Church & Chunnel

Sunday morning we grabbed an Uber and headed to Westminster Abbey for services. The tour ticket was pricey, but I’d read that anyone could attend a service so that’s what we did. They were insane about not taking photos, but I snuck a couple. The service was very...interesting. They had a guest choir in from Georgia and they did an excellent job. The Abbey was beautiful.

Looking up at the Abbey

Stunning.

Looking up during the service

The view walking out of the service

Mom after the service

We grabbed another Uber (Mom didn’t love the trains!) and got back to our side of town for lunch. I didn’t realize until later that I had forgotten to feed Mom breakfast. Good thing I never had kids!! They would starve! I wanted Mom to experience some real British food so we went to a pub for fish n’ chips with mushy peas and a chicken and mushroom pie. Mom was not sold on her fish n’ chips, but she loved the peas. My pie was amazing. I look forward to those things!

A traditional English lunch

Chicken and mushroom pie--YUM!

Mom did like the mushy peas

We checked out of our hotel and headed for the train station to catch the train to Paris. The train station was insanely busy, but we got on our train right on time and got to Paris as expected. We took a local train from the station was came into to get to the hotel. That train was insanely crowded. At that point Mom was officially over trains, I think. I got a little turned around coming out of the station, but nothing a little free Starbucks WiFi could not help us with. We got to the hotel pretty quickly only to find that they’d not separated our beds as we’d asked. Bummer. We'd be sleeping in close quarters again.

Dinner in Paris

A little gelato with a macaroon? YES!

Mom had a chocolate shake

After sneaking up to the roof to get the view of the Eiffel Tower, we went for a late dinner of steak frites. We actually had the same waitress that Jackson and I had earlier in the summer. She was lovely. I think Mom actually liked this dinner. We walked around the neighborhood, grabbed gelato and then retired for the evening. Despite being a Sunday night the area of Paris we were in (near Notre Dame) was hopping. I loved it.