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One of our favorite cities (okay mostly Kevin's favorite) in the world is London. Kevin has been there 4 times in the last 9 years, while I've been there 3 times in the last 8 years...the last 2 times we did together. I say that to say this time we decided to do a few of our favorites, as well as a few of the off the beaten path type places. 


We spent 3 days in London on this trip, and hit the up Big Ben, London eye and Westminster Abbey first! We also made sure to pick up some show tickets as we are big musical fans. We picked Lion King, because not only do we love that show but it was our very first musical to watch together about 6 years ago. We also hit up one of our favorite markets to people watch and shop, Covent Gardens. 


The next day we spent a good chunk of the day doing the Harry Potter studio tour. This was pretty amazing. Let me back up, earlier this year Kevin and I went to Hobbiton in New Zealand (along with Weta Cave, which is a special effects/props tour of the company that did a lot of the work in LOTR) so we have always loved these types of tours. It was a nice little jaunt away from the rest of London we've been to, but we loved seeing the real sets, costumes and props in the Harry Potter movies! We ended the day with Tower Bridge and Tower of London, and of course some fish and chips! 



On our final day we started with a few of our other favorites: British Library (seeing my favorite author's original work, Jane Austen), picked up some more theater tickets for the evening, and went to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guards. We went back to do a little more shopping and people watching at Covent Gardens, had some dinner and ended our trip with a new musical, Matilda! 


We're now on the train to Paris! (My favorite city in the world!)



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