Europe!!!

We made it! After a day of traveling and little sleep we are in London! We got to take the underground to the flat. Doug said that the tunnel smelled like Disneyland. Probably all of the crowds and machinery :) We got to the flat and got the keys from a friend of the owner. My grandparents have an old friend that lives here and is letting us stay at her flat. The locks are really complicated though and we have trouble every time we come back and try to unlock them!

We explored the city around us a bit and went grocery shopping. We definitely stood out! Their grocery store was so different from ours! My mind kept playing tricks on me. Like we were looking at potato chips and in our country the green bags are sour cream and onion flavored, right? Here's it's salt and vinegar. Which is fine for me, I love those! But when I see green it makes me want sour cream and onion. I forget what the blue packaging was (which is salt and vinegar back in the states). Oh, and they also don't refrigerate their eggs. That's a weird concept for me. We got some cereal though (again, we're flavors and color coding all off), milk (semi-skimmed means low fat), soy milk, bananas, and some pringles (which the color coding was correct!) We also picked up some caesar salad wraps for lunch.

We went back to the flat and decided to nap for a bit. It was only 12:30 and Doug didn't get to sleep on the plane. Plus we were both pretty cranky. We slept for a couple of hours and then went back out. We walked to a pharmacy because somewhere between LAX and here I lost my make up bag out of my carryon bag. I'm pretty sure it just fell out when I got my water bottle out or something, and I am positive that it is the only thing missing, which is lucky for us. Everything that we've discovered that we've forgotten or lost has been easily replaceable (hair ties, headphones, and now make up). So I picked up some make up and Doug got a redbull.

We kept walking to the other side of the park to Buckingham Palace. It's so big! Unfortunately tours don't start until the 23rd...which is the day we fly to London. Oh well, I guess we'll have to come back ;)

We walked and saw the theatre where we're going to see Wicked on Thursday. We bought a map so we can get around. Doug is our navigator. I am not a map person. I can figure it out, it just takes me a little bit.

We came back to the flat and got some snacks. It was raining off and on when we were walking and now it's pretty consistent. So we're watching Friends and enjoying the rain. In a little bit Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model is going to be on, so we're excited to see the difference between that and America's Next Top Model. We're also planning out our trip for tomorrow. So far London Tower, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and the Thames is on the list. They're all within walking distance (within 5 miles), so we'll see how far we get, and what's left we'll see in the coming days.

Waiting in the airport for our flight!


The tube station that we got off on. We liked how it was tiled in.


Going up the escalator to the street


Our room




The Arch of Wellington. It wasn't open. Maybe we'll go back to go inside (it's a look out from the top)




We love the architecture of the buildings on every street!


Buckingham Palace!




Gate of Canada


The guards marching in front fo the palace


On the other side of the street from Buckingham's


Pretty self-explanatory, but I got excited when I saw this posted. Unfortunately Doug didn't know who he was. But there's lots of people from wars and battles that I don't know, so I guess we're a good match :)


The rest of the building where he lived