Let's start with some amusing oddities.
This was the flushing mechanism on the top of our toilet tank in our room. As I mentioned before, I don't remember many European toilets that didn't have some kind of double-flushing option. The question was, which button do you push for which job?
When we had dinner at Grumbles, Trout was facing the business end of the restaurant. Although we could see parts of the main kitchen slightly below us, they still used this dumb waiter to bring the food up, probably due to an even lower level and some really steep steps.
Yes, that is a rope pull.
We found these kinds of friendly warnings all over London.
There aren't so many of these phone booths anymore, but there were these just down the street from our hotel. Of course we had to pose in them.
The time of year we were there (mid-October) the Changing of the Guard ceremony wasn't done every day. Fortunately, we were there for one of the days it was done. I managed to get Trout up and moving in time to walk to Buckingham Palace for it.
We set ouselves up on the Queen Victoria monument as recommended by Rick Steves and watched the show. I ran back and forth around the monument getting too many pictures. For more information on the ceremony, be sure to go to the link.
These are some guards heading toward the Palace from one direction. If I remember correctly, this is the regiment and band of the guards who are leaving their posts. They are coming to accompany them back home.
Here they are rounding the circle of the monument with the crowds looking on.
And inside the gates they are now.
As you might imagine, crowd control was an issue. There were bobbies on horses and on foot telling people what to do.
The Queen was at the palace that day. This is her flag flying. If she hadn't been, it would've been the British flag. 
Trout insisted that I get a shot of this tough guy with the pidgeon on his head.
These guards are coming from a different direction. These are the fresh guards who will going to their posts accompanied by their regimental band.
The guards we saw actually take up positions were dressed like the ones in the dark blue uniforms.
The horse guards at the end of this group rode in, circled around and left.
And more marching happened behind the fence.
These are the tired guards finally heading home. By the time this happened, I was about ready to join them. The whole ceremony is supposed to take about 45 minutes, but according to the time my pictures have, it lasted almost twice that long. I wouldn't recommend this for very small children or impatient adults, like me. I'd had enough about 1/2 way through.
Here you can get another idea of how crowded it was. That's the Queen's flag above the palace.
Now the bands start to leave. 
As soon as everyone got out of the way, the traffic started again -- just like everywhere else in Europe.
And we started walking toward lunch and our next destination. That small person in front of the gate is me.
On the way we passed this guard at his station at the entrance to St. James Palace off the Mall.
We had lunch at a decent Italian restaurant and went to see the Jersey Boys. One of my goals was to see a play in London and I wanted it to be a musical. We had lots to choose from, and I never would've chosen one so American, but many locals we talked to raved about this production. We went to the senior afternoon performance (1/2 price). We didn't get to see the "star" but all the other actors were the same and the understudy was fabulous. Be sure to listen to some of the music at the website.
The show was at the Prince Edward Theater in the famous West End of London. We had wonderful tickets in a great location close to the stage.
These two events were the major things we did on Tuesday, October 20th. The next post will cover Monday and Wednesday in London.
