London Post #2

We took 2 trips while we were in London: Paris for a day and Edinburgh for 2 days.  I was just okay about Paris....the sights were cool, the wine was really good, but the French weren't the nicest.  We left really early one morning and took the Chunnel (train that goes underwater part of the way) to Paris.  Really glad we got to go but we were happy to get back to London that night.

Scotland on the other hand I absolutely loved! Edinburgh was like something out of a movie....and it rained almost the whole time we were there so that's saying a lot. Everything was so pretty, I loved the people, we stayed in the cutest Bed and Breakfast, I found out that I really like Jamison and Ginger Ale and we got to go in a real castle! 


Paris pictures:

On our way....really early in the morning!

 View from half way up the Eiffel Tower

 It was cheaper than bottled water...

 We met Robin and Ginny (and their mom the Juvinator) in Paris.  It was so good to see them....especially Robin who we hadn't seen since last new years

The gang- minus Darin who was taking the picture

The boys

 The street dancers that lured us into their show....pretty sure my awful face was because he had just kissed my cheek

Lindsey was also less than impressed by their "moves"

This pretty much sums up the boys trip to Paris

 Having fun with our jump pictures

 Notre Dame

The ONLY nice waiter we had all day!

Edinburgh pics:

Heading into our bed and breakfast

 First stop was to buy Rubbers...AKA rainboots :)

 The castle

Whiskey tasting with the bed and breakfast owner

Olympic events post is next....

London Post #1

We just got back from a 2 week trip to London.  It was the coolest trip we have ever been on! We had planned the trip basically ever since the Beijing Olympics. We went with our friends Lindsey and Dustin (who actually got engaged the morning before we left!!) and our friend Chad (whose wife Adrien got pregnant mid planning and couldn't go). So his college friend Andy (who we didn't meet until we got to London but all immediately loved!!) stepped in and went last minute.  The kids stayed with Mammy and Mike in Tulsa for the first 9 days and then Papa and Nana flew from California to stay with them at our house the last 5 days.  I got to FaceTime them every couple of days which helped them and me A LOT!!! The kids had an absolute blast with the grandparents and were spoiled rotten for 2 weeks. We are so lucky to have family that will drop everything and take care of our kids!!

Both Darin and Chad are REALLY into photography and took awesome pictures the whole time. I had over 1500 to sort through :)  So here we go with LOTS of pictures.....

 

 Darin found this couple online that we rented the flat from. Here we are with Adam and Jude when we first arrived in London. They gave us a tour and had lunch before going out of town for the 2 weeks. 

This is the AMAZING pub The Nightingale that was right across the street from our flat....we spent a lot of time here :)

They didn't have a dryer so we hung our clothes to dry...this got old and I couldn't wait to dry everything when we got home

 We did a lot of sightseeing in London on days that we didn't have Olympic tickets



 One of the many bathrooms that I had to pay to use.

 We joked that we had paparazzi following us around



 Hanging with Summer Sanders in the Chase VIP Lounge

and Gary Hall Jr

 The VIP Lounge was awesome...free drinks, snacks, wifi and TV's all day

 View from the London Eye

 We literally went nonstop for the 14 days we were there....so Lindsey and I had no problems falling asleep at every opportunity we could.  And somehow the paparazzi always got a picture of it...

 

I will do more blogs on the trips we took to Paris and Scotland and all of the Olympic events we went to soon!