One of the big features of Kew Gardens are the amazing green houses, which they call "glass houses". Each glass house has a different plant theme. There is a desert house with cactus, a tropical house, and a temperate house. They are all huge, I mean really huge. My favorite green house was the tropical house because it had a great rounded shape. Inside it was very hot and steamy and the plants have been in there for a long time. Some of the jungle plants have...

After the show we went to China Town for dinner. We went to the Golden Dragon restaurant. We were served Chinese food. We sat on the second floor. The first course was crispy duck. I was surprised when the server used a fork and spoon to pull apart the food for us. It was a new experience to have somebody pull a part your food for you. After we had our fill of crispy duck, the waitress brought us crispy shredded beef, ginger chicken, calamari, fried rice, and a p...

Last night we went out to see a musical in the theater district. It was Saturday night so the trains and streets were packed with all kinds of "interesting" people. The show we saw was called "Let It Be". It was basically a 2.5 hour concert that covered the music of the Beattles from the start to finish. The band was excellent and looked and sounded very real. The sets and clothes changed with each group of songs to what the Beattles were wearing during each peri...

Today we visited the Churchill War Cabinet rooms. We were given this electronically scripted guide that looked like a house phone. We used it to guide us around the museum. There were little numbers on important exhibits telling us what numbers to type in to the keypad. As we walked around the museum we saw the headquarters for their meetings while the bombing of Britton was going on. We also saw the room where they would sleep, and many other cool functional roo...

Today we rode the London "tube" or subway around the city. The train cars are crowded with people sitting or packed together standing. If you stand, you must hold on to the handles because the train goes very fast. It's cool to see people from all over the world on the trains speaking different languages. The stations are crazy. You go up and down these really steep escalators and people are shoving and running in every direction trying to get to their train. A b...