Cheapside and St. Paul's Cathedral-Day 4

Here is another angle of Big Ben. I couldn't get enough of taking pictures of these beautiful buildings.

St. Paul's Cathedral is near Cheapside. This is a place in "Pride and Prejudice". I read that Cheap in this case meant marketplace. So apparently this is where there used to be a lot of markets.

Some very cool buildings.

The doorway was beautiful.

St. Paul's Cathedral was beautiful. As with Westminster, we couldn't take pictures inside the church, so I took a lot outside. The building just had so many beautiful angles.

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married in St. Paul's Cathedral, which is pretty neat because most of the the things the royal family does are in Westminster Abbey.

The funeral for Winston Churchill was also held in St. Paul's Cathedral.

How how I love architecture.

And England Had some beautiful architecture. It has made me want to travel to other places, especially in Europe.

Josh got this last picture of the inside. It was once again breathtaking.

We went up some very LONG staircases on the side of the cathedral. It led to the "Whispering Gallery". This was a little section cut out of the top of the Whispering Gallery dome. It showed how high up you were. It was pretty freaky. Those little dots below on the black and white floor are people.

We climbed to the outside of the Whispering Gallery and then up to the very top tower. It was so high! I thought it was really cool though.

Some of the amazing views from the outside of the St. Paul's.

The Thames River.

This was up on the very top.

Here are some pictures of the inside of the Cathedral that I got off the internet so you can see them. It was so cool.

This is the floor directly below that window we got a picture of.

I never got a picture of this side of the building.

I didn't go up this staircase, but we went up some really winding claustrophobic staircases. The whole time I kept thinking "If I get sick or fall or something it is going to be really hard for anyone to get to me." Some of the openings were way skinny and the ceilings very low. They had fire hoses that were strung through the walls, because a fire brigade could not get up to these part really easily. Honestly not for those with claustrophobia.

This is the Whispering Gallery. Called so because you can actually hear whispers from other areas of the cathedral. There were a lot of people there so we weren't hearing any actual whispers.