Shakespeare was a constant theme throughout our trip whether we liked it or not.




Our favorite Shakespeare spot, without a doubt, was the Globe Theatre. This picture was taken just across from the theatre at a fancy little restaurant called The Swan. We usually love showing off what we eat at places but this happened to be our last day of having any money for the next few days. All we had was a tomato an onion salad.





Yea, that is totally Gossamer on the Globe Theatre stage. He was allowed on it. His faithful human best friend who feeds and takes care of him, was not. (*sigh*)



There was no way we could continue on without at least seeing one play at the famous theatre! We were lucky enough to see an AMAZING showing of Macbeth. It was seriously the best version we had ever seen. The groundling area (the cheapest tickets where you stand throughout the play) was covered in a weird, black rubber thing. The audience members could poke their heads out of the black thingy as they watched the play. They just had to be careful of the witches and random dead bodies poking them.




Some time later we had a bit of fun being escorted out of a tube station by some fireman. This is basically what happens when a "Mysterious Package" is delivered.




It is no secret museums are not our favorite places to visit. On one our class tours, we had to visit the Tate Modern. This picture shows Gossamer at his favorite spot at the museum: outside the museum. We separated from the main group and hid on the balcony for a while. We eventually had to go back inside and that's where we discovered a wonderful new game!




We had just passed a sculpture that literally looked like poo and noticed the scene above from a window. Gossamer wanted to pose in front of the window, but we couldn't get a decent shot. Instead, he asked me just to take a picture of all the people having fun outside. As I was doing this, Gossamer noticed something strange: people were staring at us. Not just us though, they were trying to see what we were taking pictures of. We pretended not to notice and continued taking tons of photos of the outside. A nice little group started forming behind us. When we finished we walked away mumbling, "Amazing... I can't believe I got the shot." People went to the window, unsure of what had just happened.



We had to post SOME pictures of food. We are not exactly sure what this is or where we got but we do remember it was very yummy. We downed the whole plate and wanted seconds.



On one of our days off, we took a trip to Canary Wharf. It was pretty quiet since it was Sunday, but still a nice trip. We went to some parks, got lost, picked a random destination on the tube station, got lost, found some more parks, and went back through Canary Wharf.



At the end of the day we wanted to see Big Ben at night and explore the area.



Our biggest regret was not remembering the name of where we got this cupcake. We are huge cupcake fans. It was just a basic red velvet cupcake with cream cheese buttercream frosting and it was amazing.



On our last day we had a few major stops. The first was The Crypt. I thought it would be a creepy, grotesque cafe. It was actually very pretty and looked just like the cafe in several museums we visited. I did not care how it looked though because we bought some delicious strawberries with whipped cream and some tea. It was pretty awesome. The second was Buckingham Palace. We didn't get to really see it the first time and wanted to get a good look. It is actually really pretty up close than trying to sneak a peak from a distance.

We also went to the National Portrait Gallery. We do not have any photos because we managed to escape from that tour. We were looking up information on the Blind Traveler, James Holman while we waited. We couldn't find the drawing we wanted so I asked for help. Long story short, a lady helped us set up a meeting with a man who could take us into the National Portrait Gallery Archives. He showed us the original drawings and pictures of James Holman and gave me information I needed to get into other places. Unfortunately, I will not be able to use that information until I go back to London.



For our last meal of the trip, we went to the King's Cross station and did some people watching! (It's like bird watching... but with people). We meant to show a picture of our chocolate croissant before we ate it but forgot... We remembered right before we finished it! Just for the record, it was very tasty.




Two and half weeks had passed and it was time to go home. The trip was over. We said our Goodbyes and made the voyage back home to Texas.