Easter Weekend/Mom's Visit - Saturdat

Saturday morning it was still rainy and cold but we got up and going and took the bus to Borough Market - a popular fine food market that originated in medieval times! http://www.boroughmarket.org.uk/

A typical london bus ride in typical london weather

For breakfast I had probably the BEST grilled cheese sandwhich I've ever had! It was such a cool market! I will definitely be going back.

From the market we walked over to The Shakespeare's Globe Theater (http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/). The theater is built of wood and only half covered so because of the weather we didn't get to see a play but did get a nice tour. Here's a thought - in Shakespeare's time the front row was not desired. In fact that's where the lower class was crammed in - like thousands into a tiny little space. To make matters worse, there were no tickets so you paid to get in and if you left, like to go to the bathroom, you may have been charged even more when re-entering. So what did people do? They simply went to the bathroom standing up smooched all ontop of one another! Nice.

After the Globe Theater we walked next door to the Tate Modern (Britain's premier modern art museum: http://www.tate.org.uk/). Once we had enough of modern art (which thankfully we're on the same page and was about 45 minutes later) we walked across the Millenium bridge (which Londoners call the wibbly wobbly bridge) over to St. Paul's Cathedral.

Me standing on the Wibbly Wobbly Bridge

St. Paul's Cathedral is really something else! It's gorgeous !!! It was built by Sir Christopher Wren. He started it in 1675 and it was completed in only 35 years! This is where the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana took place - FANCY!

After an audio tour of St. Paul's we dedcided we'd give Westminster Cathedral another try however when we got there it was closed once again. So, we're now 0 for 2. So we walked over to Trafalgar Square - ok I dragged my mom over to Trafalgar Square so I could see it and then headed up to Notthinghill for dinner. We ate at Geales (http://www.geales.com/) just around the corner form the Nottinghill Gate tube stop.

Trafalgar Square/National Gallery