Thinking of London

I must admit, I didn't wake up at 3:00 AM to watch the wedding, but I watched the highlights of it the next day and I bawled the whole time. I thought it was magical and a perfect fairy tale. I know I'm not a guy, but I think Kate is beautiful. My favorite part was when Harry turned around to sneak a peak of her as she was walking down the aisle. She really was stunning.

Watching it made me think of our trip to Europe and our small stay in London. Before we left on our trip, I was most excited to go to London. Lucas was the least excited to go to this place because he had already been there and he didn't think it was that great. I was really excited to see Buckingham Palace. I had a lot of expectations for this part of the trip and everything came crumbling down when we were there.

We flew there from Prague and our flight got there in the middle of the night. We had to navigate our way through the streets of London in the dark to find our hotel. As we were walking down the street that our hotel was on I got very excited because all the hotels were so cute. We kept walking and we saw one that looked awful and it had all the windows boarded up. I joked and said, "That better not be ours." Well it was. I almost started crying. Our hotel was supposed to look like this...


All the pictures I saw of it when we booked it were great, but it didn't turn out that way. Since we already made reservations and it was the middle of the night we had to stay there. The owner apologized and said it was under construction. Lucas got mad and the guy gave us a few pounds back to make up for it. Since it was a Bed and Breakfast I was curious to see what we would have for breakfast. He gave us a hard boiled egg and tea. I asked him if he offered any other drinks besides tea. He made some "hot chocolate" but it didn't taste like that to me. It was awful!

So we decided to go sightseeing. This is what I was most excited about.

Lucas had been getting sick and that day he felt horrible. We knew that they had free health insurance there so we decided to go to the hospital to see if they could give us some medicine.

This is where we stayed most of the day....

Apparently they don't work very fast at the hospital. It took forever, but they finally gave Lucas some medicine.

I was really bummed because we were only going to be in London for one day and it was almost over. We decided to ride the double decker bus to see as many sights as we could. It was a cold and windy day. (typical for London) I thought I was going to freeze on that bus.

We tried to make the best of it.

I finally got to see Buckingham Palace and the changing of the guards. This was my favorite part of the day!






Westminster Abbey, where Kate and William got married...


Big Ben...

That night we had to take a train to Portsmouth so we could catch a ferry to France the next day. We didn't make reservations for a hotel before because we figured we could just find one when we got there. We didn't realize it was spring break and every single hotel was booked. We walked around forever, but everything closes really early there. We ended up sleeping on a bench by the ferry dock. I thought I was going to freeze and pee my pants. It was the worst night of my life!

I really wish I had a better experience in London. I guess I'll have to save all my money and go back when I'm 60. I can always dream!