Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Lions, paintings, dragons and swords

Hokey tourist stuff can be SO cool.  The kids loved the lion statues in Trafalgar Square and were right up there climbing them with the other visitors for a long while.

The National Gallery was less of a hit, for us it may have been one museum too much?  The paintings are world class and I am glad we walked through.  The building itself is amazing.  Next door and equally beautiful is St. Martins-in-the-Field where we were lucky to catch the end of a concert and then take tea in the Crypt!

Most of the day was spent roaming and people-watch, mainly in and around Covent Gardens with its street performers.  Everyone should have a day of this at least once!

             

Breaking up all the fun chaos, we took in a 3D movie: How to Train Your Dragon.  It was actually really cute and we had the theater nearly to ourselves.  The only thing left after that was an exotic dinner at Archipelago and the long ride back out to the 'burbs.

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