This weekend we finally toured Westminster Abbey. Jessi literally walks by this amazing church every single day and we have taken tons of pictures of the outside and Ryan and I have even eaten Fish and Chips on the lawn of the Abbey. But we had never seen the inside until this Friday.
It was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately all i can show you is outside pictures because they won't let you use cameras inside. The abbey was built in 1050ad and has a long history. The Abbey has been the coronation site of every King and Queen for hundreds and hundreds of years.
The cool thing about these old churches is that they are full of tombs and vaults and gravestones of some of the most famous people of their times and Westminster is no exception. Big names you ask? How about Sir Isaac Newton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Emily Bronte, Rudyard Kipling, Handel, Charles Dickens, King Henry V, and many more. Princess Diana even had her funeral here.
They buried Oliver Cromwell here but dug him up and Hung him posthumously, then they displayed his head on a spike outside the abbey for 24 years. I guess they knew how to make an example of people back in those days.
Afterwards we swung by Hamley's which is an awesome 7 story toy store on Oxford street. We ate a nice dinner and did a little bit of shopping though an item we bought in the US for $25 dollars was 45 pounds here (roughly $85 dollars). Soooo we didn't shop too much but Ryan had a blast looking around and playing with the train set.
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