Upwards to the Stone and Golden Galleries...

Here we are, the birthday crowd! First we toured the inside and then made our way up several flights of stairs to the 'Whispering Gallery'. This is inside the dome and supposedly you can whisper across/or something like that and someone can hear you. I don't think it works with lots of noisy people.

Then you follow some more flights of stairs and you find the 'Stone Gallery'. This is where we waited in a line to go up some more stairs to the tippy-top 'Golden Gallery'.




This is the view from the Stone Gallery and you can't see it too well, but our dorm is around-ish that larger brown building in the middle of the photo.












This is a view from the Golden Gallery, the tippy-top, of the River Thames and Tower Bridge in the distance.













The London skyline from the Golden Gallery, and oh, me! I was admittedly getting cold around this time. The Golden Gallery was small and would only admit, maybe, 10ish people. After we were done there we went down to Blackfriar's Bridge over the Thames and watched the Lord Mayor's firework show. I thought it was good, but many were disappointed. The eye of the beholder, eh?