Recent Things.

Hello!

Since yesterday was Sunday it was our day off! That meant more touristy things. So, we went to the Tower of London. I was told that this was a tower where they executed people back in the day. That wasn't exactly what it ended up being...it was actually a royal palace. It was cool to see some historical stuff and so much of the architecture was beautiful.
There was a torture chamber with some really grody torture inventions, as well as bedrooms and royal chambers and cases with all of the weapons and armor and such.




There was also an EPIC view of the iconic Tower Bridge.










We also saw these guys with the funny hair.

Fun fact: there are seven ravens walking the grounds of the Tower of London. Legend has it that if one flies away, the tower and the whole monarchy will fall down. So the beefeaters (the guy in the funny uniform in the picture on the right) clip their wings so they can't fly away. This is a picture of the beefeater feeding the raven a lamb heart. Revolting. Things I have discovered - ravens are MASSIVE birds. They also don't really chirp like normal birds...it was more of a bark. You may think he's cute,
but I assure you he's not.
Scary stuff.
Straight out of Edgar Allen Poe.

 This is a dragon in the Tower of London. His name is Keeper apparently. It represents a bunch of British institutions...like military, government, monarch...and it's protecting jewels. I thought he was cool.

So that was my Sunday afternoon! At night we went to see The Great Gatsby at the Vue Cinema in Leceister Square. I know you're probably thinking that I can do that in America...and I can. However, it was a nice Sunday night activity. No regrets.


Tonight I went to see Les Miserables at the Queen Theatre in the West End. I had a pretty annoying restricted view as you can see below. But it didn't matter because I just wanted to hear the pretty voices. And hear the pretty voices I did. SO INCREDIBLE. Jean Valjean was the most amazing voice I have heard in a long time. I'm very pleased.

And that has been my past few days!