A Busy Day

This morning we caught our first double decker bus. Courtney quickly worked out the direction and bus number we needed and we were lucky enough to have the whole top deck to ourselves. We sat right at the front and had an awesome view of the streets below us.

We took the bus to Earls Court tube station where there is a real blue police box which is designed to look just like the TARDIS. We're not really sure what purpose the box serves but it looks like some sort of CCTV station.

From Earls Court we caught the tube over to Charing Cross Station. In another moment where you come out of the underground and know you are standing somewhere special, we walked up the steps and found ourselves standing in the middle of Trafalgar Square with all the monuments and fountains.

We walked to the M&M World which was four floors of every colour and merchandise you could think off! Awesome place - you can buy (and spend top dollar) on anything there and it will have an M&M logo on it. There was a wonderful smell of chocolate in the air.

Then we walked on the National Portrait Gallery which houses one of the weirdest things we have seen. Marc Quinn's sculpture entitled 'Self' is a self-sculpture made out of 8 pints of his own frozen blood!

Then we went to the National Gallery and saw works from Van Gogh and Monet. Dad and thecranegirls have really sponged up the culture in the last month. We have taken to stopping and looking at only the art which takes our fancy. There is just too much of it to take it all in.

To end the day, we went on to the British Cartoon Museum which was a little too political and over all our heads - so we went to the pub next door for a lemonade.