Well, England was a huge hit!
We spent Oct 7 - Oct 17th traveling abroad in London and Poole, England. The first five days were spent in London and we were blessed with an outstanding hotel room right next to Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park (think London's version of Central Park). We filled our days with sights such as Wimbledon (yes, the lawn tennis courts - only used 2 weeks out of the entire year, by the way!), strolling through Hyde Park, Kensington Palace, The Royal Albert Hall (a grand place for concerts, basket ball, balls, you name it!), THE ORIGINAL Hard Rock Cafe, Windsor Castle (my favorite, I think), a cruise tour down the Thames River, the Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Billy Elliot the Musical.
The second part of our adventure in England started with renting a car (the Hybrid Prius is HUGE by English standards, by the way... if you have to drive in England get something smaller!), finding out there were no more GPS units available so we'd have to go off of the dilapidated maps they provided for us, and making our way west to Dorset County to visit friends Grace and Richard and their family, stopping to see Stonehenge on the way. We had a very pleasant stay with the Sanders but it was much too short. After seeing the English seaside and visiting the city of Bath for a day, it was already time to say goodbye. Already looking forward to the day we will see each other again! I miss you Grace! You were wonderful hosts to us!
Our travels back became loooooooonnnnnnnng. Upon arriving at the airport Friday morning (3 hours early for an international flight, mind you) we found our flight was going to be delayed 4 1/2 hours! Turned out to be almost 6 hours delayed, putting us at that airport for 9 hours that day! Thankfully the airport had a shopping center and computer access. Then we were put up for the night in Pennsylvania since we of course missed our flight home. But all in all, we got home safely after being up 36 hours. Good to be home.
There are far too many pictures to post on here right now. So if you want to see pics, check out my Facebook page as I've just downloaded them all there. I will try and add some of my favorites here soon.
