London Calling - A Train, A Bus, A Boat, and An Eye

Call us crazy, but we took our family to England for a couple weeks. The first two nights we stayed in London and May and I went to see Hairspray in a beautiful theater not far from our hotel. The show was fabulous and May and I had a blast! The auditorium was beautifully done in cremes and golds with rose and white marble and there were 4 statues around the side boxes representing Comedy, Tragedy, Poetry, and Music. The next two nights we stayed in a pretty boutique hotel outside of London (think Jane Austen). While there Bill's moms family met us for dinner. It was so nice to see everyone and how grown up the kids are now. The next day we took the train (we're so City!) into London and wore ourselves out...



Here are our lovely tour guides, Jackie, Jean, and Roger (Jean & Roger from the now infamous Queen Victoria debacle). I doubt we missed even one Tourist Locale, which was great for May and Baden - having never been to London.

May and Baden's first priority once we met up with everyone was to ride a double decker bus with no top on it. They had been talking about this for weeks and were absolutely thrilled to death when we got on -







Apparently they were "knockered." Don't know if I'm spelling that right, but it means they were totally spent. :-)

We saw lots of fun sites -







And even caught a glimpse of the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace.



(Ooops, randomly placed photo of Cousins Jenny & Jackie. I really need to figure this blogging thing out!)





The London Eye...


May loves Big Ben so we took this picture of them together when we were about 135 meters in the air. It takes about 30 minutes to get around and the wheel doesn't stop to let you on and off - you just kind of jump! The capsules we rode in were pretty neat and the views were spectacular.





After the Eye we took a boat down the Thames.





The dreaded Tower! I could have spent hours here, but I think I'm the only one, so I'll have to do that next time.



A super huge Thanx to Granny and Grandpa for keeping Kitty entertained at the hotel while the rest of us played Tourist!