Busy day today. We walked through Hyde Park (beautiful gardens and lake) and went to Buckingham Palace. It was neat to see the gates and the palace guards (no changing today), but not that much to see at the palace. They do, however, appear serious about keeping people out of the palace property, as they had the most intimidating security fence I've ever seen.
Next we went to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, then on to the London Eye. If you haven't heard of the London Eye, it's basically an enormous Ferris wheel over the river with glass pods that complete one full revolution every half hour. You can see almost the entire city from the top, though it is a bit disconcerting to look straight down thru the capsule and see nothing but some glass and almost 500 feet of air between you and the river. After going up in the Eye, we went to Westminster Abbey, but alas we got there a few minutes after they closed so we didn't get to go inside.
Tonight we saw Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre. Neither Kelly nor I had seen it before (I don't count the 8th grade production back at Hutch). Very good production, we're both still amazed how well they do stage shows here; the stage transitions and effects are so seamless, music and vocals so crisp, and so many shows you could see two a day for weeks before you saw them all.
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