On we go to London town

Bad news on the permanent home situation. Well, not BAD news, just delayed good news. We'll move into it eventually, I'm just having to be patient. If we've been homeless 3.5 months, what's an extra week or two...well, its the straw breaking this camel's back but we'll survive. 

Good news is that we had a free weekend and we took advantage of it. Since Lizzie can't be in our current home, she's being boarded nearby in someone else's and we're getting picture updates. She's having a fine time going on long walks and making friends with their cats leaving us free to easily leave for the whole day! We took the train into London , walked across the London bridge (not very interesting but as they say, the best part is that you get to enjoy the views with the other bridges in them!) and visited the Tower of London. 

Covid stinks and its messed up a lot of our plans BUT the upside to that is the places we are able to go to around here are pretty empty. We had the train car to ourselves but when we were talking to the housekeeper here, she said normally by our station its standing room only! The Tower of London had a short line at the entrances because they checked tickets, did tracking check-in and bag checks, but after that it was smooth sailing. We walked right in to see the crown jewels and kids were shocked when I pointed out the metal queue railings that were often used. 

This is a random shot but that plaque on the floor says that according to Tradition, this is the spot where Henry III died. Now, we aren't trying in school work to our travels but our Ambleside Online, our main curriculum, starts with a heavy British history focus before it continues to American so it just so happened that the very day after we saw this spot, we read about Henry III in our Island Story!

C only took one photo so of course we had a blinker. But I had Jonah's camera so we might have a better one on that, I just haven't been able to check yet. 

After we finished up, we headed back to the train via the Tower Bridge (seen behind us here). It's much prettier.

And of course since our train switch happened to be a King's Cross Station, we had to find Platform 9 3/4! We had just enough time for pictures and a quick walk through the store and look at the wands before popping onto the next train and heading "home." 

The professional photographer helps you pose even if you don't buy the stores photos and just use your own but Jonah wasn't having any of that. 

Norah took a couple tries before she was brave enough to go. She wanted me with her but then refused to look at the camera and opted for the realistic shot of a kid sad they are headed off to school. 

Our permanent home will be a slightly longer but still very reasonable day trip train ride to London which means we get to explore it just one or two attractions at a time.  I wasn't sure how well they'd all do but it went really well and I'm excited about doing it again! (Although next time, I need to make sure I'm in at least one photo at our destination!