Saturday, September 11, 2010

London: Random Street Sites and Temple Church

So after we finished up at the Parliament area we began walking again. Brent really wanted to find the Temple Church. You see he just finished reading Angel's and
Demon's, which means he kept saying "don't you remember this from the book?". Well I kept saying no because I read the book over five years ago, I mean seriously!

ANYWAY, on our journey we kept finding cool things like this statue of a random dragon.



We also realized that Brent's phone was no longer working so we had no alarm. That is why we went into a little shop and bought this one for 5 pounds. Well it worked once and since then we can't figure out how to get it to work, sometimes it will and sometimes it won't! I guess we should have spent the extra pound or two to get a solid one! Oh well, I love being on vacation.

After many adventures, and taking more than once wrong turn we found the Temple Church!

Well if Tom Hanks can sneak into the temple, we surely should be able to get in when it is closed during construction... No such luck! I did overhear a tour guide say that Tom Hanks was never in this one, he was filmed on a sound stage in L.A.

After we found the Temple Church we found another church that look like a fun place. it is funny becaus eyou are just walking, will look down a small alley and see this massive structure!
I think you were suppose to pay to get in but there was no one there so we just kept walking and no one stopped us... Gorgeous lay out!


Down below there were tombs. This is an iron casket. It was tiny, how did people fit in there anyway? They used iron because body snatchers would come pull up the body if they weren't clamped down!

This is an alter we found on the tomb layer. It looked like it was all set up. It would creep me out to have service in a burial spot...
This part of the day was a fun adventure. With no where really big to go we kinda followed our noses and found some cool spots that we weren't expecting. I just wish I did a better job of remember the names of everywhere we went.

By the way, after this part of our London Experience it was about 12:00 on the first day!

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