Our fall break adventures took us over the pond to London, England. Thanks to the evening/overnight flight, I was able to work in my office most of the day and William was able to go to school until 2:30 before we got on our comfy clothes and headed to the airport! We took John, too, I just don't have a play by play of his day! Our flight over was 3 x 4 x 3 so we had our own row. Of course I got the middle seat, since everyone wants to sit by me! But we had plenty of legroom.
We arrived at Heathrow around 9 a.m. local time (3 a.m. Chicago time) and enjoyed a sleepy cab ride to our hotel. Since our room wasn't ready we left our bags and headed out into the brisk air to start seeing the sites! The weather the entire week was a comfy 60 degrees and mostly sunny. Our hotel was at the base of Westminster Bridge, opposite Parliament and Big Ben! At the hotel was the London Eye. Spoiler alert: we never rode the Eye although we planned to! The day we were finally ready it was overcast.
After the museum and a snack, we did some scenic photos and hten crossed the Thames by walking across Waterloo Bridge and were excited to discover a little park at the base of Parliament! We didn't try to go into the Parliament building (not sure if you can?); our destination was Westminster Abbey before it closed for the day. I had been on my other visit to London but was still excited to see it again and to share it with the guys.
We walked closer to Big Ben on our return to the hotel over Westminster Bridge. It will be silent for the next several years as the tower or clock is restored. Thankfully our room was ready upon our return. Either the rooms all had amazing views, or we looked very sad at the early morning attempt to check in. Whatever it was, we got a beautiful room and amazing view of the Thames and Parliament.
The travel caught up with us and we started dozing off at 5 pm. We grabbed some quick food and called it an early night.
William chose our first stop, the Imperial War Museum, after hearing about it from our airport taxi driver. It was a few minutes walk behind our hotel (on our side of the Thames River). In the first picture he is literally running for the missiles displayed in the front courtyard!
