Sunday, September 20, 2009

London Finale

Buckingham Palace

The London Temple - we were just about to walk through the doors (yes, all the way over in London, England) and I looked in my purse for my recommend - NOT THERE - ahhhhh I then realized that I had left it in my temple bag in UTAH!! Oh, I couldn't believe it!!! We did end up going in after we talked to the Temple President and I showed him my driver's license!

This was a memorial built by Queen Elizabeth ( I think - I can't keep all the Kings and Queens straight!) for her husband, the King, so now Brady has an example of my expectations when I die - except mine needs to be BIGGER!!!! he he j/k
According to history, this was the ONLY King and Queen who really LOVED each other so that is why the memorial was so GRAND!

The infamous BIG BEN - this picture is of the side, the front is even better because it doesn't look so old and is covered in gold! If you enlarge the picture you can see ALL the detail - it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!

And, we couldn't leave "Kings Cross Train Station" w/out visiting platform 9 and 3/4ths - which they made especially for Harry Potter fans!! (even though Brady isn't really one, he had to pose for the picture!!)

3 comments:

Esther said...

hahahaha brady! That's a great pose and what a good sport. I'm so glad you were able to go to the temple! what a neat experience.

rsheedy said...

I love when people cater to us fanatics...it's so awesome that they did that platform! And Big Ben looks incredible; someday I hope to see some of those sights for myself. What an incredible experience!

The Wright's said...

You lucky girl! What a fun vacation!