London...

Well guess what...it rained in london...not just a sprinkle, but a full blooded downpour!
We still tried to make the most of it. After getting to our hotel (if you can call it that!) we went back to victoria station and boarded one of the big red busses. We did the "yellow line" which was supposed to take us around to all kinds of famous places, however there were lots of road closures, so we went around alot of them. I didn't even realize we'd missed some until we were back at our starting point!

This is Big Ben

Tower Bridge or London Bridge..can't remember which

Apparently whenever anything happens in London, they close roads. Well it would be just our luck that...
1. Di's anniversary memorial was this weekend.
2. Wimbledon is in town
3. The big Gay pride parade was saturday

and 4. Two car bombs were discovered!

So basically, we got the short tour in the rain. We still sat in the top of the bus with our "free" raincoats. Clear plastic garbage bags with hoods in them. We had fun and then we got off the yellow line and switched to the blue to end up at the famous "Harrods" department store. Again, with road closures we got stuck in a huge traffic jam. 45 minutes of sitting and going maybe 100 feet forward, taylor and I along with a mom and her 2 daughters from Orange County, got off and walked to harrods.
Harrods was interesting, but VERY expensive. We did buy some trinkets there, but nothing extravagent. No designer anything, however I did see the new Dior purses..jenn if your reading this...they're beautiful! I couldn't find the Diana memorial, but we got there late and they were closing. So off we went in the rain to head back to our "hotel". Once at the place, we turned on the "tele" as they call it, to discover that glasgow airport had been hit with a car bomb and all united kingdom airports were in CRITICAL alert.
I went down and asked the desk clerk what time we should leave and he said at least 4 hours early...ugh!
So this morning taylor and I headed out to Heathrow at 7am! Our flight was at 11am and we BARELY made it. BUT we did and now we're home!