Archive for the 'Seeing the world' Category

The Return Trip from Hell

Note: The trip was not hell. The trip to London was wonderful. But the flight home was horrible!
Sunday, June 19th
The weather today was unseasonably hot for London. It was in the 90s. A far cry from earlier in the week.
We got up around 9am today. Checkout time was noon and we needed to be packed [...]

Where the Wild Things Are

Saturday, June 18th
The weather today was HOT.
Keaton wanted to go to Legoland, but Grandma Cathy wanted to go on a river cruise. Grandma won. We spent our Saturday morning on a cruise on River Thames. We saw a lot of the sites we’ve already seen, but we were finally able to get a good look [...]

Gimme Some of Them Jewels

Friday, June 17th
The weather was much nicer today. It finally started warming up and there was no rain today.
We’ve been talking about riding on the London Eye all week, but the time just seems to fly by. So that was our goal for today. Going on a week day was a good idea, because the [...]

Me, a fugative?

Thursday, June 16th
The weather today was a little warmer. It rained on us most of the day, finally clearing up in the evening.
I don’t know about you, but when I think of London I think of the Queen and the palaces and guards. So, of course, we couldn’t leave without seeing the Changing of the [...]