London - Thanksgiving 2009 (last day)

Our last day in London, we wanted... well ok, *I* wanted to go see Kensington Palace and Gardens.  So we took the tube over.  

 

 

When we arrived, they said we should allow 2-3 hours to tour the palace, and we only had about an hour before we had to head back to get our luggage and head over to the train station. So we ended up just walking around the gardens a bit.  

In front of the palace, there's this cool statue of Queen Victoria - she was born there.

It was a rainy day, and though we wandered a bit looking for the Peter Pan statue and I wanted to see the Princess Diana memorial fountain, the kids were complaining pretty early on, so we headed back.  Another time.  

We got some lunch in the Marylebone train station - pasties, yum! 

Apparently a chain... good nonetheless.  :)

The station is a little marketplace... I thought the flower vendor was cool. 

And that's it for London for now.  We missed so many things, but we had a great time seeing what we did.  We learned not to expect to get so much stuff into one day with the kids.  Scott and I can knock out a city full of tourist attractions (like Boston or New Orleans) in a couple days, but the kids just can't move that fast.  And if you try to make them, woe is you.  I'm glad we're so close that it will be easy to go back, even just for a day at a time.  Everyone we talked to here was surprised that we were staying over since it's only an hour away, but we're glad we did.