beefeaters, magical trees, and double decker buses

So today we had our "be the quintessential tourist" day, so we started off taking the bus to buckingham place to see the changing of the guard, which was pretty exciting, lots of tourists.... lots and lots of french people, caitlin and i think it must be spring break for all of france, we've seen more french people than we've seen english people... so after the changing of the guard we walked through green park to hyde park, where we walked through the beautiful rose garden... everything is so green here! also, it's very humid. i feel like i'm never going to dry off. my hair is way curly and frizzy..... and i really want to go to the beach, so after amsterdam, we may go to disneyland paris, and then down to the mediterranean.... horrayyyyy! anyways, we found a magical inside out-ish tree in hyde park and went inside of it, there was magic. and faeries. and leprechauns. then we walked to westminster abbey and big ben. super awesome... but westminster abbey was expensive, so we decided that we were going to go to the tower of london instead... so we took the bus over to the tower of london from trafalgar square on a double decker bus! the tower of london was huge, we got to go through all of the towers and see where the kings and queens lived and we got to see the torture chamber... and we got to see the crown jewels!!!!! i need some of those. really. and when i get diamonds i need to name them. then we took the bus home! and now it's late, we were out for 9 hours and 45 minutes... lonnngg day.... we're going to go grab a pint of strongbow, crash and take the 5:57am train out of here!!! night!