London so far...

Surprised Mom, she cried good tears. SAW THE QUEEN!!!
Yesterday, after going on the bus tour, stopping at the Tower of London, taking a boat on the Themes tour, going pee in the Tate Modern (we looked around today), we were making our way back to a tube station after being on the London Eye and I stopped on a corner to retie my shoe. Suddenly, a police motor bike dude pulled up into the middle of the intersection and started blowing his whistle for all the cars to stop. Wondering what the hell was up, as my nosy mother and I are prone to do, we waited on the corner to see. After another police bike dude, Mom had just said that "someone important is going to go by," when, sure has poop, the Queen is escorted by in her nice black car! We were so excited and flabbergasted. In fact, Mom was so excited that, even though she literally had her camera in her hand due to previous picture taking, it never occurred to her to lift it up and take a picture, or a video. But that's okay, because it is burned quite well into our memories :D.
Today, we went to Westminster Abbey, but there was some kind of meeting and they were running late opening the doors so we left in order to get good spots to watch the changing of the guard, a goal we were quite able to achieve. We then proceeded to find lunch before making our way to St. Paul's Cathedral, which we were also unable to go into because they closed early for some unexplained reason today. So, we walked across the Millenium Bridge and proceeded to have a tour through the Globe Theatre and then wandered through the Tate Modern. Now, productions of the Globe finished Sunday, as in the Sunday that just happened, so you can imagine my disappointment, but oh well. After the Tate, we went over to the National Gallery because it is open later on Wednesdays; however, due to some kind of strike there at the moment, half the galleries I wanted to see were not open.
So, as you can see, our luck was not quite with us today. But, we've seen so much that it doesn't matter anyway, lol. Going to go eat and sleep now.
Cheers!