Adventures & disasters

the happily out-of-date adventures of Lesley

Monday, November 20, 2006

Hyde Park

Another great day in London. We met our new pal Ravi who treated us to a yummy dinner at his fave London grubbin' spot Pizza Express and then we caught the musical "Blood Brothers." Good times.

Earlier in the day, we walked around Buckingham Palace, and saw the The Winston Churchill Museum. This is a seriously cool museum. It's the underground shelter where Churchill lived and made all his war time decisions in WWII during the Blitzkrieg of London. My grandma lived through the bombings in London, so it was fun for me to see a piece of that history.

The day the war was over, it's like everyone just stopped what they were doing and left the bunker. So practically everything is intact and in it's place. Even a funny cartoon someone drew of Hitler on one of the strategy maps on a wall. You also learn a lot about Churchill, who was a pretty clever and sassypants guy.

http://churchillmuseum.iwm.org.uk

We also walked through the gorgeous and HUGE Hyde Park. The squirrels there are used to getting feed by people and of course we obliged. The only problem is, those suckers are aggressive. At one point I was feeding a furry friend, feeling much like snow white - when I looked over and a squirrel had crawled all the way up Robbie's pants and onto his hip!! Man, I wish I had a picture of those shenanigans. I was too busy trying to stop laughing and maintain a dry pair of knickers.



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