London Travel

We made it to the UK!!! Our flight into London was surprisingly smooth! Blake fell asleep on the plane before we even took off. The only issue we did have was that there was a mechanical issue with the plane so we sat at the terminal/on the plane for over an hour before we actually took off.......and then Blake woke up about an hour after we were in the air. Everyone was thoroughly entertained though because we each had our own tv with a plethora of different movies/games/cd's to choose from.......it was great! The actual flight was 9 hours and because the kids were so good and we had plenty of entertainment it definitely didn't seem like that long of a flight. Blake did eventually go back to sleep and the girls slept for about 4 hours or so as well.

We took a big hotel by bus van to our hotel. It was too early to check in so we dropped off our luggage and took off for a walk. We weren't really within walking distance from the cool sights downtown so we just walked to Abbey Road, peeked at Abbey Road Studios where the Beatles recorded and then looked for a place to eat. We stopped at a pizza place. Blake had a huge meltdown because he was so tired. So we left and walked back to the hotel, checked in, and slept for 7 hours! By the time we woke up it was already 7 or 8pm. Derek took the kids to see if they could go swimming but that was a no go as the hotel was more of a resort and for upper class people (we were definitely out of our element there!) and didn't allow kids in the pool after 6pm. So, they walked to the nearest grocery store and got some ice cream......I stayed back and slept some more! :) After we had our ice cream we went back to the grocery store for a sandwich, then watched a movie on our laptop and went back to sleep around midnight. It's taking some time for us to get use to the 6 hour time change!

watching Cars