Here We Are

Alright, after much anticipation here is my first blog from Jolly Old England! Our first two days we spent in London while MDH worked out of the Harlow office. Our first dinner was at a Mexican restaurant...I use the term "Mexican" very loosely.
Since our hotel room was about the size of our closet in Texas, the girls and I tried to keep ourselves busy out of it, which turned out not to be too difficult. The first thing we did was buy a ticket for the tube. Since our hotel was on the west side of London we took the train all the way to the east side to see the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. We got to see some demonstrations about the weapons they used way back when and Peanut thought these were very cool. Princess was more interested in the Crown Jewels.

Then we headed over to Westminster - "look kids, Big Ben, Parliament" and this cool new farris wheel that I guess is a fancy restaurant-type thing.

We also went to see Westminster Abbey which Princess was very excited about because I told her the Prince and Princess got married there. However, since I spent a ridiculous amount of money getting into the Tower I didn't have enough left over to pay for the Abbey (which, seeing as it's a church and all, I expected to be free...my mistake).

We then climbed on the lions at Trafalgar Square and ate the best fish and chips I've ever had.
Day 2 - we are now pros at riding the tube and we're headed toward the National Gallery. I love art so I'm very excited about this. However, the girls' idea of looking at art and mine differ vastly. Whereas I like to study and ponder, they're more casual observers. The best part was that Peanut got to see the original "Sunflowers" by Van Gogh which she painted and had entered into an art show last year.
We tried to get into Buckingham Palace at 4:30 but apparently they stop selling tickets for the current day at 3:45. So we walked down the street to Marks & Spencer and bought a delicious picnic lunch to eat in Hyde Park. We found a bunch of kids sliding down some sort of marble stucture and it looked like fun so the girls had a go.

It wasn't until about an hour later that I saw this...
My apologies to the residents of Canada.

Then we were on our way to Chester...but that's a whole other blog =)