The 1631 does London

Well these have been an eventful couple of days. Since I last posted, four of our friends from Tulsa arrived to stay with us in London for a few days. Ken, Dave, and Greg have been traveling for the past couple of weeks all around Europe, and Jason joined them for the last leg of their journey- London. We met up with them on Wednesday after we got finished with work, and after trying to get somewhat reasonable tickets to see Wicked, returned to our neighborhood and had a picnic in the park. Thursday, we woke up and went to the National Gallery, ate lunch on the steps of Trafalgar Square, and then headed towards Parliament Square. We decided to get in line to go see the House of Lords debate, which would have been about a 45 minute wait. As soon as we got passed security and into the building, we got lucky, because MP Colin Burgon from Leeds noticed our group on his way in and whisked us away on our very own personal tour of Parliament. So while everyone else waited in line to watch a debate from the balcony, Colin escorted us throughout the building and into the restricted access areas as well, with one of our stops being the members only patio looking out onto the Thames river. He entertained us for about an hour, and we decided a personal tour from a member of parliament couldn't really be topped and skipped seeing the debate.

After that we moved on see Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Knightsbridge and Harrods, and the Natural History Museum. It was a full day! After we got back to the apartment and had dinner, we went next door to Young's because it was Kassy's last night in London. We had fun with her, and were sad to see her go. Yesterday we woke up and hit up the Science Museum before hopping on a bus to Canterbury to visit Harvey! It was a lovely little town and a beautiful campus. After Harvey and Jason made breakfast this morning, we decided to walk into town to catch our 11:45 bus back to London. Jason, Greg, and I headed up the front, with Sally and Dave in the middle and Ken and Harv bringing in the tail. The three of us made it to the stop with a couple minutes to spare, so we figured the other two groups would be shortly behind us. So when a few minutes later Ken and Harv showed up, we began to wonder where Sall and Dave were. Well, turns out they took a wrong turn and were a little lost. So the two of them missed the bus, which was fine because they were able to make it on the next one. Just a fun little adventure. The boys went exploring in London this afternoon while Harv and I waited on Sally and Dave to get in, and now all of us are back at the flat, getting ready to go see Avenue Q! Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend.