Day 20 - Mar 24, 2013 Last updated: 4/7/13 7:00pm PT
For the first stop of the day, Denise and I went to the Science Museum. We were going to go to the Natural History museum, but the entrance line was too long. The Science museum was very big and we didn’t spend much time here.
A Tucker Sno-Cat from an Antarctic expedition, a stack of cars, and the Apollo 10 command module.
We scheduled an “afternoon tea” with Carrie; thought the kid needed some culture. Boy were we all out of our cultural league. We are not fancy people. The waiters wanted to take our coats and tried to put napkins on our laps for us. And this wasn’t even the ultra-fancy “high tea”. This was just some pastries and finger sandwiches with your tea. They had about 20 different teas to choose from. We had no idea what we were doing. It felt like the scene from Blues Brothers when they went to Chez Paul. We were supposed to remove the tea bags after they soaked for a while, but my string broke because the pot’s hole was too small. I spilled tea on the table cloth right away. Denise somehow ended up with a bean sprout in her hair. We were laughing and having a good time, but I don’t think that’s considered proper behaviour at “afternoon tea”. They didn’t kick us out, but they might not let us back in.
Kensington Palace was the home of Princess Di and other royals. Part of it is still used as a royal residence (William and Kate live here now). Some of the rooms seemed like normal museum type rooms. But some of the rooms were setup in a spooky haunted house way. Macabre is a good word to describe it.
