excuse me while I check my app

I am going to continue my travel saga but first I want to share information about two apps I heard about recently. Now, I admit there are some useful apps out there.  I appreciate school closing alerts and storm warnings but,,,earlier today a weatherperson said that we could use her station's weather app to check if it's raining before we go outside tomorrow morning. Really?  Couldn't we just open a window or look out the door. Do we really need an app to tell if it's raining? And how about this? While riding on the bus around the English countryside last week, our tour guide proudly announced that her company now had an app that we could download to our phones that would tell us where we are at that very moment in real time. Really? I was right there, sitting on the bus.  I didn't really need an app to tell me that.
Day two was spent touring around London. By the way, London was founded by the Romans in 46AD. In the morning we visited Buckingham Palace and then Kensington Palace.

I'm pretty sure that this is a picture of Kensington, the front side where tourists visit. We saw a fairly casual changing of the guard there, also floral trubutes to Diana. William, Kate and the children live at Kensington, as well as William's brother and a few other royals. A friend expressed concern tha the noise of tourists roaming all around the front rooms of the palace would bother the family, but she was assured that, in a house with 800 rooms, the noise really didn't carry to the back regions of the palace where the family live. 

During our lunch break some of our group visited Harrods, the famous old department store. Last year I had tea there which was very nice. The story is told that once, some years ago, because Harrods claims to have everything you need, a gemtleman went into the tea room and ordered an elephant sandwich. The flustered waitress coundulted with the maitre de who solumnly informed the man that "Unfortunately, we are out of elephant today."