London

I finally said yes to going with Stacey on one of her business trips and London was the place. We stayed at a friend's house (we met with in Atyrau, KZ) for the weekend and did some sightseeing. We saw Big Ben, the Gerkin, London Bridge, London Eye, and toured the Tower of London. There was so much to do that we couldn't possibly do it all in one week so it will be a place to go back to one day. The Tower of London had some funny armour(see if you can guess what I am talking about from the pictures).
After the weekend we stayed at a hotel near Hyde Park. Unfortnately Cameron go the H1N1 so we the boys and I stayed in the hotel room for 2 days. We watched so many cartoons that Mason would just turned to me and say, "lets fight". Once Cameron was feeling better we walked to the Marble Arch, to Hyde Park, and then thru to Kensignton Park to see the Peter Pan Statue and the pirate ship. The boys loved climbing up and down the main sail of the ship and the pictures don't do it justice on how high it really was.

Since it was Christmas time we had to go to all the toy stores. It was hard telling the boys that we would buy them toys in the states (where it is much cheaper), but they got a few anyway. First we went to Harrods, but then came the grand daddy of them all, Hamleys. Hamleys had 5 floors of wall to wall toys. It seemed that every toy was on display and the boys loved it because they got to play with all of them. Needless to say, we spent hours and hours in these stores playing with the toys.

We took the ususal transportation of Double Decker buses and the tube. I love other countries transportation systems. The States have some catching up to do in that.

Our last night we went to the O2 to see the Peter Pan play. It was an entimet place and our friends got us the best seats. We all enjoyed watching the actors fly into the air. With so much to do and see, we will need another trip to do it all.