AWESOME!! Swan Heaven, indeed :D

Great pictures! They are really doing the construction, I counted 9 cranes in one picture.

Ooh, scary black swans with blood-dipped beaks! :D

Ambitious indeed. What's come over you two?


btw, thanks ever so for the photos, and for taking the time out from your uncommonly unlikeyou busy travel schedule to post photos and tell tales. Sharing is right cool of you. Continue fun at your discretion.

COOL!! Thanks for the pictures! (Daffodils!!)

I love black swans, so majestic. Enjoy the rest of your trip!

Thank you for the updates and photos. It's as close as I'm going to get for quite a while.

I think we overdid it yesterday. We didn't even remember to mention we also hit the National Portrait Gallery as well. My body was NOT happy this morning.

We slept in a tiny bit, got a healthy (full) English Brekkies (eggs, sausage, bacon, toast, tomatoes and beans with French Press Coffee and juice) then went to check out what was available at the TKTS booth. Nothing tickled our fancy there so we decided to visit the Tates. No, not Larry and Louise sillies.....the Galleries!

The "old" tate is a giant museum space filled with mostly pre-Modern art (although there was quite a bit of comtemporary art exhibited). I got to see TONS of Pre-Raphaelite art that I've wanted to see for over 20 years. It was amazing!!!! We spent money in the bookstore, loaded up on fuzzy water and advil and headed over to the Tate Modern.

They have a Tate to Tate boat that travels on the Thames between the 2 Tates, making a stop at the London Eye on the way. It was a very nice but short respite from our art-looking....plus, we got to sit down! My body thanked me.

That Tate Modern is a new facility for strictly Modern and Contemporary art. It resides in a converted power plant up-river from the old Tate. The space is absolutely incredible!!!! We made it through the permanent exhibition, which is huge and amazing. I could've spend a couple of days in that Tate Modern alone.

We were thinking about heading over to the British Museum to take advantage of their evening hours, but our bodies rebelled. Se, we headed home and stopped at Jenny Lo's Tea House on the way home for some Sicuhan Aubergine, Singapor Noodles, pork dumplings and gunpowder/mint tea. That revived us enough to make it back to the hotel where we promptly turned on the TV and stared into space for a while.

I'm glad we didn't end up with theater tickets tonight. I think we need to have a few minutes of down time, for tomorrow is bound to be another big adventure.

No pics to post tonight. I didn't really take too many. I promise to be more photo-oriented tomorrow.

Thanks so much for the "live" updates. :) It makes it almost like we're there with you.

Well some recovery time means I get to post some more pics - views from another camera can be found here