Our time is running out in London. We fly home tomorrow. I get melancholy the last day. We have had so many good times over here - with family and friends. The kids spent the Olympics here with us. Lulu teaches the summers at the FSU campus here. In 1996 - it was the first place we traveled overseas together as a family. Watching our buddy Joan flourish over here makes me feel like a proud parent again. My two favorite places to visit are Hawaii and London. Both are 10 hours by plane from our home in Florida. When you get old - you often think - is this the last time I will be here. You have to make sure that if this is the last time - make it the best time.
We wake up to a bowl of "New Balance" - tea - milk - orange juice
Our subway - the Bakerloo or Brown line - goes right downtown
Trafalgar Square - named after a battle with Spain
The lion is the national animal of the United Kingdom
The Uganda Embassy
In the subway - they are afraid of you falling under the train
Guildhall - several city museums on a courtyard
Guildhall Museum of Art - about the city
Guildhall
Churchill in Guildhall
Wellington - they love him - he beat Napoleon
Trials held in Guildhall
Standard measures - foot - yard
Queen Elizabeth Regina Coat of Arms
Guildhall Museum of Art
More Guildhall Art
The first London School board
Guildhall Library
The Mayor's Carriage
A Jewish Church
Jewish Church - was not called a synagogue.
The London Exchange
Leadenhall Market
I tell Lulu I will die from intestine problems :-)
Oxford Street at 3 PM - it was getting dark already
Buses and Cabs and rich cars. It cost $16 a day just to drive you cars in downtown London. THEY ARE TURNING OXFORD STREET TO PEDESTRIANS ONLY NEXT YEAR.
Christmas lights (LED) over whole building
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire - boy did they stink.
My favorite car - the Hybrid Double Decker Bus
This pub is right by Joan's - The Warwick Castle. Note the marble fireplace. The fuel looks like chunks of coal - but it is natural gas. Last night the girls went to Apologia with Stockard Channing. She is 74 now.
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