Trip - Day 1

To document the trip Johnny and I just took (and because I use this blog as a journal of sorts), I'm going to recap the whole thing one day at a time. Hopefully I can get this done while its still fresh in my mind!

Johnny and I left Denver Friday, April 15th at 1:00pm. My mother-in-law and little Drakie dropped us off at the airport and headed back to Colorado Springs to Gigi, Drake's great grandma, and the other boys.

We arrived in London at 10:15am on Saturday morning. The 8 hour flight wasn't awful, and luckily I had some anti-nausea medication that made me SUPER groggy, so we both slept quite a bit.

We hopped on a train from London Heathrow Airport and made our first stop (with luggage and all) in Chiswick. We did a bit of shopping then walked over to where Johnny's mom was lucky enough to live for a bit. This is where she called home!

It was such a beautiful area, with old rowhomes and these flowers in bloom EVERYWHERE.

This amazing building was converted into apartments, and must've been pretty fancy schmancy (as evident by the Ferrari, Porche, and Mercedes parked in the driveway).

As a thank you to her for watching our boys, we printed this photo on canvas for her to have in her home. It was a GREAT first stop!

We then hopped back on a train and headed to our hotel, the Mint Hotel near the Tower of London. Funny story: When we checked into the hotel and were taken to our room, it was a little dirty. There was an empty clothes box on the bed, a half opened bottle of wine on the table, and a dirty trash with a sock sticking out of it. Johnny called the concierge and wallah, we were upgraded to the suite of all suites! This room had a view of Tower Bridge and an iMac in each room (allowing us to Skype with the boys!). The bed was soooo comfy too.

We dropped off our bags and hit the road!

Here is the route we walked after checking in to our hotel:

First stop, Tower Bridge.

On our way to first stop, buying roasted peanuts...my mouth us watering just thinking about them. They were sooooo good.

Documenting first stop, 2:18 pm.

View from the bridge of our hotel room

After the bridge we wandered around looking for a place to eat, we were both starving and grumpy. We happened upon this: the oldest church site in all of London! Originally built in 606 ad, then rebuilt in 1212.

We FINALLY found a place to eat, and by the time we got in, sat down, and looked around us, realized it was a little more fancy than we had anticipated. It was traditional British food, and although it looked a bit odd (and cost a small fortune), tasted wonderful!

Now reenergized, we hopped on a train and headed over to Westminster Abby and Parliament.

This was all we saw of them getting ready for the wedding the next weekend. (No, we didn't know the Prince was getting married when we booked our trip or we would've tried to be there!)

Big Ben

...and after walking ten miles around London, we made it back to our room to this view...

then went to bed.