Anniversary in London - from the road
Trip Start
Apr 06, 2003
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Trip End
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London,
United Kingdom
Monday, October 18, 2004
Julie is in London for the next few days with her
upper-crust art buddies where they'll be visiting a
handful of museums and castles. Since our anniversary
was this past weekend (wow, 4 years already!), we
decided to spend a few days in the city together.
Wow, what a great weekend. I kinda forgot how
wonderful a city London is! We had both studied for 4
months in London in '97 and amazingly, we were still
able to find 2 great days of things to do this weekend
that we had never done in London before.
So following an early flight into London on Saturday,
we headed to the Portobello Road market for some
antique-ing. We didn't buy anything but did some
great people-watching. We also walked around the
Notting Hill neighborhood for a bit and took a great
(and long) stroll through Hyde Park back to the hotel
where we relaxed before dinner in Soho.
This morning, following a traditional English
Breakfast, we walked to the Imperial War Museum,
passing Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, and Big
Ben and Parliament (and of course the roundabout where
Clark W. couldn't get left). We first stopped at the
Millennium Eye ferris-wheel for an aerial view of the
city. Then continued on to the wonderful museum. I
am so upset I had never been there before. We only
had time to see two absolutely amazing exhibits -
Great Escapes and The Holocaust.
So now I'm back in A'dam, completely thrilled by the
HUGE Badger win yesterday, and ready to have a few
days on bachelorhood (which really just means mac n'
cheese from the pot while sitting on the couch in my
boxers for 3 straight nights) while Julie passes my
resume around to these executive wives in hope that
one of their husbands will give me a huge raise, make
me the VP of something as long as I have little
responsibility, and offers me a huge office with a
view!
Anyways, until then, I'll speak with everyone soon.
-Stephen
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