We are here and going to hit the beaches.  Utah .. Omaha and all the other Normandy beaches.  What a beautiful and quaint little twon with little roads.  We rented a van.  The one we rented was not available so they gave us a bigger van.  An 8 seater.  We thought that was great until we got into Bayeux.  The streets are very narrow and confusing.  I am sure I am not getting out of this town without hitting something. 
But what a wonderful town.  Everywhere you look they have what looks like an ancient building.  The church is right in the middle of everything.

Here it is all lite up as we walked back from parking the car in the free parking area.  Parkimg is at a premium around here. 
Also were not in London anymore.  They speak a different language here.  That will be a challenge and much more difficult and gun.  I am hoping to learn some words before we leave. 

Waiting for the 12:57 to Calais

Sausage . Bacon . Egg over easy . and beans . Coffee and toast

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Its a travel day for us and its sad to be leaving this wonderful city of London.  I especially love the people.  Here you can stand waiting to cross the street and hear any language being spoken by people right next to you.  Not only that but these people look like they could be from portland …

We are taking a train and going underneath the english channel and we will be getting off in Calais France.  We are renting a car there and making a 4 hoir drive to Bayeux where we have a place for 4 nights and going to be exploring the normandy beaches.

We went to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.

I wasnt tall enough too see the event.
The rest of the day went
Museum .. Pub .. Museum .. Pub .
You can guess what the highlights were for me …
The first museum was mostly statues and art. It has to be my favorite museum so far. Everywhere you looked there was a place to sit down. Mamy of these museums make you stand alot.

The next museim was at the british library. We saw the Magna Carta and the avtual writings of leonardo daVinchi. Did you know he wrote stuff right to left and backwsrd in Italian. You neede a mirror to read what he wrote (and the ability to read italian). This was so people couldnt steal his ideas … wow …

Today was the churchhill warroom. 
Everyone got a good nights sleep and we were up and out of the house by 11:30.  We stopped at pret a manger a chain coffee shop.  The starbucks of UK.  We then arrived at the war room.  We spent 3 hours learning about churchhill.  It was great and learn alot. 

Then we went to Harrods.  A huge shopping center with very high end type of stuff to buy.  We got in and out very quickly.   Then we had dinner and home exhausted.  This tourist stuff is hard work. 

Heres a picture of big Ben with Scott and Bunny…

We got back to the flat at 6.  I slept til 8 and then went out for some groceries.  It midnight and bens off to bed and scott and i are up watvhing a bruce willis movie and listening to it rain really hard out.  We r suppose to do buckingham palace tomorrow….

Yestetday was a big day for walking.  The Tower of London was on the todo list today.  We got there and the lines were not too long so we paid our 70 lbs and went in.  A tour started at  12:45 pm and so we listen to a choir singing fpr 15 mins.  The beefeaters tour started .. the tour guide Bob was great and really funny.

We went thru the gounds of the tower of london.  Saw weapons
. Armour …  and the crown jewels
  It was about 4 pm and we were tited and hungry.  We walked out and it started to rain.  Ben once again found a great place to have a late lunch.  It was right across the street from the tower of london and full of character. 

We had lunch and started to talk about whats next.  Bunny mentioned going to a movie in the evening and i knew i would last about 5 mins in a movie theater before i wouldd be asleep.  Everyone decided to go back to the flat and relax.  I think everyone was really tired…

Its 6:30 am and its goimg to be our first day in london.  We need to have converter plugs … the ones i bot in the US are junk and dont work.  Scotts awake also … so we decide to walk to a elevtronics store over in the same area as we were the previois night
. It opens at 8am.  So Scott and i get cleaned up and take off at 7:30.  We ki.d of got lost on the way but it was rush hour for everyone and it was crowded and bussilling with people trying to get to work.  We got our electronic converters and made our way bavk to the flat.  We got back and bunny and ben wrte still asleep.  We got everyone ready and its off to the british museum to see the mummies.  We got there a little before noon and it wasnt that crowded. 

We spent about 4 hours looking at ancient egyption ruins and mummies.  We then went to the national gallery to look at Art.  I dont get looking at art…
So then we ate off to have dinner in the soho disyrict of london.  The soho area of london is known for its chinese resturants.  We choose one and had a great meal with lots of food left over to bring home.