A Saturday in London

 We were up, ready and down for breakfast by around 9am. An hour later and we were ready to go and explore the city of London.

Our first stop was Leicester Square. There are ticket offices there for the theatres. The tickets can be got at a good discount. We wanted to see Rock of Ages, or The Body Guard or The Lion King or Billy Elliot. However all of these, even with the discount were way above our budget. We were about to give up when we found one more ticket office. The guy in here was actually from Northern Ireland. He used to go with his mum and dad to do shopping in Sandy Row and he went to the school of music down Donegall Pass. How funny is that! 

So we explained our situation to him and how we only had so much money to spend on the musical, so he went through the different musicals and showed us which musicals he could probably get us tickets for at that price. He got us fantastic seat for the musical Shrek. We took it. He was just so helpful and we enjoyed chatting to a really helpful person from the homeland.

It was then out to explore. We went to see the Parliament buildings and Big Ben. It was then that I discovered that I had forgotten the card for my camera!!! Argghhhhh how stupid am I?!!! I had left it in my computer and it was in the hotel room!!! I found a wee shop and bought a new card - the day was saved!

We then decided we wanted to see Westminster Abbey. We found the exit we needed to go out of to get to the Abbey. We were sure we understood the map. It said the Abbey was straight ahead. So we went out and walked straight ahead. We walked and we walked but we weren´t seeing any Abbey!! We did however discover Downing Street.

 We walked and walked and still there was no Westminster Abbey. We heard church bells and we were sure that they must be coming from Westminster. We walked and walked again and ended at Trafalgar Street.

 We saw a church over to the right and thought that must be Westminster Abbey....(how stupid are we?!!) It turned out not to be!! What a shock we got - how could we miss seeing a big church. Totally baffled we went for lunch. It was then that a sweet fella, overhearing us talking about where the Abbey had disappeared too, came to the rescue and told us how to get there. We had to go back the way we came. It was then we discovered that instead of walking straight out from the tube we should have turned around -Westminster Abbey was in full view!! Why didn´t we do that??!! Us two and reading maps, we are just not good at that! Anyway we got to see Downing Street and Trafalgar Square.

It was then off to visit the Queen. It was so cold and she didn´t even invite us in for tea! Very disappointed!!

We had a bit of a wee dance outside the palace. It was then home to get warmed up. We ate dinner at the hotel´s restaurant and then we got ready to head out again to the theatre to see Shrek.

The musical was absolutely fantastic. We sooo enjoyed it.

It was then home to our lovely warm hotel room. It was so cold out. We are so exhausted now, our legs ache. London is so big and there are so many people on the tube. It´s a wonderful City but I am so glad that I don´t live here and have to use the tubes every day with all those people! 

Tomorrow we are heading into Hillsongs of London, I am really lookng forward to see how they do church. Then we think we will check out Convent Gardens before heading out to see Donny.