Eight Days in London Town

                                                  Day 1

July 15th 2013... we arrive in London on the "Tube" from Heathrow- a long ride.  Logan  suggested we come up for air mid way so we dragged our bags up from the Picadilly Line and surfaced in Leister Square. 

Following an afternoon nap in our hotel room in New Cross (sort of ghetto outside London) we met up with Glen Milburn (the reason we are here) for a quick trip into London just to check things out.

                                              Day 2

 Day 2 began at about noon as we were still on east coast time.   We took our train from New Cross into London where we met Glen on his lunch break, bought a brunch picnic from Pret a Manger and found a shady spot along the Thames to enjoy.  

 On to the tourist stops:
                                    The Tower of London

Guarding the Crown Jewels

                                                               
                                                                        Tower Bridge

 We had hoped to get in to the Globe to see Macbeth but were not patient enough to wait in line 2 hours for stand-by tickets so we decided on Spamalot (see below)

 Saint Paul's Cathedral

 The Monument

Spamalot- Hilarious!!

DAY 3

Hitting the streets of London ...

I will say here that we never really came off east coast time and our routine became... sleep in late- take the tube into the city, start with lunch and stay out until around mid-night.  Here we are at our worst meal of the trip- bad food, a grouchy waitress, water with no ice but an awesome location on Leister square.

Also in Leister Square  The Book of Mormon Musical- no we didn't have tickets nor do we want tickets but we couldn't have them even if we had wanted them as they are sold out through 2014.

Big Ben and Westminster Abby.

                                       A little family of swans in St. James Park.  I will spare you all the bird pictures  but it was one of my favorite stops and I saw a lot of "life"birds.

On to Buckingham Palace...

                                                    Andrew are you spying on the Queen?

                                                                    Model Men

                                                                          Marble Arch

                     Back to our old hotel where we stayed with the MDI Band.  "The Cumberland"





                                                          Bike trip through Hyde Park

Biking was one of the favorite events of our trip and should have served as a warning of what was to come when I had a car- as I had a difficult time remembering which side of the path to ride on...

                                                                A very strange restaurant.



                                                                       DAY 4

The British Museum

                                                      Mummy Cats

                                                    What is this strange beast?

The Natural History Museum

                                                                             Harrods

We rode up and down the Egyptian escalator and visited the $1200 kittens on the pet floor. 

Hamley's Toy Store...    visit with the Lego Queen

WICKED

                  

This Show was WICKED GOOD !!!

Day's 5 & 6

JULY 20, 2013   

THE ENGLISH WEDDING

GLEN & LIZ   

MILBURN

             Glen's younger brother's Archie and Jacob

                           Logan sandwiched between the Australian's   Kyall and Josh

                                                   Signing the guest book a message for Glen



On to the Temple

Logan's friend from the MTC Heidi Wiseman- she had a bad day getting to the wedding but was able to meet us at the temple.

                                               
                                    Day 7

Leeds Castle

The Black Swan and the Peacock

We all struggled getting in and getting out of this maze

An afternoon in Dover England

Hiking on the White Cliffs of Dover

                                                                   DAY 8
                        Windsor Castle and Hampton Court

Another Maze...  but much easier

                            I look happy here in this little car but only because my time in it is about to be over!
I wasn't a very good English driver...  I traumatized my passengers, annoyed several Englishmen (they do use American swear words) and almost gave myself a nervous breakdown- but we all survived and there wasn't a scratch on the car when I returned it!

Here's to our Travellodge's ....     New Cross         Crawley         Stanstead           Feltham

and that's a wrap on our 8 amazing days in London Town 2013!