Boxing Day

Last night we ordered room service for the first time in our lives (we think). It was pretty good, too. The hotel has a little DVD stand so we checked out a movie and snuggled in for the night.

This morning we got up at a decent hour to help the people of London celebrate BOXING DAY. I'm not sure what it is other than a reason for stores to have sales the day after Christmas. Anyway, who are we to poo-poo a celebration? We went to the hotel's restaurant for our complimentary breakfast. GAG! We ordered scrambled eggs. BIG MISTAKE. They looked like yellow cottage cheese and tasted like crap. UGH! I seriously want to hurl just thinking about them. They did have great seasonal fruit and "Frosties" (aka Frosted Flakes). 

Then we headed out to see the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge. 
Along the way, I noticed that the subway had a grammatical error. How annoying. 

Jackson's reaction to my taking a photo of the sign. Priceless. 
We ate lunch at a quaint little hamburger stand called McDonald's. They said they had a few locations in the States, too. ;) Sue us. We had a crappy breakfast and wanted some "good" food. Look at how happy Jackson is with that Big Mac in his hand. :)
This is out of order, but tonight in Chinatown we saw this restaurant and it reminded Jackson of the Duckwall family. Weirdo. 
We did some shopping in the afternoon and even stopped in at a grocery store to see what it was like. We are spoiled in America! Their meat selection lead me to reprise an old favorite song to sound a little something like this: 

God Bless America,

Home of good meat....

HA :)

So we came back and took a little nap. I just cannot get down with the time change here. Then headed back out to HARROD'S. 
Isn't it gorgeous? I LOVED the green! 
I did not buy a single thing for three reasons:

1. It was the most expensive store that I have entered in a looong time

2. We were packed in there with about 40,000 other people

3. I felt it needed to be mentioned again that it was EXTREMELY expensive

So we went to Chinatown to eat dinner and ended up at a place called "Pizza Express." Classic. It was actually great pizza, very similar to Pizza King in Marion. YUM! 

That was about all of our day. We hopped a train back to the hotel and we're packing for our journey to Scotland in the morning. We will likely not have much internet access after tomorrow morning, but we'll try to post when possible.

We keep seeing this sign in the Tube Stations and thinking of MacKenzie. We miss her.