London, Day 1 of 4

So as promised, the details of our London trip. We left Dallas on Saturday morning and landed in London about 8 am Sunday morning. It was a long flight but worth it. We took an express train from Gatwick into London to catch the tube. We then discovered that the quickest route to our hotel was under construction for the weekend so we had to take several different trains to finally get there (not an easy feat with luggage!). We finally got to our hotel only to find our room wasn't ready. So we checked our bags with the bellman and decided what to do next. We chose to ride one of the tour buses around London to see the major sights and try to stay awake! We walked 5 minutes down to Speakers Square to catch the bus only to find a giant pro-Saddam rally taking place. Little scary to walk through but we quickly went around and tried not to draw attention to ourselves. We hopped on top of the bus (it was a double decker) and enjoyed our tour. We realized about half way through it that we were starving so we hopped off and found a McDonalds (we were too tired to do any heavy looking for food) and ate. We then hopped back on the bus, back to Speakers Square, through the Saddam rally and walked back to our hotel. We got our room took a short nap and went to dinner (in the hotel). We finally reached our exhaustion point about 10 and went to bed. We had to be up early the next morning for our tour of Stonehenge, Bath and Windsor castle. Now you know about day 1!


This is what one looks like after a long flight, trying to stay awake!

Us and Big Ben (Isn't Joel good at the self portraits!)