Westminster, Concert, and a Fire Alarm!

Today was spent in and around Westminster Abbey. Again, no pictures inside. Very nice Abbey with a lot of dead rich folks buried there! As you may be able to glean from my postings I am not a Royal Family fan. My favorite Monty Python line: "How do you know he is the king?" "Well, he hasn't got shit all over him." We also visited Ben Franklin's London House and the Churchill war rooms, which were VERY interesting. They just closed the doors after the war and sorta forgot about the place till someone started giving private tours and then they opened it up to the public! We ended the day by going to a concert at the Royal Academy of Music, which is literally in our back yard.


Westminster Abbey. VERY impressive with a lot of dead Kings and Queens buried there. Too many to take in! All of them were pious and good! Even one dude who killed his brother to gain the throne and Bloody Mary, who just happened to burn a few Bishops at the stake. Hey! No one is perfect, right?


Bagpiper outside of Westminster Abbey. I tried to get Tobi to look under his kilt to see what was there, but she would not go for it! 


The Royal Horseguards of London. I Especially liked the sign that read "Beware, Horses may kick or bite!" People still went up to pet the Royal horse...Not this guy, I did not like the look on the horses face! If you look closely, he IS pissed. I would be too if I had a guy on my back carrying a sword with thousands of strangers coming up to me and petting my face! Really, can you blame the horse?? 


Churchill War Rooms. This was a GREAT tour, After the war was over they just closed the doors and left. In this picture you can clearly see that the guy on the right is yelling to his commander "When will this bloody war end?" Someone should let these guys know that the war is indeed over! 


We ended the day by going to a concert at the Royal Academy of music. The concert program was selections from film composers ending with a Star Wars medley. Right up my alley! Funny story, we left during the second encore and Tobi decided to go out the door with the fire alarm. WOW was that loud! The usher (being English) took it all in stride and said "Just keep going." We did...and rather quickly too!