War & Tea on Friday

(Gene) The day included many stops. John mentioned a few already. I will mention the War Rooms Museum and the Churchill Museum. I had read about the War Rooms beforehand. Actually seeing them was amazing. Churchill had bunkers built under the Treasury Building. It was fascinating to see the actual place (un-touched) from which the war was orchestrated. Also, the newest addition of the museum just opened on Feb. 10th of this year. It chronicles Churchill's life. It was excellent .

We also went to St. Martin's in the Field. We heard a string octet practicing for their concert later tonight. We listened to Elgar's Serenade for Strings. It would have been nice to go to the concert but, we were tired from the day's walking. We elected to attend high tea in the Crypt Cafe. We enjoyed scones with clotted cream and raspberry jam. We had chocolate fudge cake and madera bread with candied cherries. It was terribly civilized!

Finally, John and I made on-line reservations to go to the London Eye tomorrow. We have gone there two days in a row, but the lines are just too long to simply show up and expect to get on quickly. We will go there first thing on Saturday morning with 9:30am reservations.

Our day ended with supper at the Blue Jade Thai Restaurant. It was the best Thai food I have ever had. It's strange - I had to come to London for the best Thai food.