Day 13 - The End is Near!

July 12 - Day 13: Today was our day to tour Pax Lodge after breakfast and we also enjoyed the flag ceremony. We were bummed that we didn't know the song, but it was a nice ceremony, short and sweet.

The tour of Pax Lodge was interesting. Lots of Guiding history there. Our tour guide was from the Czech Republic, I beleive. Our girls interest was again peaked by the idea that they could come back and work at one of the World Centers for a summer. I hope many of them take the opportunity!

First stop after our Underground connections is St Pauls Cathedral. Simply breathtaking. Many of us decided to climb the millions of stairs up to the Whispering Tower and Observation decks. Lots of steps, but great views!

Next stop was the Globe Theater. The actual Globe burned down twice, so this is a reproduction, but very interesting to all.

Our last stop of the day was the Tower of London. A few of us enjoyed the Bloody Tower (which turns out to be not so bloody) and others waited in line to see the Crown Jewels. We were hoping to get some pics with us looking like we were wearing the crowns, but alas, we viewed them from a people mover.

I have to keep reminding myself of the years of the history we are seeing...

 and we thought we had history in Philadelphia!

We decide to head back to the Hampstead area to try one of the local restaurants near Pax Lodge. Turns out we decided to travel home during rush hour. Ugh. The train rolls to a stop and I look acorss the crowded platform and into the more crowded train cars and say "Make it happen, ladies" and of course, now that we are all metro experts... we do! Can't see where everyone is, but no one is left on the platform, so we are all good!

The Giraffe for dinner was terrific. And just a short walk home!