Outings from first week and Photos

The first week outings were really amazing however, I wish we had more time to really take in what we are seeing. When we have group outings on weekends we have full day of going different places and on a schedule. So we dont always have to to really take everything in. Plus Dr. O-A who leads the outings walk soooo fast if we do not keep up we will loose him. But we all try to make sure no one gets left behind.
5 June we to the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey:
The tower of London was Remarkable to see everything first hand. A lot of what the tour guide told us I know already from my history course but to be able to actually see where the events took place was incredible experience. We saw the crown jewels meaning the real king and queen crowns unfortunately we were not aloud to take pictures when we were inside the towers. So everyone will just have to imagine or look up a picture of what they look like. LOL!!! Each crown was tons of huge and some small jewels on them. Some of these crowns are still worn on specially occussions. We also, Henery VII armour it is a brand new exhbit at the tower of London some are the orginial and some are copies. But all of them were custom made for him and it is kinda of funny but you can tell as you see each armour for the different decades how fat he got as time passed on I mean really fat.

Now For Westminster Abbey Samething we were not able to take pics inside but I have some outside. This was incredible inside we saw the actually tombs were some kings and queens are burried beneath the abbey. Which also, was kinda of creepy that ground we walking un people are burried underneath. But it was breathtaking to be in there. They had one section called poet lane and tons of peots and writters and even some actors had were honor with special plaques there. Now all of them were burried there but the plaques honor their memory.
That day went there was really fun day when we were at the tower we had sometime to go on are own and adventure out. everyone kinda of split into small groups and went off did there own thing for an hour. My group we went and saw the Henry the VII exhbit and we saw the changing of guards there. However, it was nothing compared to what we saw when we went to Buckingham Palaces.