Bus Tour and the Tower of London

The weekend has finally arrived!! Jessi is off work and we went out to have a bit of fun. We bought tickets and joined the Original Bus Tour which are big doubldecker open top buses that run all over London. They have a commentator telling you all about the history of all the neat places in town.

We stopped by the house where Peter Pan was written, all kinds of parks, the London Eye, Big ben and Little ben, The houses of Parliament, the new scotland yard, where ian fleming lived, where the beatles shared an apartment together. The mayors house, the prime minsters house, the former prime minister Margret Thatchers house. Etc etc.

At the end of our tour we stopped at the Tower bridge and the Tower of London. Wow talk about amazing. We did a guided tour of the Tower of London which is a large complex of buildings that dates back to the Romans. Some of the existing Roman walls still stand though many things have been added or rebuilt since that time. We saw the Crown Jewels which includes the biggest diamond in the world 530 carats i believe it was. We saw the torture chambers inside the "Bloody Tower" Oh did I mention that this was the place where Kings and Queens were tortured and executed? Lots of macabre history in this spot. There is a church inside that has 1500 bodies buried under it including the bodies of 6 saints of the catholic church.

The Tower Bridge (often confused with the London bridge) is the neatest bridge we have ever seen. Jessi is quoted as saying "It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I cannot take enough pictures of it!"

Here is us outside of the Tower of London

The amazing Tower Bridge

Outside the Tower

The White Tower

Lots of guns and stuff!

An actual part of the wall build over 2000 years ago.

This is "The Rack" the famous torture device that slowly makes you taller and better looking.