Anyway, here are some pictures from my walk today. This is the Queen's House in Greenwich. I believe it also houses the Maritime Museum, but I wasn't motivated enough to go to a museum today, so I didn't explore. The nice thing, though, is that most of the museums here are free, so we definitely plan to check them out. Especially the Tate Modern.
The Queen's House borders Greenwich Park. When I took this picture, I was contemplating walking up the big, huge hill below (the building on the top is the Royal Observatory). You can't see it in this shot, but there were little kids in their school uniforms screaming and running full speed down the hill. That seems to be the thing to do when you are a little kid in Greenwich Park. I decided I was too lazy to walk up THAT huge hill and veered off to the right, where I walked up another huge hill. Greenwich Park has great running potential, if I can ever get myself to actually go running. It rivals Boston with it's hills, which are hard to walk up, so I imagine they will be hard to run up, too. 
I thought this door, at the top of the hill I did choose to walk up, looked like The Secret Garden. Everything is so historic and old here--a big change after Texas! 
Past the Secret Garden gate there were rose gardens, more historic buildings, more winding paths, gnarled, old trees. It's a beautiful park. If I had walked around the whole thing, I would have also been able to see the largest herd of enclosed deer in England...but I decided to go into Blackheath instead, where I had lunch, window shopped, and then got lost trying to come back to Greenwich the way that Jim took me yesterday. I ended up in London's version of "the hood" (which probably really wasn't very far away from where we are staying, as we are on the border of "the hood") and found myself in Lewisham, which I remembered Jim had marked "Bad! Bad! Bad!" on my map...so I turned around and eventually found familiar territory again and made it back to the flat where I am staying until tomorrow (I think). 
