Day 8- London

We were both pooped when we woke Tuesday morning. Had we been staying longer, I'm pretty sure this would have been a 'do nothing' day. We had eaten the breakfast buffet at the hotel the two previous mornings, but I wasn't all that impressed with it so I talked Chris into eating breakfast at a charming little shop near our hotel called The Muffin Man. It turned out to be a nice little spot. Unfortunately they didn't take credit cards and we were almost out of cash, so we had to scrape together all of our change to pay the bill.

We went on over to the British Museum and although it's a great museum, we just weren't into it again. We walked through several rooms and then encountered mass chaos as we entered the room with the Egyptian mummies. Oh my goodness, we were waist-high in school children. There were hundreds of them packed into that room peering in at all of the mummies. We couldn't even get near most of the cases. I'm not sure if it's that packed every weekday, but it was nuts. We had to get out of there. I did get near enough to snap a picture of this unfortunate fellow who seemed especially gruesome to me.

And then some teacher decided that the doorway leading out to the main atrium would be the perfect place to regroup and count heads. There were maybe 50 6th or 7 th graders all converged in the doorway and were not moving. We eventually had to resort to nudging the little dears to get them to stop gabbing long enough to step aside and allow us to pass. We had both been looking forward to looking through that area and were a bit disappointed that it was that chaotic. I was a little surprised they would let that many school groups in at the same time.

We were both a little put off at this point and like I mentioned earlier, probably just a bit cranky and tired, so we decided to forgo an afternoon excursion. We had thought about going to the maritime museum, the Tower of London or St. Paul's Cathedral. So they're on our list for our next trip :)

The whole time we were in London, we had been on the lookout for a certain brand of very expensive scotch a friend asked us to bring back and hadn't had any luck locating it. The concierge said to try Harrod's, which is a massive store filled with just about anything you might possibly need, so we spent a couple of hours browsing there. No luck, though we did find several souvenirs to bring back and had lunch there.

This Steiff display was in the toy section and was very large. All of the animals moved around, so I guess a video would have been a bit more impressive.

After Harrod's, it was back to the hotel to get packed up to fly back to reality the next morning.