We had a FABULOUS with
Kim, Dave and the kids here.
So nice to share some of our love for London with them.
Because Kim did such a GREAT job doing a daily Facebook post, I'm just using much of her stuff for my record. Thanks Kim! (Sorry if you're bored because you've seen most of it.)
Day one: Big Ben, double decker bus, Trafalgar Square, ice cream, Buckingham Palace, St. James's Park, Westminster Abbey & fish & chips. #lovelondon #lovefamily #lovesleep
Day 2: Afternoon tea and front row seats to see Wicked, where Elphaba said hello and waved to the girls during curtain call. #lovelondon #lovewicked #love scones #couldgetusedtothis #thanksdadforwatchingzack
Day 3: Went to Warwick Castle and watched jousting, met princesses and climbed lots of towers. Also saw Shakespeare's home. #lovingengland #lovecastles #could get used to this
Day 17: Making of Harry Potter Studio, shopping, Jinnie played Bells of Great Britain on a piano in the middle of a train station, last afternoon tea, Harry Potter board game, Picadilly Circus with Dave, and ate treacle tart, sausage & mash and drank elderberry juice. #lovelondon #lovefamily #needtofindabutterbeerrecipe #couldgetused tothis #cantbelievethisisendingsosoon
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| Practicing spells. |
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| Butter beer is delish! |
Day 18: Packed, pictures at Abbey Road, shopped, kids returned library books & played in the gardens, played dthe London version of Monopoly, and said goodbye. #wenttoofast #lovelondon #lovefamily #missmyparentsalready #heathrowhasthebestkidsareaever #toomuchturbulance #letthejetlagbegin
You can see we did a
TON and this is just a condensed version. Twas so much fun!
I must explain Day 14
a little.
As we were hopping on
the metro, it appeared a man was sort of helping Rick with the stroller but he
was really helping himself with the contents of Rick's pockets. He passed the
wallet (which was in his front pocket) off to another man who hopped off the
train as the doors were closing. When he took Rick's phone from his little
change pocket, Rick felt it and confronted him. Soon we had him emptying his
bag onto the floor looking for the wallet too. A woman standing back further
said she'd seen him pass it off. Rick grabbed him as the door opened, but he
broke away and took off running....never dreaming a gray-haired man could run
so fast. A man from our train tripped him up a bit on the stairs and Rick was
able to grab him again. Three gendarmes were waiting at the top of the stairs
for them. Several people who saw the whole thing stopped and gave statements.
The thief, Rick and 4 policemen had the ride of their lives getting to the
police station as if it were an emergency. Glad they're still alive. We're told
the thief would be before the judge in the morning and straight to jail.
Apparently he'd given a false name too and must have had a record cuz they
figured it out.
A week later a letter
was sent to our home address saying the wallet was found. Rick will be back in
Paris in a few weeks and will pick it up then.
Blah. I used to love
Paris.
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