More Pictures From Day 2...

 Our vantage point in the front seats on the top layer of the double decker bus. Now, doesn't it look like we are going to run over somebody or at least jump a curb or two??

The London Eye. This bad boy doesn't even stop. When the next open car comes and you're next in line, you better hustle fast to get on. The London Eye waits for no man!!!!  

                            The back side of the Parliament building as seen from the bridge.

                                                                  Looking up at Big Ben.
And of course you know that "Ben" is the bell and the tower is officially known as the Elizabeth Tower. And that it is the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world and that it was completed in 1858 and ....
and.... and.... and... (well, you can do the research yourself if you want to  know anything else)

  This walk was right outside Buckingham Palace. We didn't go down the path but I am just sure there     were tons of roses to memorialize England's Rose, Princess Diana.

 

 Let's play I Spy.

I spy with my little eye some Canada geese. 

I spy with my little eye several sea gulls.

I spy with my little eye an American coot or two.

I spy with my little eye a graylag goose.

I spy with my little eye a black chicken-like bird with a small red beak.
(sorry, try as I might, I couldn't find out what kind of bird that was, even with all my mad research skills)

                Graylag goose (native to Europe but apparently we have some in the states, too)
(when scientists named this bird, they meant to say say "gray leg" but somebody didn't transcribe it right or something got lost in translation)   (I think that was how it went down, anyway)
He looks like a right friendly old chap, wouldn't you say?? (even to my slightly paranoid bird-fearing self)