Friday was the last day that the Queen's State Rooms at Buckingham Palace was going to be open. If you get your ticket validated when you leave, you can come back for free, so we decided that we would do a quick trip there before I had to go into work. We were in line when they opened and went through fairly quickly, mainly lingering in places that had been really crowded before (like the display with the wedding dress and other things from Queen Elizabeth's wedding.) We also were able to get pictures of the back of the palace this time...woohoo
the back of the palace
Window to the Music room
One of the large decorative urns
Tami at Buckingham Palace
After the palace, we went to grab some lunch. I had seen a Benihana on the way back from Scotland that Tami had not seen, so I surprised her by taking her there. It was really good, nice to have Japanese again, although the soup and everything was much better here. It should have been though, it was much more expensive!
Saturday, September 29
Today we decided to take it easy and went back down to Borough Market to get supplies for the week. I have been addicted to the olives that they sell at one of the vendors down there. After that, we headed over to the Piccadilly Circus/Oxford Circus area to buy sweaters to prepare for our trip out to Stonehenge. Most of our winter clothes are going to be coming over in October, and we had heard it was really cold out there. We were able to find some that weren't too expensive, and ended up stopping at the Cheers bar for a quick drink. For some reason, they made a replica of the bar from the sitcom Cheers and plopped it down at Piccadilly Circus. It was nice to give us a chance to rest our feet since we had been carrying around a bunch of heavy bags all day. From there, we just headed back to the apartment to listen to the UGA game.
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