London, UK

2/13/08

Today we arrived in London and found our way to the little Central Hotel. We stayed across the street from the check-in desk on the top floor, Room 19. It was a cute little place, shower and toilet down the hall. Our room was tiny. It barely fit the double bed and a small dresser. It actually had a little sink in the room (the kind with 2 faucets… one for cold, and one for hot). That proved difficult when trying to wash your hands and not burn them.

We found London to be quite expensive when using the US dollar. We bought one-day subway passes for 5 pounds each (which totals about 10 US dollars each). We rode the subway around, visited Convent Garden, Buckinham Palace and got to see a few other cool buildings including the one that looks similar to an egg. Pam says it looks like a pickle. We’ll leave it at that. We saw the London Bridge and the Tower Bridge. They were so beautiful at night all lit up. It was quite cold though… so we hurried back to the subway and back to our hotel stopping only for a late night snack. It appeared we bought too much food, so we left our cheese outside on the windowsill to stay fresh over the night.