London Bridge is Falling Down...

After taking a short red double decker bus trip from Waterloo we arrived in SUNNY London, who would have thought.

Well, after coping with the time change we decided before we crash and burn that we would take a look around town. Our first stop was Westminster and the Big Ben, then the London Eye. We didn't go on it though since you needed to book, and then there was no guarantee that the weather would be any good.

The we took a walk towards Trafalgur Square without passing go and without collecting $200. (as if that joke has never been made before in London...) We passed a red telephone book, and without my Superman costume, had to simply pretend to make a phonecall... For some reason all across London there was reminders of our past 8 months in Waterloo... Even the train station was called Waterloo, surely they couldn't have all copied from Canada...

Hrrmmmm Lions in Trafalgar Square and then the big red buses that we have all seen on the news a little too recently...

This picture we went to alot of trouble to collect. A couple of years ago at a Chemical Engineering Ball, Allison and I had a picture taken where we could choose the background, strangely we chose this exact one of the Admiralty Arch. So when we were there, we had no option but to make a real one. So in between traffic bursts, we ran into the middle of the road and placed our camera on a traffic cone and took one of the above pictures... Guess which is which.

Behind the arch photograph was some famous Royals palace, you may have heard of it, Buckingham Palace or something. And there was also some nice green gardens to go with it...

More Monopoly goodness was to be found. A hotel on Park Lane. We didn't have the time nor the energy to go looking for a hotel on Mayfair.

Meanwhile, I am about 1/4 of the way through London and I still have:
Paris, Southern France & Delphines house, Barcelona, Avignon, Milan, Venice, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Pompei, and Hong Kong to do, let alone all of the news since I have been home... Damn I have let it build up...