March 22, 2016, London

Good Evening from London
This is Amy.
We've had another wonderful, amazing day in England.  Although, we've had fitful nights of half awake/sleep we managed to stay awake all day for our tour with Steve the cabbie.  He took us to as many sites as he could navigate in the heavy traffic of narrow streets.   We went to Abbey Road Studios, where we signed the white-washed wall in front with "Love you Paul!" 6o's Beatles messages, crossed Abbey Road in the crosswalk like on the Abbey Road Beatles album and bought souvenirs in the shop.  On the way to the next amazing place, Steve drove us by Paul McCartney's current house marked with a street side wooden gate and stopped in front to tell us a story about how he has seen Paul pull into the gated drive, unload his car of groceries and turn around and wave before he goes into his house! We all said "WOW!"  Steve said he likes to hear wows!
Then we went to the Globe Theatre on the Thames.  It was a beautiful sunny day and there were many people all over outside on the river banks enjoying the sunshine.  There were also many students touring the Globe Theatre inside, which made it a crowded place to shop for the Shakepeare gifts, but we managed ok.  I attracted a lot of attention with the 5th grade kids when I put on a large "Rat from the Plague" puppet and attacked Nancy's shoulder with it.  Soon they were all grabbing the rat puppets and squealing !
We also went down to the Camdin Marketplace and wandered around.  It used to be the old (200-400 years ago) horse stalls.  The brick stalls and tunnels are still there, just the market stands are in their place.  We drove by Buckingham Palace, the Royal Courts of Justice (Nancy got some good pictures of that, but the public cannot go inside). Then we told our driver that we like arts and museums.  So he took us into the free, Sir Wallace Collection which is a fantastic museum in his mansion home.  We walked through rooms of weapons, armour, paintings and furnishings.  It was more than an hour before we left, again with gifts from the shop.  (Steve is really helping his local economy!). Don't miss the video of Tina in the suit of armour.
We did a ton more of touristing, but I'm getting really sleepy now, and Tina is sleeping too.  So, maybe I'll get some sleep!  Signing off for now from the Imperial Hotel in London.
Xoxoxoxoxoxox to my family and Willy.