Hampton Court - Day 4

After a nice breakfast together, we took the tube to Waterloo station and a train to Hampton Court. Originally, we had thought of taking a ferry down the Thames, but it takes a long time (3 hrs!) and we didn't have that much time. Good thing because Hampton Court had tons to do.

Hampton Court is the palace where William the III and Henry VIII lived. It is about 30 minutes outside of London. It's interesting to see because you go on separate tours of the different apartments and they all look so different. It's almost like a few different castles all put into one. Andrew was not a huge fan of the tours and was very apt to scream, so we did most of the tours while he napped and toured the gardens while he was awake.

The front of the palace:



Andrew was SO excited when he saw the fountain:



Among the yew trees:



Back of palace:



Beautiful gardens - we really loved them:



The stroller did not stroll so well on all the pebbles, so you do what you have to ...



Typical sign of distress at not wanting to be in stroller:



There was a maze in the garden (they are hundreds of years old). It was pretty difficult. We found the center of the maze and got a sticker, but we got lost trying to get out, so we took a shortcut from the center. We were just so tired of walking ...



We took the train to Wimbeldon and then took the tube back from there. After some relaxing, we did another Andrew-dinner-dance at yet another Chinese restaurant, another cab home, more talking in the Funai's hotel room, and blessed sleep.