends walking across Abbey Road just like the Beatles had done so many years ago. And yes, Carolyn and I both took turns walking across Abbey Road to get our pictures taking. It was much more fun then either of us expected. Although that may have had something to do with the 24 hour live cam on the site where both of our parental units were watching. :)

Then we called it a day and wen t back to her place, made dinner, and watched Young Victoria!