Day 12

Hello all and Greetings from England,

Today our cruise ended :( but last night we did finally dress up. We went to the steak house on the boat and shared a 32 oz. porterhouse steak. We were both stuffed so bad we had to take the dessert back to our room. I think it was a good ending to the cruise though. After packing everything up and setting it outside the room for them to load on to the pier we went to sleep. When we awoke the this morning there wasn't much to do but pack the carryons and head to the theater for our tour. On a side note I am kicking myself right now. I was such a genius buying all these glass souvenirs. My whole bag is full of glass so I am doing my best to get it all home without breaking anything. But anyway we left the ship with our tour group and got all of our bags on the dock to carry them to the bus. Then we loaded up the bus and started our two hour ride to the heart of London. Before we headed to London we went up on a hill and looked at Dover Castle. We got rain today so it was hard to see it clearly but I still love the look of a true castle. Once in London our first stop was supposed to be the Tower of London, but the turn for it was closed so our bus driver drove all over the place trying to find another way in but he couldn't. The tour guide decided that we should go to the St. Paul's Cathedral because we were right there. We couldn't go into it because it cost money and we didn't have enough time so we walked around it and the guide talked a little about it. After taking a small bathroom break we were back to attempting to find our way to the Tower of London. But unfortunately all roads were block and we couldn't go. Both of us were very bummed because that was one of the places we had really looked forward to going to. I guess we will have to visit it another time. We then headed down to Traffalga Square, were we got a lunch break. Jeremy and I ended up shopping instead. We found a really cool spy glass in a case that was on "Sale". It has a plaque were we can have it script with London, England when we get home. We then headed around town again (it feels like all you do is circle around this town) we passed Big Ben, Scotland yard, Westminster Abbey and little Ben. Then we stopped at Buckingham Palace, we walked around to the front and took some pictures. The queen was not there, they say she goes other places on the weekends. The guards that were in front weren't the usual ones with a red suite and tall black hats. They were called shirkers and they wore a white uniform with a small black hat. But after that it was off to the airport and then on to a shuttle to get to our motel for the night. I guess tomorrow we start our adventure home. So hopefully all goes well. It looks like we are going to go through JFK and then hopefully on to SLC if everything goes well.