Left cold snowy Calgary at 6pm local time - overnight arrived Heathrow 9:45am. Saw Northern lights over Baffin Island on the way. Stacking up with the dozens of other huge planes over London was wicked fun - big lazy circles in formation with a British Air 767 over the city with great views of the the Thames, London Eye, St. Paul's, the Millennium Dome and the Parliament. Probably one of the most thrilling rides we'll have!
Jill met us and we had a downright scary taxi van ride back to her place in Walthamstow. Settled in, and then rode the tube down to Green Park. Daffodils are up everywhere. We visited the Canadian War memorial (nice fountain with scattered bronze maple leaves), checked out Buckingham palace - apparently missed seeing Queen Liz leaving in her car by about 10 minutes. We hung around thinking she'd just popped out for some beer or a loaf, but she didn't return. No changing of the guard when she's not at home! Lazy sods...
Visited Trafalgar Square before heading home on the tube for pizza dinner. Both David and James sound asleep on the tube... Experienced the truth of travel with kids as someone really had to go to the bathroom on the increasingly fast walk back...
Thanks Becky for the ride to the airport and the cookies this long morning ago! Thanks Jill for taking such good care of us on our first of 155 days of travel! Hopefully our energy will increase as we overcome our jet-lag, and we will see many more sights in London over the next few days.
Will post pictures as soon as we figure out how...
Rob
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