Our last day in Europe

Well as expected yesterday was another big day... we had breakfast in the hotel at 8:15am and didn't get back in from dinner until 10pm.

We had a little time before out first stop, yes I know were were running ahead of time, unusual for us :) So we headed into Regent park for a little walk around. London has some really beautiful parks, that's for sure. We were able to see and get up close to some ducks, swans, pigeons and even some squirrels. The squirrels were very interested to find out what the camera tasted like.

First stop on the trip was Madame Tussaud's - a very cheesy stop but one we thought would be fun & not as intense as the other two places we were going and we were right :)

Not much can be said about it other than it is quite amazing how real some of those things look and we had fun posing for pics & watching other people and their poses.

Next stop was the Cabinet War Rooms & the Churchill Museum - these are both housed in the actually War Rooms that were used by Churchill and his crew during the war. It was very interesting to imagine how loud and busy it would have been down there during this time. We do know however that there would have been no whistling as Churchill hated it. We got to see most of the rooms down there one of which was the Map room which had the actual maps that were used during war time, which had graffiti about Hitler on them. Another room was his actual Chamber. This was interesting and a still had one of his cigars on the be side table.

We moved from here back to the Tube where were headed out to see the Imperial War Museum. This place was massive. We were there for about 3 hours and only got to cover about 40% of the things there. When we go back to London again, some day, we will have to finish this off. His had things from all the wars and major displays about WWI and WWII. That had lots of actual items on display and plenty of things to read. There was also a massive Holocaust exhibit. We were able to piece together the things that we had already heard and seen at Dachau and things made the experience even more moving. It was hard to comprehend how big Auschwitz was compared to Dachau. We were able to see a diorama of Auschwitz that helped us realize this, completely unbelievable.

It had been a long day, and we were both tired and not feeling the greatest. I think travel belly is getting the better of us now :) So we headed back to the hotel for a quick snack and a sleep before taking the 2nd last part of the journey.

Wont be long now until we can tell you some stories in person.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon