Winston Churchill War Rooms and the Big Ben

The kids had fun taking pictures of everything this morning -- streets, pigeons, telephone booths, buildings, dogs....  :)  We then got a quick sandwich and the kids worked in their Travel Guides.

About noon, we reached the Winston Churchill War Rooms.  During World War II, Nazi bombs rained down on London and invasion seemed imminent.  The British government, lead by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, converted basements filled with archives and storage to its secret underground headquarters for directing the war effort.  It is here that Churchill lived, worked and made his famous radio speeches that inspired the Brits to carry on.

I've long wanted to go to these Churchill War Rooms, and since Haughton is a history buff, I figured he would love it too.  We watched a few You Tube videos about Churchill beforehand, which got Ridgely excited too.  I figured it would take about 90 minutes.  I never dreamed the kids would want to stay for over 4 hours!  We were given great audio tours.  The museum has a kids version, which asks them additional questions about each of the 25 or so rooms.  The kids listened to each audio tour, spent time trying to answer the questions and then wanted to photograph everything too.  Fantastic time was had by all. 

After the War Rooms we strolled over to Big Ben, walked around, went out to dinner at a fabulous place near our apartment and came home.  We cuddled on the couch this evening to watch a DVD Ridgely picked out at the War Rooms gift shop called Battle of Britain.  Overall, it was a fabulous day!