Hey all! Well, as promised (a little late) I have updates about London. Overall the trip was great. I’m so glad that I got to see Mom for a week and it was great to spend it with Cheryl and Danielle. Although I knew from the get-go that I was going to be in charge of getting us around the city via the tube because immediately everyone was turned around in the airport trying to find the train outside of the airport. After about 20 minutes though we made it.
Anyways! The trip was fantastic and we saw literally every tourist thing that you could find. The first day there we took a double decker bus tour of the city so we had a general idea of where the places were in the city. Then the next few days we took tours of Buckingham Palace (saw the changing of the guards), Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and Tower of London. We also saw Big Ben and Parliament, but didn’t take a tour there. It was so great to see such historical places. We also did a lot of shopping around the town and I’m sure we all spend more than intended (I know I did). Mom and I took one afternoon and went to go see the new Harry Potter movie (FINALLY) and it was so awesome because in the first scene they were right in the areas of London that we had just finished touring. It was fantastic and good to keep our little tradition of seeing the Harry Potter movies together. Then on Thursday we got out of London for the day on a day trip to go see Warrick Castle, Stratford Upon Avon (Shakespeare’s Birthplace), and Oxford (concluding the Harry Potter funness by seeing where part of the films were actually filmed… we got to see the original dinning hall). It was great to get out and see a bit of the countryside too, it was so green!!! Seeing as how Turkmenistan is a dessert I don’t get to see green very much, only about 2 months during the spring. So the green was awesome for me.
Other than touring and riding the tube not much can be said. Mainly because I made a promise to Mom that I wouldn’t share the hilarious conversations that we all had nightly at the pubs while eating fish and chips and drinking delicious beer. Let’s just say that it was funny. In the end I was glad to have a week outside of T-stan and even happier to have spent it with the Drumms and of course Mom.
Well, also as promised we have a guest blogger to update us all! Here is what my Mom said about the trip:
I’ve been to London to visit my Abby and on the way visited The Abbey, Big Ben, The Queen’s house, had dinner in Harry Potter’s dining hall in Oxford, walked through William Shakespeare’s bedroom, checked out the pubs and the brew. We had an awesome time visiting the area and reconnecting with each other. It was a fabulous week with Abby, my best friend Cheryl, and her daughter Danielle. The places we visited were amazing and the weather was beautiful. What I treasure most was having been blessed enough to be able to afford the opportunity to go and spend time again with my Abby-Girl. It was a special trip. She has so grown over the past year.
