Our FIRST trip to London!

Yesterday (Dec. 17) we made our very first trip to London! We were all so excited to get out and explore this great city! To start off the day we drove to Newmarket to meet Nils's friends Tim and Andrew. They came with us and Tim acted as our tour guide since he had been there already. From Newmarket we drove to Epping to catch the tube (like a subway.) It was my first expierence riding a subway and I was a little nervous...I am clausterphobic, but it wasn't bad at all. Jacee loved it and wanted to stand the whole time and hold on to the bar.

 It was about an hour ride to the center of London. We had to transfer a few times and it was a little crazy because there were people everywhere! But we got off the tube and walked up the stairs, and BANG there was Big Ben.

 Jacee freaked out and was so happy to see the clock. She had been talking about Big Ben since we knew we were moving here. After taking a few pics we walked down and looked at the London Eye.

 It is ginormous! It would be so amazing to ride but I am deathly afraid of heights! Jacee wanted to go so bad...maybe next time! It would be cool to see everything from so high. There were street vendors everywhere and we got two huge donuts and they were so dang good! Oskar quite enjoyed them! From there we walked to a little Italian restaurant. And when I say little, I mean TINY!!! It was crowded of course...I had lasagna and it was pretty good. I do have to say not as good as my momma's! From there we decided to make our way down to Buckingham Palace. There were so many cool and interesting buildings, I had no clue what they were but I was snapping pictures!

As we got closer to the palace the buildings got more and more grand! I loved the Admirality Arch. And the way the sun was shining it made it glow!

We finally got to the Buckingham Palace and it was very cool to see! I loved the big golden gates!

While we were here it started to rain really lightly so we decided it was time to head for the tube and go home. As we were walking to the station we walked down this really cool street with some pretty expensive stores. It was neat looking in all the display windows.

It was a long ride back to Epping and Newmarket but we were all satisfied with the trip! There is still so much that I want to see and I can't wait to go back.