Tuesday, June 10, 2014: Beatles Twice!

7:37 pm

In the morning we set out for Kensington Park, where there was an giant Peter Pan-themed playground with a full-size pirate ship. Everyone was having tremendous fun climbing to the crow's nest.

After that, we took the Tube (that's what they call the Metro in England) to Baker Street, where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set most of his 19th century Sherlock Holmes stories. He lived at 221B, where they had the official Sherlock Holmes museum.

Our current President

Striking a pose with Michael Jackson

But then came my favorite part: Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. Hundreds of figures made entirely of wax. It takes about three months to make one figure, but Madame Tussaud's has been going on for a long time, ever since the original Madame Tussaud made wax masks for the executed royals in the French Revolution. Here's a few pictures:

Me with Shrek

The Dalai Lama

After Madame Tussaud's, we went to Abbey Road, where the Beatles walked across for their album cover. Here's a picture of that:

And here's a picture of us at the exact place they did that:

After that we took the Tube and then the London Overground (bus) back to our semi-neighborhood.