Rain, rain, and more rain. We were able to find our hotel without any issue and we decided to do the double decker bus tour, visit the tower of London museum, and ride the London Eye. We hopped on one of the busses and it of course started to rain not even 10 minutes into our ride so we decided to get off at the tower of London museum which was a terrible idea because only parts of this are inside; but it was very interesting as there is so much history there. We then walked across the Tower Bridge to head to Burrough Market to get some lunch before hopping back on the tour bus to ride around and see the remaining sites. We got off at the Buckingham Palace because double decker busses are not allowed to drive in front of the palace (assuming security reasons) and took the walk along St. James Park to the houses of Parliament, past Big Ben and to the London Eye – which was very neat to ride at night!
For dinner we of course ate fish and chips – and not surprisingly, Leanne did not like her mushy peas!
On Saturday morning we walked over to the shopping district and grabbed lunch (fish and chips again) before heading to the tube to catch our train to Brussels. Again, it started pouring after being a beautiful, sunny morning and my shoes are still soaked as this time the wind broke my umbrella.
We made a pit stop in Brussels so I could show her the Grote Markt, Manneken Pis, to grab dinner, and so she could buy some Belgian chocolate. Our flight is ~11AM tomorrow and I am looking forward to being back in Chicago / home for Thanksgiving!!
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