Tower Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral, et al

Today Maeghan of Canada and I met up with Diane of Switzerland and Maria of Germany for some sightseeing. We had planned more than we actually got around to, but we still got to see a few decent places, then went to a pub and had a few drinks and dinner before heading back home to see a movie (The Wrestler, which was pretty good, but not great). Some pictures from the day:

The Tower of London, a big castle-looking thing on the Thames.

Tower Bridge, right next to the Tower of London - a big, impressive looking bridge across the Thames.

More Tower of London. You can see a bit of the downtown London skyline in the background.

Tower Bridge

A sign indicating Tower Bridge.

Tower Bridge

This is a view of Tower Bridge from London Bridge. London Bridge, incidentally, is totally lame - it's just a totally normal bridge. Thus no pictures of it. But you get a good view of Tower Bridge from it, as you can see. The big ship in the front is a floating British naval museum.

A non-zoomed in view of Tower Bridge from London Bridge.

St. Paul's Cathedral, which is super-impressive - makes DC's National Cathedral look pathetic. Unfortunately, the inside was closed, which I'm told is really cool-looking. Some other time perhaps.

Another view of St. Paul's Cathedral from a different side - it didn't all fit in the camera, so you're not getting the full scope of it.

A statute in front of St. Paul's Cathedral

Diane and Maria in front of the statue in front of St. Paul's Cathedral

This is later in the evening. We walked down to Trafalgar Square and came upon this giant protest for Gaza, which was pretty cool. Police were everywhere.

More Gaza protesting

We were going to try to squeeze in Westminster stuff, but it was pretty late by the time we got to Trafalgar and we were getting pretty cold, so that will have to wait for another day.