London Day 4 - Friday July 18, 2014

Thursday was a big day, starting with the Tower of London...

Wakefield Tower, near where we entered the grounds:

First, we went to see the Crown Jewels, where again photography was not allowed, but we did see (clockwise from left] Queen Mary's Crown, Queen Victoria’s small diamond crown, Sovereign’s Sceptre with Dove, Mary II Orb, Imperial Crown of India, Exeter Salt:

Jill and Lindsay in front of the Waterloo Block, where the Crown Jewels are housed:

Lindsay in front of a small memorial for the location of several infamous beheadings: Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Lady Jane Grey, and others. The bodies are buried in the chapel behind Lindsay:

Jill & Glenn at the Tower of London, with the Tower Bridge in the background:

The White Tower:

The Tower Wharf:

"Traitors Gate" and the Tower Bridge:

Henry VIII's armor:

Carved faces of the kings listed in the photo below:

More armor:

Jill in front of the Queen's House:

Jill looking at Tower grounds from Henry III's water gate:

After the Tower of London we headed off to see some movie locations for "Shaun of the Dead," but I'll post all those photos separately...


In the evening we took a fun Thames River cruise, with photos below...


Lindsay and Jill on the cruise boat:

The London Eye:

The Millennium Bridge:

Passing under--guess what--London Bridge:

Passing by the HMS Belfast:

Passing by the Tower of London:

Passing under the Tower Bridge:

Tower Bridge with "The Shard" in the background:

For some reason the people on the boat were giving away pitchers of Pimms...so we did our part:

Strange site...Mississippi River boat passing under the Tower Bridge:

Parliament and Big Ben...our boat started and ended the cruise in between the white boats at the bottom of the picture:

Parliament and Big Ben one last time: