Germany Week 13- Daughter Visits and London

Germany Week 13- Daughter Visits and London

Hello all:

Sorry I am a bit late with the blog. We got in late last night and I had to get up at 4am to get the girls off to the train for Amsterdam and then to work early at 6am and worked until 6pm. Hoping to catch up with my sleep this weekend.

Amanda and her friend, Constance, flew in last Friday and came by school. It was Constance’s birthday on Sunday so my students baked her a birthday cake. She seemed to like it. We ate out at the local brewery place. Loads of fun. We really played tourist taking pictures of the beer and the food on the plate.

Saturday we got up at the crack of dawn and left for London. First, the train ride which is always a story within itself with the characters on the train. We had to endure a harrowing dense fog ride to the train and were thrilled that we could ride instead of drive to the airport. We once again flew Ryan Air. The cheap flight. We made it to London by traveling the train, then plane, then bus and then cab to the hotel. Our cab driver took a liking to us and we planned on seeing a play. Unfortunately or fortunately, Tony the cab driver called his wife and she checked and found out that there were no play tickets left so he ended up taking us on a four hour cab ride through all the sites of London. We loved it. He would stop where he wasn’t supposed to and say get out act like you are sick and take a pictures. We did this over and over again. I got about 800 pictures. He only charged us the amount he was going to charge us to go to the play. Of course I think having my two beautiful girls with me clenched the deal of a lifetime. lol

After that we came back and Gregg and Amanda watched the game online on the slingbox in the hotel and unfortunately we lost late in the fourth what a bummer. We got up the next morning and took a cab to the Greenwich area where were staying planning on getting on the ferry but the fog was too thick to ride so we took the tube then London subway station and went to central London and got the hop on hop off bus. We went to Big Ben, Buckingham palace, the bridge and all of the sights. Amanda and Constance rode the big Ferris wheel and we took a boat ride down the Thames. A great time was had by all. The girls went back out to a pub and unfortunately for them the subway and public transportation ended at 11:00pm making them have to go through a three hour try to make it back to the hotel but they did so all well that ends well.  All I can say for London besides you do have to go there. It is expensive. Like New York on steroids.

Anyway enjoy the pictures below and I will try to be better about writing on time this next week.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Hugs from Germany

Susan