London Bridges

Hey everybody! Jenny and I have safely arrived to the Middle East, but on our way we spent a day in London. This picture is of the London Tower Bridge is over the Thames River, which is filthy. Our morning started out arriving at the Heathrow Airport at around 7:30 am London time (which is 2:30am Dayton time), we dropped off our stuff at our hotel and caught a bus to the Underground (subway in london, also called the Tube) we purchase day passes and hopped on to head toward the city. When we walked off the terminal we were staring right at "big ben" and we headed to Westminster Abbey Cathedral which is ridiculously expensive, along with everything else in London, but worth every pound. It was a great day with beautiful weather, Jenny and I grabbed some fish and chips for lunch at a little whole in the wall place recommended to us by a local, and then we layed down in a park in the middle of the city and fell asleep for about an hour. Everybody in London hangs out in parks, sitting on the grass talking, eating their lunch, reading their paper, or just catching a quick nap, it was great. After we caught our second wind we walked down to the London Tower, also over priced, and bought tickets for the tour, it was really cool. I think that I would have enjoyed it more as a little boy, because it was a castle and I could of pretended I was partaking in medievel battles. Jenny loved the Jewel house, which is actually in a vault and houses many of the scepters and crowns and dinner ware of kings and queens of 'ole. After the tour we hopped on the Underground again and made sure to "mind the gap" as we got off at our next stop which was near Covanent Gardens, which was suggested to us by a very nice chap that we met as a good place to find some good tea (lauren), after Jenny was done perusing what the Brit's had to offer as far as tea goes, and I was done drinking all of the free samples, we foud a beautiful italian restaurant with outdoor seating. We sat and enjoyed a gorgeous night of great food, and fun atmosphere. On our way back to our Hotel we stopped at Buckingham Palace, we walked down Constitution Hall rd and sat around the fountain in front of the Palace for a while just to make sure that the queen didn't want us to come in for a spot of tea, but apparently she was to busy, typical. We rode the Underground back to the Heathrow Airport and then hopped on some public bussing to get to the street our hotel was on. We were ready to hit the hay and get some rest before we had to fly to our final destination. More to come soon...