London and Long Tall Sally

We made you wait long enough for the final day in London! I keep laughing every time someone thinks we’re still in London. We never post our pictures as we’re traveling, it will always be on a delay. But we do appreciate the well wishes, the trip was incredible! If you haven’t caught the first three days; here is day one, here is day two, and here is day three.

For our final day, we awoke ready to make the most of it. The plan was to walk over to an area that had a boutique our Aunt Susan wanted to shop. So we headed that way, with the intent to find a place for breakfast en route. Well turns out, a lot of stuff closes down for their bank holiday, aka our Memorial Day. We ended up trying to find somewhere that was open, and that we could sit inside. That turned out to be a taller order than expected. So then we stopped into another Paul’s and were able to sustain ourselves on more croissants while we searched.

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There ended up being a restaurant a block or two off the main street, and once inside we realized it was a hotel. They had enough to satisfy everyone, so we sat and warmed up. The weather had taken a turn back to typical London. It was slightly overcast, and windy. Once warmed with breakfast and coffee, we headed towards the boutique. Or so we thought, dun dun dun. Plot twist, we had walked past Long Tall Sally’s flagship store “on our way” to this other boutique. Since we were in the area, we might as well stop in.

Turns out, the only reason we were in the area was to visit Long Tall Sally. As we were perusing the racks (which was freaking incredible) our Aunt Susan disappeared and reappeared with envelopes that contained gift cards from Long Tall Sally. Once again we were blown away. First Asos, and now Long Tall Sally?! We couldn’t even believe it. It was the BEST to be able to sit downstairs and try on shoe after shoe after shoe. Cinderella, we get you! When the shoe fits, it’s magical.

Once we finished with the shoes, we got to come back upstairs and try on all of the other sections. I had been obsessing over the rainbow striped dress ever since it dropped, so that was top of the list. They have the nicest women working at their store. It just felt like a wonderful sisterhood of tall women. They were ready to grab different sizes at any moment for us and gave feedback on the fit of items. I ended up taking home this rainbow dress, this denim dress, and these sneakers. The fit of the denim dress is a bit looser than normal, so where I normally wear a 10/12US, I got it in an 8US.

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Caitlin tried on several pairs of shoes and ended up grabbing the same Mary Jane flats that are so perfect and versatile that I own. She also has been impatiently waiting to grab this perfect printed wrap dress. It fits her like a dream and the print is basically seasonless. She’s been loving loafers lately and couldn’t leave this classic black pair behind. Luckily for us, they had a sale running in-store to buy 2 items get 1 free. We could have spent so much more money and we know they definitely will be taking more of our money soon. I had such a hard time leaving this blue wrap maxi dress behind. The fit was incredible.

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After our incredible experience at Long Tall Sally, we took our first and only cab ride back to the Airbnb to drop off our goodies. We had been talking about the cabs the whole time, and it was fun to squeeze the four of us in, with Caitlin and I sitting in the pull-down seats facing the back. From there, we headed out again to find some tourist attractions. We took the tube to Westminster Abbey and wove our way through the throngs of other tourists. The tour buses had been passing relentlessly and we thought it might be nice to get off our feet and listen to some history and see more than we could walking. Unfortunately, we didn’t quite find the right area to be picked up at the bus stop. Instead, we moved on to find Buckingham Palace!

It’s a very impressive structure, but when no one is outside there really isn’t much to see! None of us could imagine living in there full time and having millions of people stalking about the gates hoping to catch a glimpse of you. Not an ideal scenario by me! Quickly we decided to hit up some shopping and ended up at Oxford Street. WOW, there were tons of people there! We basically ran through a couple of stores because no one was in the mood to fight the crowds. With our energy flagging, tea was in order.

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We luckily found a charming tea spot called the Tea Terrace. It’s the top floor of the House of Fraser department store on Oxford Street. It was decorated convincingly in all blues and pinks. It looks like a confection or a place of my childhood dreams. Once seated, we pored over the vast menu. Our Mom used to love Crumpets, so we had to do an order of those. Then we each did tea and scones. It was such a cute setup. As we sat and enjoyed it, we giggled listening to a small girl sitting with her mom and sister playing “imagine.” It was so sweet and entertaining to hear how vivid her imagination was!

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Completely satiated by tea, we headed back to our Airbnb to pack up. It was a whirlwind of gathering things up and making sure we were putting enough in the extra bag so no one’s luggage would be overweight on the return journey. For our final dinner, we had planned to find some fish and chips for dinner. We got all excited over a particular place, but Bank Holiday struck again and it was closed when we walked over. We settled for another spot that was decent around the corner from our place, and then we headed back to finalize packing and catch some sleep before our 4 a.m. wake up call!

All in all, it was a wonderful trip. We’ll be forever grateful and thankful for our Aunt and Mom taking us there! It went too fast, but the taste of London we got was incredible. The people here were all very kind and helpful, and we will definitely be back in the future. Hopefully, this provides a good outline or inspiration for a future trip of yours. Let us know any questions below!

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