London: Day Three

On our last day in London, we had a flight to Marseille at 7:00 pm. But because of the long bus ride to the airport, we really only had the morning for sightseeing. We decided to cram as much in as possible! First, we walked across the Westminster Bridge to see the London Eye. {We didn't actually ride it because tickets are about 15 pounds for a half-hour.}

Then we saw the spectacular facade of the parliament building, because we only saw the under-construction side during our bike tour.

Next, we went to Westminster Cathedral, the main Catholic church in London. We took an elevator up to the tower and saw some amazing views of the city! {It's our goal to get an aerial view of each city we visit.} In the first picture below, you can see parliament, Westminster Abbey, and the London Eye. In the second picture, you can see Buckingham Palace.
 

The cathedral also had a really cool exhibit about the Shroud of Turin, which is currently on display in, well, Turin. It was almost as good as seeing the real thing! Our last stop of the day was the Victoria & Albert Museum. Our guidebook described it as the nation's attic, because there's such an odd collection of stuff in there. Since we only had an hour left, we each chose an exhibit to visit. I picked the fashion section, of course, which was amazing. On the left is a dress worn by Princess Diana and on the right is a dress worn by Princess Grace.
 

Adam chose an exhibit about stained glass and sacred silver. I guess that was pretty cool too!

After a quick bite for lunch, we hopped on the subway to pick up our luggage from the hostel. I was sad that a exhibit about Grace Kelly was opening at the V&A on Saturday and we were going to miss it. Then we saw a sign about volcanic ash delaying flights. Adam joked that we might just get to see that exhibit after all! When we got to our hostel, we almost headed to the airport, but decided to check Ryanair's website just in case. Sure enough, our flight was cancelled and the next flight to Marseille was on Sunday.

So, we had the weekend in London! Of course, we were excited to spend more time in such an amazing city, but we were getting pretty tired of sightseeing after almost two weeks. I didn't really take any more pictures while we were there. On Friday, we saw the Changing of the Guard {overrated}, went to another fancy department store, Fortnum & Mason {way nicer than Harrods} and went to the movies. On Saturday, we finally did laundry, went to the Natural History Museum, and enjoyed springtime in Hyde Park. On Sunday, we went to the movies again, saw the Grace Kelly exhibit, and had root beer floats with dinner.

Our flight was cancelled again on Sunday. It didn't look like we would be able to get back anytime soon, so we bit the bullet and bought tickets on the Eurostar to Paris.