London 2010

Well - 24 hours in London - here goes nothin'

The Flight - a non-stop flight certainly is the way to go. Imagine - in Minneapolis, MN and 8 hours later - taking the Heathrow Express to Paddington (even the names sound so English). After supper and a sleeping pill I awaited blissful sleep but that was not to be. It is hard to believe that the airlines can put seats so close together but for the no frills bargain cost of $1000.00 you too can be squashed like a sardine into the smallest possible seating configuration (no reclining on these seats but of course that wasn't mentioned for seats 36A and B when I booked the reservations - hmm must have slipped their minds at Delta). Also, must have been an engineering majors greatest plight to figure out how to fit that many humans into such a small space and to add insult to injury - it is always fun to walk all the way past the first class and business sections just to show us zone 3 people what we could have had for another $1000.00. Hah!

So much for the US leg of the trip. On to England. It was 10 times easier to go through customs in England than it ever was to go through in Canada - phew - what a relief. With the wonderful assistance of from the waiting UK airline assistants we were swiftly moved to the Heathrow Express where we took a 5 minute ride to the last train that would deliver us to Paddington station where our Angela awaited us.

When we got into the Paddington station it was if Tom had instant radar for Angela. He wound his way in and out of the crowds and found Angela in a station of 1000's of people within minutes. Watery eyes met us as we hugged up our little girl. It was so great to see her after two 1/2 months.

We caught a taxi and off we zipped to the London Bridge Tower Hilton. That's right, it was blocks from the London bridge. What a beautiful structure. We checked into our hotel and headed up to our room. The bed was so inviting as we

With bags in tow and after a lot of long missed hugs, we found our way to the taxi stands and there lined up were the cutest "super nanny" type cars all in a row. We made our way around London to the London Tower bridge Hilton. Oh, it felt so good to find our way to our room but not to bed as we were trying to cheat jet lag.

Too late, I was done in and so out of it that I crashed immediately. Tom was much more adventurous and he and Angela went out and about our Hotel and found the London Bridge Tower. (see pics) I slept through the rest of the day and all night till the next morning as I did not even sleep one hour on the plane. I was however, bright eyed and bushy tailed by 8:00 am the next morning and ready to go!