London Part 1

After looking at all my pictures I am realizing that this will probably be like 5 posts or so. Here is part 1. We started off by getting up early and heading to the airport after a night in SLC at a local hotel. I couldn't believe that we didn't have to wait in hardly any lines, I definitely wasn't expecting that. This is the first plane we flew in to Chicago, it was very small.

I will admit that after a few minutes in this plane I was quite worried about the 8 hour flight to come. The take off and landing were not so smooth and we hit quite a bit of turbulence. Thankfully, our next flight went smoother.
Waiting for our flight, James is always making faces!

This was our 777 and it was huge! I was pretty impressed BA is a nice way to fly. We all had our own TV's and reclining seats with foot rests, this flight was nice. Oh and the food was good too. I watched Salt, it was also good.

After traveling for over 12 hours we finally landed in London. The wait through border crossing and customs wasn't bad at all, it was 6:30 in the morning over there and their slow time. We collected all our crap and headed off on the train (the piccadilly line) to our hotel.

The travel to the hotel was kind of a mess. We found out very quickly that it was incredibly COLD and it was raining to boot. But after we got settled in, fed, and showered we were ready for some sight seeing.
We stopped off at Parliament square first. This was my view from the covered area I was in.

Look up!

We walked around and took tons of pictures of Big Ben and the houses of Parliament.

Statue of Winston Churchill

Then we went to Westminster Abbey

There was so much detail, it was beautiful.

View from over the River Thames

The London Eye, we would have liked to have road it but it was cloudy and cold.

Then we went to Nelson's column

I love this picture of Mar, I think it was my favorite one I took the whole trip.

These were taken in front of the national Gallery. I love this ship in a bottle.

We then went into the National Gallery, where you are not allowed to take pics, oops. I just got one though, but we saw some awesome paintings. We didn't stay too long in here because we were half frozen, starving, and dead tired. So we headed back to our hotel for some R&R. The hotel we were staying in was this cute B&B and the lady was so nice. The funniest thing happened to me this first night. We went to bed at about 6:00 pm and when I woke up I looked at my watch it said 3:00 (home time). Well instead of adding 7 hours I subtracted 7 hours, I thought it was 8:00 in the morning. I should also mention that I heard voices in the hall and thought everyone was getting up and ready for the day. I proceeded to get up and shower repack my suit case, basically I was getting ready for the next day and I felt rested. When what I thought was 9:15 rolled around and it wasn't getting lighter plus no one had come to check if we were up I finally realized what I had done. After accidentally waking up Mar we ended up staying up until like 2:00 in the morning. Then we slept in the next day... oops! That was our first day in London and it was a big one. I will try and get day 2 posted in the next couple of days.