Monday

Monday morning we woke up refreshed and in a fun loving mood.

However, that was due to much needed sleep for the blonde one, not the fact that we finally found out that "giraffe" is not a gay bar. Before going to see Kensington Palace and Hyde park we grabbed some authentic English cuisine. Marianne had the Greek sandwich and David had the BBQ Chicken Quesadilla.








After a few hours of walking around the palace garden and hyde park, we decided to head over to St. Paul's Cathedral. Unfortunately, they only believe in having church open from 8:30 to 4:00 in England. We arrived at 4:15, so needless to say we were told to come back at a later day for a tour. All of that was still not enough to stop us from taking obscene photos of the outside "haha, take that sucka."

evidence A
evidence B

After the Cathedral we headed to our favorite mall to get some groceries for our room. We had a nice little picnic while we watched Friends and of course Top Gear. On the menu was bread, CHEESE, pepperoni, CHICKEN, and fruit (pineapple, and MANGO.)







Once we finished dinner we headed out for a walk and decided to stop for a drink at a local watering hole or pub. The drinks were very good and surprisingly cheap. The menu (food) was unfortunately "shyte." A short time later it was off to bed with the proper necessities after a night of drinking (notice the liquid).


Marianne's Nightstand



David's Nightstand

Saturday night/Sunday

We decided to play it safe Saturday night by going to "The Iron Duke," obviously not a gay bar by the name. However, the following (pictures and description of Sunday) may cause you to think otherwise........


Sunday morning we had to change to our new (and originally scheduled) hotel in Kensington. After the longest time spent in the tube (aka subway if you have not read the earlier posts', hint hint wink wink) due to every line except for two being down for maintenance we decided to go shopping. Turns out they have a Westfield mall right by our hotel.

If anyone is planning a visit to England keep in mind that malls have tons of stores, but only five main categories; designer hand bags, watches, shoes (but everyone wears old trashy shoes), pharmacies, and cosmetics. On an up side they have a wine bar in the center of the walk-ways and once you have had enough red to turn your teeth a pink tint you can then get your teeth whitened ten feet to the left. After all of those exciting stops you can then stop in the grocerystore on the way out (which is also in the mall).

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Saturdayyyy (day light savings time AGAIN)

Today we went to Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of the guards… still super boring so we left after like 10 minutes… We then left and went down to Tower Hill and saw the London Bridge and the Tower of London … along with the Crown Jewels.






Marianne made the guard laugh it was super funny. It then started downpour raining and the two of us became wet dogs and ran back to the hotel before we were completely soaked. Tonight we are probably going to go to the pub across the street The Iron Duke… Or to this bar across the street called The Giraffe… David thinks it’s a gay bar… I’m beginning to think he is right since the sign is all rainbow ☺ (ya its looking more like the Iron Duke tonight)






Of course when we come over here we are going to have to go through another day light savings thing tonight and loose an hour… o well. Tomorrow we are changing hotels again over into Kensington.

Friday-Are you sure? Nope!

Today we slept in pretty late …

Our hotel had a trouser press..

hopped on the bus back to the airport and then paid for our underground (subway) passes for the week and took the tube (another way to say subway) all the way to our hotel in Victoria. The main phrase of this day was “are you sure?” and the main response “nope” … ex. Are you sure you know where your going? Nope…. Are you sure this is the right hotel? Nope…. Hahaha. ☺ So when we got to our hotel, they couldn’t find our reservation so we headed to this cute little bar in our hotel.



Then they finally found our reservation and we dropped off our stuff and headed out. We went down to Westminister for Big Ben, Parliament and the London Eye. SOOOO much fun. How can you tell the difference between an American and an English person? Shoeeesssss



Then we went over to Trafalgar Square and went through the National Gallery and saw Rembrandts self portrait… After all the paintings started looking the same we left and went to The Prince of Wales pub for dinner. David ordered nachos with no salsa and of course they kept thinking he was saying sauce… It wasn't until he used an English accent for the word salsa that they had any clue at all what he was saying..


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WE ARE HEREEEEE!!!

So we landed into London Heathrow about 930 this evening... We are exhausted... neither David or Marianne slept more than two hours in all of this traveling. We lucked out on the seats to London. We started out not sitting together but the guy sitting next to Marianne asked if she wanted him to switch seats with David! What a nice guy!!!! (he moved from an isle seat to a middle seat). We honestly had the absolute best (non first class) seats you could ask for. We sat in the emergency exit and were able to have all the leg room in the world as well as recline pretty far back.. that will some fun movies made for such an awesome trip... So we landed and when through customs super quick... then tried to get to the hotel....

It was freezing here so we decided we would try to take a cab over to the hotel... Let me tell you first the hotel is only 3 miles from the airport... the cab driver wanted 60 pounds..... uhhhh heck no! really like 90 dollars for 3 miles????

So instead we took a bus from the airport directly to the hotel for only 8 pounds!!!! David was so funny about OH MY GOSH they are driving on the wrong side of the road. hahaha... So we are at the hotel exhausted as can be! and headed to bed.. i think its like a little after midnight here and for some reason David isnt that tired ... but Marianne for sure is and surprisingly not grumpy!!!! (i know mom, wierd huh?)

Anyways, tomorrow we are going to get our passes for the underground and decided where we want to stay for the next two days!!!!!

We are so excited and cant wait to get up and start our vacation!!!!!!!!!!

London timeee

Woooohoooo just got on the plane to London and booked a hotel with four min to spare