Boxing Day

Sorry this is waaay overdue I was having problems figuring out how to use Blogspot (and to some extent the Internet in Hebrew). Boxing day is the day after Christmas, celebrated mostly only in England it is nearly as much of a holiday as Christmas itself. That behind us it will now be no surprise to you that almost everything was closed for our final day in Great Brittan. We started off our day with a trip to King's cross station - both to get where we were going and to see a fabled platform 9 3/4 :). Sadly the train portion of the station had been closed down and wasn't scheduled to be opened until Saturday at 10. So one thing quickly off of our "to see" list we continued on our way. Then we went to the London Eye - one of the world's largest fariswheels. It's huge! it is on the banks of the Thames and goes up about 200 ft. into the air. The next thing we did was go to Hyde park and that neighborhood. "That neighborhood" includes the LDS church there and many museums. Sadly the museums too were closed, as was the church building, but at least we got some pictures there. the park was really cool, both figuratively and literally. It is a park of titanic proportions and was a pretty pretty place. Deb had been wanting to see a statue of Peter Pan they had there, so we went and looked at that and then ate lunch and left. After that all we did was go to the Airport. We has been told that people were supposed to check in three hours early for international flights, so we did - then we waited for two and a half hours.