The Queen wants some ice cream, cut her some slack

After a smooth flight from Dublin to London (smooth except for the multiple 'Hen' or bachelorette parties that made up most of the folks on the plane...good lord they're loud), we got to our hotel and promptly met up with Ryan and Megan! So good to see them and catch up. They had been having a great trip that included the US v Czech game, Hofbrau House, Euro Disney and a ton of other things. We headed out into London and found a great pub with the Argentina game on. Once we all had a few pints and fish & chips, it finally felt like we were on London time. The picture to the left is from the pub, if you look closely at the TV in the background there is a commercial on of a huge group of people playing futbol in the steet...with a naked guy scoring the winning goal...god I love the UK, not quite as up tight as here, and their politicians can actually speak cohearantly.

Kindra and JJ got in late that evening and after checking in, we all headed off to bed. But we rallied the next day and began a huge tour of London. We checked out the Tube (London subway, where you can get Toblerone on the platform...so good!). We went for visits at the Tower of London, London Bridge, the Milenium Wheel, Buckingham Palace and numerous pubs for lunch and mid-day pints. Kate took some heads in one of the local gift shops and we had to calm her down after she went 'Braveheart' on one of the store clerks. We did watch the USA v Ghana game that evening, but for more on that, check out the blog above.








The next day we did some impressive touring around London again. We started off with a quick Tube ride to Abby Road (famed home of the Beatles recording studio). We got there early, which is good, because it's a full-on busy-ass intersection...which obviously did not stop us from blocking the interstion numerous time and holding up traffic until we got the right picture. In the end it was worth it...even if Harris did exchange a few 'waves' with some of the locals...after all, its not like the recording studio is a new thing...if you're driving passed it, you know that the tourist are going to be out in force.
That same day, we also made it to the British Museum, which is freaking incredible. Basically they've 'borrowed' all of the best stuff from all of the countries that the British Empire has ever conquored...which as you can imaging is a lot! We saw the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian mummies, Greek carvings and reliefs, Asian writings and weapons...and seriously we didn't see 10% of the museum...which is even scarier if you think that the display items probably make up only a tiny portion of all their holdings. Ashker even pointed out that they have one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus)!...of coarse this is all hear-say, as he also pointed out that "they just closed the exhibit...a likely story I say! That evening Harris and Erin went to see a musical and the rest of us had one last great meal and pints before heading back to the hotel for a much deserved nights rest.



The next day, Harris, Kate and I went for a run through Hyde Park and saw Princess Diana's garden at Kensington Palace. The run was nice, even if we did get heckled by Ashker..."running, you're kidding right"..."nope, this is me, this is me avoiding a blood clot on the 11 hour plane ride home". When we got back, we saw Erin, Ryan and Megan to their cab for their ride to the airport. We met up with Kindra and JJ shortly after and saw them off too. Then the three of us cruised to Portabello Road for some last minute shopping on the "street where the riches of ages are stowed". We did find the lawn bowling ball with an "M" insignia (the only thing I truely wanted on the trip), and enjoyed the rest of the morning. After that we had a nice breakfast and headed off to London-Heathrow for our flight home...on Buisness Class...bitches!