Travel Day!

June 22th
(2:00pm London Time)

We are crossing the English Chanel, playing SPOONS! It’s cold and windy outside but we’re happily sitting in the lounge where’s it’s warm and cozy ☺

We’re sad to be leaving London; we had such an amazing time! The day after my last post we went to Hyde Park and visited Kensington Palace.

On our way home we decided to get off the Tube at Leicester square to see if we could find some discounted tickets for a show. Of course it was pouring rain but we were determined to get the lowest price possible. So we put newspaper over our heads and sprinted from discount ticket booth to discount ticket booth, wheeling and dealing until we settled on fairly cheap (back-row) tickets to Mouse Trap, the longest running in

play in the world. Having finally bought the tickets we looked down at our watches, it was six thirty and the play started at seven thirty. Our hair was matted with rain and we looked like we had just spent the whole day in the park (because we had). At this moment I remembered our family motto when it comes to plays: if you’re not running it’s not a play. So we ran all the way back to the Tube, and from the Tube to our Dorm.

We got dressed in 8.5 minutes and bought a pizza out of the vending machine downstairs (which was actually pretty cool, it makes it in the machine right there in front of you!). We then ran back to the Tube, and from the Tube to the play, arriving with just enough time to get little glasses of wine and compose ourselves enough to pretend that weweren’t obnoxious Americans but rather civilized, wine-drinking British Folk.

Yesterday we decided to fully embrace our tourist status. We went to the National Gallery (Van Gough, Monet, Botticelli, Michelangelo and Da Vinci), the National History Museum (Rocks, Dinos, Jewels and Animals), Buckingham Palace (we may or may not have seen the Queen, it’s up for debate), Covent Gardens (shopping and tea) and St. Martin’s Cathedral (brass rubbings!!!).