WESTMINSTER ABBEY, BIG RED BUS AND MAMA MIA!

OMGoodness, we all slept sooo good!  We were up bright eyed and bushy tailed for the day!  First stop, after navigating the trains, was Westminster Abbey!  Oh, and Big Ben and Winston Churchill and the Westminster Abbey Shop, which all happened to be close by!

Westminster Abbey was unbelievable— none of us realized that 3,300 people were buried and memorialized there.  Michael (who likes cemeteries) coined the phrase, “It’s my Super Bowl of cemeteries!”

We thought we were finished with the audio tour when Michael reminded us that the oldest door in Britain was located in Westminster Abbey!  And we found it!  And it was so dark it didn’t photograph well AT ALL!

So I Googled it and a beautiful photograph of the oldest door in Britain came up!  It was pretty cool (when you could actually see it!)

The last thing we walked by before exiting was the Coronation Throne.  It was kind of underwhelming after everything we had seen!

We were famished (after walking past 3,300 dead people) so lunch at the Blue Boar Pub was in order! We forgot to get a group photo (can you even imagine that?) but believe me, the food was delish!

One of Queen Elizabeth’s adorable corgis, Whiskey, was memorialized there!

After lunch we flagged down (literally) a BigBusTour bus and took a ride around town.

We saw a Waymo car zipping along.  They are weird looking cars, to be sure.

Because it was raining, we didn’t get many good photos—but we tried!

We hopped off the bus (luckily, the rain had stopped),

and headed back to our Airbnb to sit down for minute (literally a minute), before hopping back on a train to get to the area where our theatre was located and find a place for dinner before SHOW TIME!

We found another pub (imagine that!) and enjoyed another great English dinner.

And finally, it was time for the show.  The theatre was beautiful, our seats were AMAZING (good job, Dieds), and the show, Mama Mia, was outstanding!

The streets were packed with people when our show was over and we walked out the door.  It was a brisk, rainy night and by the time we spotted the London Eye, navigated the train yet again and walked back to our condo, it was time to say,

Good Night, London!