Elaine and Ryan's Adventures in England

Saturday, September 16, 2006

"I won't expect a postcard from Trafalgar Square"

Gotta love the Caedmon's Call. All day while we were in London it was running through my head. About how London is such a nice town, and how we could see a Broadway show, and there's no crime. Speaking of Broadway shows...oh, wait, I'll save that diddy for a little later...

In case you haven't caught on yet, we spent the day in London. Well, we wanted to spend the day, but I got up this morning and started to do some laundry, and it didn't finish as soon as we thought it would - sorry, that's a whole other story!! We had been to London once before, but it was almost as soon as we arrived, and right when I was in the most painful parts of my ear infection, so I didn't have any fun. Today was much more exciting. I am going to post some pics from both excursions. The ones that include Buckingham Palace were from the first trip, most of the rest are from today. If you are wondering which is which, I am wearing my mu-mu ear infection kerchief in the ones from day one.

Ok, so let's back the London train up just a minute. Let me show you the pics from Buckingham palace first. They are fun.



I thought maybe the Queen would come out and invite me in for tea, but alas, she did not. It was a sad sad day for her!!

We also saw Big Ben that day, although not so much up close.


Ok, so after that I felt sick and we needed to leave the overcrowded, loud, annoying, dirty, rude city life and head back to our own little universe.

Today was a much better day. We were even almost proficient in getting into the city. It is so much easier when you know what is coming around the next turn. And there was so much stuff that we didn't see the first time, that we noticed or got to see the second time. I guess it can only get better. When we left Romford we knew what buses we needed to take, and even when to switch. We had gotten some McDonald's coupons in the mail, so we decided to eat lunch out. Not very healthy, I know, but we're on a budget!! We got off the 86 bus in Ilford, and walked across the street to a McD's for a bite. After we had ordered Ryan noticed that there were no debit machines anywhere. The guy looked at us kinda funny when we asked if they take debit. Like every idiot was supposed to know it was cash only? Anyway, we left there and hopped on the 25 bus that would take us into London, and hopped off just past Stratford when we saw another McD's on the road. We had a quick bite (and realized, stupidly enough, that their drive thru is on the opposite side of the building - of course it is! They drive on the opposite side...Oh, Elaine!) and then we hopped back on the 25 for the long drive into London. The bus was absolutely PACKED!!! Standing room only. Fun stuff.

Once we got into London we walked a short way to Trafalgar Square. We brought our tripod with the intention of getting a really awesome panaramic shot of the square, but unfortunetly (for more reasons than one) the square was shut down because there was a Scissors Sisters concert tonight. I've never even heard of them, but the set up was quite elaborate. Anyway, we went into the National Art Gallery and had a peek around. Oh, I just remembered, I have some pics from before. Let's put pictures with my words so you all have something to visualize!! Pictures on the blog are great!!

Ok, apparently I can't add another picture. I'm going to publish this then do more...

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