Tower of London!

On this day we went to the Tower of London.

The Tower holds a few things of significance.

One being the Crown Jewels, Including the 

Star of Africa

It is the largest cut diamond  in the world!

Next only to an ugly brown one only 15 carats bigger.

The Star of Africa is

530 carats!

You know me well enough to know that I would have provided pictures.

But.

They weren't allowed.

This man, 

is a guard outside the building

that keeps the Crown Jewels.

He is not allowed to move,

or smile,

or blink.

Hardly.

Leave it to BYU girls

to make him laugh.

Lindsey: "Oh wow, he's pretty cute."

Guard: *Statue*

Lindsey: "Yeah look at those lips! Those look kissable."

Guard: *Full on chuckle* *Statue again*

It was great

This is where they live.

These carvings were all over the room where the prisoners were kept.

While confined in a tower all day, 

what else would you do?

 It was amazing to see how deep and intricate some of the carvings were.

Creepy tower stairs...

This is my scared face

After the Tower we moseyed over to the Borough Markets.

As soon as we walked in we were handed food samples from just about every booth!

I got to taste some real live Turkish Delight,

a plethora of sweets and chocolate,

some really really good curry,

yummy fried fish,

fresh fruit smoothies,

and lots of other random really good food.

I might have to go back to this one. 

The squid tentacles hanging over

 the edge creeped me out a bit. 

I bought a wild boar sausage 

sandwich for lunch. It was yum.