Westminster Abbey and Afternoon Tea.

On Saturday we let ourselves start a little later than usual so that we could get caught up on sleep. We've all kind of been pushing ourselves to the point of exhaustion so it was much needed.


Once we finally got out the door we made our way to Westminster Abbey and walked around there for awhile listening to the audio guide. This was a cathedral that I loved and had a lot of fun exploring and learning about. There are a lot of tombs throughout Westminster and I actually recognized the names on a lot of them. I always get super excited when I'm traveling around and see things that I remember learning about in various classes or reading about in books, so I really liked walking around the cathedral putting together pieces of history. Sadly Hillary was not feeling good at all , so she left early to go home and sleep more.


After too little time exploring Westminster we rushed to the Orangery at Kensington Gardens for afternoon tea. This is something that we heard about as a must-do in London, and it definitely was a new experience. Tea is a big part of English life, and the Orangery is the perfect place to experience it, with it's amazing surroundings of the gardens and it's "posh" crowd. We were happy to discover this place with mom and can't wait to get dressed up and take Hillary back another day. (We'll have to take pictures then since we were a little rushed to get mom to the airport.)