London - Day 2

Jet Lag is the stray dog that follows you home.

You really don't want it,

it makes you a little crazy at first

but you can't refuse it,

and it is worth it for a positive outcome.

This morning,  

Todd had a bit of work to get to.

I suggested he just focus and get as much done as he can,

before we leave to go explore.

So, he could wander around London without worrying about it, you know?

So, while Todd worked.

I figured I should get his clothes ironed for the week. (: 

The view from our room.

Around 1:15pm, we were off to explore.

Except, Todd had one more thing to take care of...

He has to manage another client, while we are out here.

By phone.

Well, our phones do not work out here...

So, we went to the T-Mobile store 

(since that's the provider we have)

to solve this issue.

We looked at the map, should only be about a 10-15min walk.

No problem!

But, remember that Jet lag thing?

Well, we kind of got our North and South mixed up for a bit and got a little bit of an extended tour.  OOPS...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Yah.

It was a little bit of a walk.

With Lots of amazing buildings.

Todd was starting to explore other options,

but was shocked by the naughty material present in there!

Then, just across the street...

There was a Hair salon (for men and women)

That also offered tattoos and piercings.

Wow, now that is FULL Service!

FINALLY, we found T-Mobile

-Yes, they will give us a UK SIMS Card for free.

EXCEPT, they can't unlock our phones (could take up to 30 days?)

Annoying.

Well, there was a mall across the street,

so we wandered through...

It was a decent sized mall,

and Yes they already have a Christmas tree up.

It  is SERIOUSLY HUGE!

It was nearing on 3pm at this point,

and we hadn't had lunch...

Poor Todd...

I am sure that this is exactly what he was thinking of for lunch.

 Come on a chocolate fountain?!

A Belgium Chocolate FOUNTAIN?!!!

Perfect lunch!

 After replenishing our sugar stores we wandered the mall.

Didn't really see anything exciting, other than the tree and the chocolate,

so we were back on the phone pursuit! 

After we journeyed from shop to shop, to shop...

finally, we found a place that could hook us up.

I had to go outside.

The guy that was helping Todd has the WORST Body ODOR ever?!

Bleck!  Really nice, but seriously don't put dress close on a stinky body.

YUCK!

One of my pet peeves, sorry.  :(

Ok, so Todd is now ready to conduct business across the globe, from the UK...

PHEW!

Then, we decided to get a little touristy

and headed down to Westminster Abby/Big Ben Area.

The sun begins to set around 4:30pm, 

so it was already starting to get dark.

 A little bit of the Hong Kong experience was to be found as well.

No, we did not partake!

We decided to give the ole' underground rail a try.

 

 

 

 Kinda like HK

 Yay!  We made it - Westminster!

 

Big Ben!

and the House of Parliment 

 Westminster Abby is across the street

 Every last detail of the architecture is beautiful.

 Lots of tours!

 The 'Special Entrance'

It is VERY tall!

 Being silly, as usual

Just behind the House of Parliament.

Victoria Park

 With a view of the River Thames

 Across the water is that London Eye,

It is the Ferris wheel looking thing.

It never stops moving and takes about 45 mins (according to Todd)

to complete the rotation.

 Fall, is beautiful here.

Even random little white pups, enjoy the change in the season,

by resting in the leaves..

(Made me miss my little pups)

 At Westminster Abby,

Crosses for fallen soldiers line the pathway...

 Breathtaking architecture.

 Postal box, for fun.

 Todd made a pit stop at the City Loo!

LOL! Made me laugh.

The London eye looked magical against the darkness.

 They had this Halloween type of scary club thing.

It looked VERY scary to me...

 OMG! We found a GIANT Penguin.

Had to take a pic for my sis.

 There was a scary, real looking Wax person.

Todd and I weren't sure who he was...

 But he was amazing!

 The trees are lit up with magical, little blue lights...

and 

They may speak English,

but it is a different language for SURE!

The title of this restaurant did NOT come out.

"The SLUG and lettuce"

Nothing entices me into a restaurant, like having the name SLUG in the title.

YUM!

We were getting very hungry at this point,

and

a bit tired...

So we hopped on a bus. 

Not really knowing where we were going...

Yah, an HOUR later we decided we should probably get off the bus,

since we could no longer see any sort of remnants of the city.

We were getting really hungry about 8pm at this point,

and saw this place.

 Sounded safe. 

 Then, we had to find our way home.

We journey by foot through the suburbs of some town in London

 We actually saw a REAL FOX digging through the trash!

I had NO idea that real foxes were that big.

I imagined them the size of my cute little Honey!

After a little bit, we found our way back to the underground and were back to our hotel pretty quick!

Yay!

We are tired, and missing the kids,

but enjoying the opportunity to spend some time together. (:

Love to everyone!