Wednesday was our last big day, and we finished the fun in London. Our first stop was breakfast in Covent Garden. I had booked this as a "tea", but in London you do not have "tea" in the morning. Having said that, we had tea, but the pastry chef did not come in until after 11:00, so there were no scones and clotted cream. So, it was pretty much an epic fail. I was soooo bummed. But, the food was good…light…but good. And, now the Knepps can say they had tea in London…kind of.
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| The lovely ladies |
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| And handsome gentlemen (and missing a pic of the moms) |
Next up was the Tower of London. Leksi wasn't so keen on this idea, but I made her go. ;) I should point out that we took the Tube to get there. Due to incessant talking on the part of the moms, we lost Andy. Oops! We didn't realize that his Tube pass didn't work, and he was stuck back at the window attempting to reload his card. We just carried on only to realize (once we were ON the Tube) that Andy wasn't with us. We got off at the next stop (which was the plan if we got separated) only to find that stop was closed. Then we had to walk to another stop to get back on. Honestly, it has been so long since this happened that I'm not even sure what happened next. But, we made it to the Tower of London and several minutes later (maybe 45?) Andy also made it there. Phew! Glad he found us!
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| Ready to see the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London. |
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| And so was the rest of London, but it moved along rather quickly. |
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| A shot with the Royal Guard (that's what he's called, right?) |
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| The Vastine kids didn't get the memo that this was a "no smiling" picture with the Beefeater. |
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| The Beefeater didn't get the memo that this was the "smiling" picture. |
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| Tower Bridge is so gorgeous! This one's for you Christie! |
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| And so are the Knepps! |
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| The Tower of London |
Shots in front of Tower Bridge!
Last stop was Hamleys Toy Store. Hamleys is the oldest and largest toy store (and maybe the most miserable for parents. Ha!) It reminds me of the movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, which is equally annoying.
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| Ilyse is practicing for her future role as HRH. |
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| Ending our time in London with a photo with the (Lego) QUEEN of course! |
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| Off we go…back to Brussels. Farewell to the land of English. We will miss you and hope to see you again! |
And, the next morning, we had to say farewell to the Knepps. We cannot thank them enough for coming to see us. It meant the world to have them here with us, experiencing life in Belgium, and traveling to some of our favorite places in Europe. We love you!
(Even better…we really didn't have to say goodbye because we were going to see them in less than two weeks. Yay!)
Next up! The Vastines head to the USA!!!
Until next time,
Wendy
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