London, Day Two: Trafalgar Square and Beyond

It's been an incredibly long, but good, day and my brain is fried so I'm going to keep this relatively quick and most likely picture-heavy because I'm not feeling particularly...wordy.

Today we started off by jumping on the "tube" (i.e. subway) up (or over?) to Picadilly Circus (which is kind of like the Time Square of London).


Where I chatted on the telephone for a bit...


We then walked over to Trafalgar Square and went to the National Gallery...which is where I took this picture...


And if you look carefully you can see Big Ben in the distance...


We then headed down towards Parliament and Big Ben...and stopped at the Horse Garden.


Which looked like this on the inside...


They bring the horses out here but we didn't see any other than the ones that were on either side of the gate (pictured above).

And then we passed by where the Prime Minister lives...10 Downing Street...


I did not get to see this place from the inside so I do not know how it looks.

And THEN we saw Big Ben and Parliament...


Which was actually much prettier in person than I thought it would be.

And there was a protest going on there...


It had something to do with genocide in Sri Lanka...I know that sounds very indifferent but I just don't know more about the issue at hand. We did receive a pamphlet about it though.

We then went to Covent Garden where we had lunch at a little Italian-y place and shopped around a little bit.


We then went to the Tower of London which was amazing. We took a guided tour with one of the Beefeaters...which are the Queen's Royal Guard. Our tour guide was hysterical...he had this really dry and sarcastic sense of humor. Here is a picture of KC standing near him while he was giving the tour.


Here we also saw a bunch of Henry VIII's armor and the crown jewels.

After we exited the Tower of London we took some pictures at the famed Tower Bridge.


It was not falling down.

We then headed back towards KC's, stopped by a couple pubs, and had dinner at what KC says is the only good Mexican Restaurant in all of London. Apparently it's owned by some American people. It was called...


That's right...Crazy Homies.

We then returned to KC's...with VERY sore feet...had a wonderful philosophical conversation up on the rooftop patio...and now here I am. And now it is time for bed. To be continued...