Well we made it home safe and sound. Thank goodness!! The flight home wasn't too awful.  It was delayed about 45 minutes, but we caught a nice tail wind, so we landed at almost the same time we initially suppose to.  =)  Plus, the food wasn't all that bad either.  AND I got to watch New Moon TWICE! =)

This will be the first of many picture entries.  Today's feature will be our hotel.  =)  We stayed at Ruben's At The Palace (but really, it's just called "The Rubens").  It was FANTASTIC!  The service was great, the people were awesome, and the food incredibly yummy.  They were always there to open the doors, call us a cab, and take our luggage.  If you're going to London, I would HIGHLY recommend this place. =)

We don't have any pictures of the front sadly. =(  It was under construction and looking very unattractive while we were there.  Here's more of our room though:


^^Our Room Number


^^The view when you walked in the door. Bathroom was immediately to the left, closet to the right.


^^The sitting/desk area to the left after the bathroom.


^^Our sleeping area before they split the king into two twins.


^^Our fancy bathroom. The weirdest thing was that the shower door was a HALF glass door, so the water would run out onto the floor and all over our stuff. =( Don't really understand why they did that. AND there was no fan, so it was beyond hot in there when you got out.


^^This was the lovely artwork on the walls. =) There were about 7 of this cute little guys around the room.


That's all for today, I'm still trying to reset my internal clock before life starts again tomorrow. =) Look for LOTS more updates in the coming week.

After 7 hours and 22 very long minutes in the air, we finalllyyyyy arrived in London this morning at roughly 7am their time.  The flight was good, no terrible turbulance, excellent landing, no screaming kids. =)  Unfortunately, it's nearly impossible to sleep on a plane, so we're both verryyyyy tired right about now (as I write this, it is 3pm here, 10am in Michigan).  This sweet little old english man met our flight and drove us to the hotel, which is amazing!!! We don't have pictures of the outside yet, but I'll post pictures of our room below.  Terri made the oopsie of requesting one double instead of two twins, so we thought we'd be sleeping together.  But as it turns out, they had a superior king room open and we upgraded.  They even turned the king bed into two twins for us the nice people.  It's much roomier than we expected and WAYYYYY nice. =D It's a winner.   Oh, and it was ready for us when we got here, a double plus. =D

So, after checking in, we hit the town (sort of).  We walked a teeny tiny bit up to Victoria Station to get our travel passes.  We ate lunch at Pret, which is a nice deli place.  All the items are fresh made, but pre-packaged, so you go in, grab what you want, and pay (cash registers here are called "tills!" hahahaha).  Then you can sit down and eat or leave.  It's really convenient, and fairly cheap.  =)  We ventured over to Buckingham Palace and bought "hop-on, hop-off" bus pass tickets for today and tomorrow, so we did that as well.  We only saw about half of London.  We didn't get to any of the major land marks yet.  They kicked us off half way through the tour to get on another bus, but it took too long for us, so we hopped on the tube and now we're back in the hotel. =)

So far, we are super impressed with London.  Terri deemed it the best city ever.  Everyone zooms around in their cars - mind you these are not our cute little cars, they're driving BMW's, Audi's, Mercedes.  We've seen maybe a handful of Fords, a few mini-van type vehicles (BMA/Mercedes/etc type of course) and only 2 poor trucks.  I guess they don't drive those here??  I might note that aside from Ford, there are NO American cars here... hmmm...

Terri's favorite are they "weirdo, crazy, stupid motorcycle people" who zip around on their mopeds/motorcycles, weaving in and out of traffic like fiends!! They are insane!  We'll have to get pictures for you to see =)  It's crazy! Traffic is like nothing we've ever seen.  There is no way I would ever want to drive here, even if the steering column WASN'T on the wrong side of the car.  Hahahaha.

Here's a few pictures to tide you over. =)  Thanks for following our trip! We're excited to share it will all of you.  We'll update again as soon as we do something grand. =D

P.S. Tyler - you would be sooo proud: London is verryyyy green!  There's recycling bins all over the place and the busses are running "green."  It's apparently very eco-friendly here. =)


PICTURE TIMEEEEE!



This was dinner on the plane last night --- mmmm. I know you're jealous! =)


Our monitor telling us where we are in the world. This was with about 50 minutes left.


Our hotel room. There's a TV tucked in the corner you can't see and another section where the bathroom and sitting area are.


Buckingham Palace. (The Queen was in today... yay! hahah)


Not the best picture of Ashley, standing in front of Buckingham Palace. 9 hours on a plane will do that to you =)


Harrods!! =) This one is for Wendy! We'll be shopping there later this week. =) Yay!


The hotel rooms here do not come with coffee pots, but instead tea sets! How cute!!


We maybe did a little shopping this morning. =) The store we bought these at offered free samples. This tea has got to be the world's best tea. Not kidding. Hence, we bought 3!! Hahaha.