Our meetings concluded Wednesday at noon at the wonderful Pennyhill Park Resort, then it was another train ride with some of the other folks at the meeting to downtown London - this time from another station close by - and a straight shot with no transfers!

First stop was the London Eye - a huge ferris wheel type attraction - one that towers above London right along the River Thames.  The glass capsules can hold about 30 people each.  We got in line and were quickly raised above the masses to view a fantastic vista.  The entire city of London streatched before us - we could see rain showers moving in, we could see the people like ants below us.  We could see all of the major sites.  I could make out Admiral Nelson rising from Trafalgar Square, St. Pauls, Tower Bridge - everything.

Impressive.

From their, we walked.

Along the windy streets to Piccadelly Circus, to Convent Gardens, to Leister Square.  Past the lines waiting for tickets to the newest movies.  Throught the business district.  Past Lincoln Inn (the law district), and to St. Paul’s Cathedral.  We made it in just in time to catch the last half of the Benediction.  The wonderful coral music wafted through the church.  The site was fantastic.

Then out again and through the rain and walked to the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge again.  Someone commented that they hated the Tower Bridge - they are Argentinian by birth and the Tower Bridge is painted in their colors - because they were the last person that England defeated in war before the bridge was painted (the Faulklands War).

A bus back to the train station and then riding home…dead tired…