Getting Around

Well today I did it. I finally checked out the sites of Ol' London Town! Shailie took me on the mother of all tours - designed so that I could say I have seen the greatest amount of sites possible whilst still spending half of the day shopping. We are definately related!

1. Shailie

You can't say you have experienced a "big crowd" until you have attempted to walk underneath the London Eye on a Saturday morning! Even more importantly, you can't say you've been entertained by an Aussie girl who hates crowds with a passion until you've met my cousin and witnessed her 'crowd surfing' skills!!!

HIGLIGHTS OF THE DAY:

**Big Ben

**Houses of Parliament

**House of Commons

**Westminster Abbey

**Hyde Park

2. The lonely busker

**Declining the invite of tea and scones with the queen, for hot chocolate with Shailie in the park

**Debating whether the perfectly posed and behaved squirrels attended a government funded training school to draw more tourists into the country.

**The great red double-decker buses like in Postman Pat or Fireman Sam or Thomas the Tank Engine or Bob the Builder.....erg - can somebody help me out here?!!!

**The cold, old Scotsman playing bagpipes on the bridge

**Going on a (failed) mission to find thermal undies for Canada

**Checking out the 'House of Poets' that I'd read about in the Da Vinci Code

**Going to the pub with James, Shai, and their mates

**Seeing a DOG in the pub!! (what the?)

3. The London Eye

**Having Indian for dinner at 9:30pm because waiting for the 10:15pm reservation would have killed us!

**Learning that not all of London's Bridges are falling down

4. Big Ben

5. The half-frozen lake