A Day at Kew Gardens

Honeymoon Day 3 - London Day 3 (Final Day)

Today we braved the Tube to travel to the largest botanical gardens in the world, Kew Gardens.  Riding the subway is kind of like riding a bike, it's a bit scary at first, but once you get on the first train it all comes back to you.  Two stations line changes and only about 5 minutes of being completely lost on one of the platforms later, we arrived at the Kew Gardens stop.  As we departed the Tube we found ourselves in the most adorable little town.  We wandered down two blocks among adorable old houses and crazy expensive cars (Land Rovers, Aston Martins, Audis, etc) and found ourselves at the gates to Kew Gardens.  

Needless to say, the next 6 hours were spent wandering, taking pictures and Trent oohing and aahing over the amazing plants.  And I have to say that even for this non-crazy plant person, that was place was truly amazing.  It was over 300 acres of gardens, trees, and fountains.  I can't really describe it very well, but trust me, we have enough pictures to show everyone to give you an idea.  :)

After a long day at the gardens, we for some reason decided to get a little more use out of tube pass for the day and headed to see Saint Paul's up close (we had seen it yesterday on our bus tour, but just in passing).  What we did not factor into our decision was that it was rush hour on the tube.  I didn't know you could stuff that many people on a subway train before, but holy cow do the British know how to squeeze into tiny places.  People were literally hanging out of the train doors we they closed.  Once we arrived at the Church, we were completely amazed at the size and beauty of it.  Unfortunately we were not able to go inside due to a "celebrity organ concert" (whatever that is) but we were able to walk around and get some good pictures.

It was a very long, tiring day, so we retired early to our room.  We're off to Saint Pancras station first thing tomorrow morning to catch the Chunnel to Paris.  It's hard to believe our time in London is over, but I know I am so excited to get to Paris.  

Until tomorrow...Cheerio Pip Pip!!  (for you Debbie!)

Kristen & Trent