Last Day in London!

Hi everyone! Well since we wrote you all last, we've had some busy time and some down time to still try to catch up on much needed sleep adjustment. The bus company we've been using is great. It really gets you around the city. And sitting up on the top gives you a great birds eye view of the cool buildings and the designs. We went and did the London Eye. It's a great big type ferris wheel across the Thames from Big Ben. It's quite high and when you are at the top you can see quite a bit in every direction. It takes about 1/2 hour to do the rotation and it doesn't stop moving. It was great. Then we went off and saw the Tower of London. What is really strange is how they have preserved as many of their old buildings as they could, but they build new skyscrapers around them. The tower of London is built with modern buildings all around it. It's way bigger than I thought. And it had been used for many reasons. It was originally built by William the Conquerer in 1066 a.d. and added on to with each king after. But it is most famous for the famous and royal executions they did there. So it became a dreaded place of being sent to as it meant your death. They also had a vaulted room there that contained the crown jewels. I had no idea what to expect, but they had crowns dating back to the 1600's and every possible additional thing that went with coronations imaginable. They were beautiful and I couldn't imagine being the person wearing all that splendor or money. We also went in St. Paul Cathedral. Sir Christopher Wren designed and built it (along with several other buildings in the city) and he is buried there. I found out that this is the church where Prince Charles and Diana got married, not Westminster Abby. It also had it's own beauty on the inside. The stone in West Minster Abby was almost a dark grey where as the stone in St. Paul's was almost a white stone and a lot cheerier.
We also went on a river cruise up and down the Thames. The water was a murky brown and very rough. I had heard the current is very strong and the river is fast, and it sure looked that way as we navigated up and down. We had a very funny guide explaining all the buildings along the shore.
We've also just rode the bus around the city on the different routes just to see everything, as you could spend days here and not see it all. Plus the fact that there is a lot of traffic and when you are in the downtown area, it can take quite a while to get just a couple of miles. Especially if it's a one way street with roundabouts. We never found the time to travel out into the countryside. Quite honestly, I don't know how we could of done that unless we spent a fortune for a driver.
But we got to do a lot in 3 days. As everything costs so much we had to pick and choose our preferences.
This morning as we were about to leave, I thought I heard what sound like a lot of horses hooves clic clac down the street below us. When I opened the curtain and looked down, there was a line of about 15 riders each ponying an unsaddled horse on each side in formation going down the street toward the busy Oxford street. The riders looked military. Where they came from and where they were going, couldn't say but boy did they look out of place but the horses were beautiful.
Well we are off to Paris in the morning. We are allowing a lot of time so we are heading out right after breakfast as Waterloo Station is huge and we don't know exactly how to navigate it. We want to allow extra time for getting lost in the station. We should be in our hotel by afternoon. Paris is going to seem so different from here. Can't wait to see it.
Hope all of you at home are well. We miss you loads.
Lots of love from us to you!