London Days 1 & 2

I know it has taken me forever to post about this, but you can rest easy knowing that I have now begun a series of London posts!

Day 1

We set out to London a week and a half before I began teaching.  A very stressful time in my life, which ended up being to my benefit because I deal with stress by sleeping, which I did for 14 hours on the plane rides.  Rob was not so lucky, he was my pillow.  When we finally arrived in London, it was about 12:00pm and we were unable to check in to our hotel until 2:00pm so we went to this sweet natural history museum in Kensington near where we were staying.   

Keep in mind, we have not showered in over 24 hours.  Don't judge.

Awesome gargoyles all around the museum.

Apparently they have one of the largest dinosaur exhibits in the world, so I attempted to collect pictures for my 1st graders, but the lighting was pretty bad.

After that we were pretty much exhausted, so we went back to the hotel and slept.

Day 2

We went to church at the Hyde Park Ward which was within walking distance of our hotel.  Surprisingly there were a lot of Americans in that ward that were not tourists.  But I did manage to become friends with a Londoner named Maryanne who almost had a heart attack when she found out Rob and I were married... apparently I look too young.

After church we explored London a bit.

We finally made it to Hyde Park which was an extremely interesting place.  I have decided to save some of the best moments at this park for a later post TBA.  Stay tuned.

On the bridge in the middle of Hyde Park.

This is  the Princess Diana Monument.  All over there are signs that say "please do not walk or play in the monument."

There were probably over 100 people in the monument.

London has the best gardens and flowers in every park.  Like this.

And this.

Cute.

And awesome buildings lining every road like this.

and great statues every where you go.

Not a lot of pictures the first two days, but I promise it gets more exciting after this.