My trip to London and Paris!

Dave bought me a ticket out to London for my 30th this year!!!! I went last weekend with my bro and sis-in-law. They were going because Jeff is in the International MBA program at Duke. They went to Shanghai last month and to London this month! Jeff is in school all day, so Steph and I hit the town. As well as taking a 3 day trip to Paris, France, we really enjoyed the awesomeness of Loondon. This was a dream come true for me, thanks Davey!!!! If you are interested in a detailed story of my trip out to London and Paris, here it is:

Day 1: London

Well, we're here! We left Dallas, TX at 9:10 pm on Thurs and after a 9 hours flight (and maybe 2 hours sleep) we arrived in London! We're running off of adrenaline right now. It just might be worth the extra $500 bucks for first class to get an awesome nite nite lay down cushy bed. Steph, Jeff and I were literally in the complete back of this huge plane. All 3 of our seats together that reclined to a comfy 90 degrees. (bearnt) But the food was good! We got off the plane and went straight to the underground subway called the tube. Each stop more and more people were majorly sardining in this thing. It was tight, but we saw a few views of "Mary Poppins" roof tops and chimneys. Lots of "gardens" and parks. Beautiful fall colors everywhere. But that all changed once we got to the city! Concrete and brick! And our hotel is right across from Big Ben, the House of Parliament (Harry Potter flew a broomstick by), Westminster Abbey (Prince William and Kate married there along with other royalty for a long time).

We rode the London Eye which is a huge ferris wheel with large "cars" made of glass you can see the whole city. The thing never stops moving so you'd better get on and off quick! Well, it goes really slow and takes about 30 mins to do. We walked around in the crisp England air eating lemon cakes and drinking warm hot cocoa. I am getting a hang of the money that have here, Pounds. It looks really pretty and cool. There are a lot of people here speaking a lot of different languages. Most people are dressed pretty stylish and English. EVERYONE has on either spandex or skinny jeans and boots. We got some yummy sugar baked peanuts on the street and just walked around. Now Steph and I are so exhausted! But we've loved every second. The buildings are all so old and ornate. I mean, one of the churches there next to Westminster was built in 1562. I mean... that's old!

My view of the House of Parliament and Big Ben from the London Eye

I tried to get a picture of the cops and their huge-normous hat (not the bushy ones from of Buckingham, we haven't been there yet). I asked if I could get a picture with them and the cop said, "Oh no! No pictures here, alright take one quick young lady- I'll be looking of" He was smiling and talked JUST like Mr. Weasley. Steph, Jeff, and I giggle whenever we here an awesome English accent. There is a wax museum of famous people named after Madame Tussere, a lady in France who took the ACTUAL heads of guillotine victims and made wax sculptures of the people or death masks of them. She supposedly did Marie Antoinette along with many other famous royals and criminals of the day. I would be fascinated to see an actual death mask of Marie Antoinette... sounds pretty amazing/creepy.

Tomorrow we are headed to the British Museum, Buckingham Palace and wherever the scrunch else we want to go! I saw a bunch of cute stuffed bears that had heart that said "London" and thought of Nora Rose! Easton and Lils would love the London Eye. They also show you a cool 5 minute 3-D movie before you go on the London Eye ferris wheel that has real bubbles, water and mist flying out at you! It was cool. The kids would LOVE that! There was a row of kids in front of us giggling and reaching out to touch everything the whole time! Miss you guys! Love you so much!!!!!