Last night in London

We whizzed around London today visiting the Tait Gallery and the British Museum with a bit of shoe shopping in the middle.
We walked along the Thames towards Westminster and encountered a couple of film crews starting their coverage for G20. There was a huge police presence outside the Houses of Parliament and a few of them were armed. The daffodils were amazing too.
Barack flies in tonight so it can only get worse.
Thank goodness we fly to Venice tomorrow.

Day 2 in the city

Felt remarkably good today as long as we kept moving.
One of these photos should be of us outside a huge outdoor and sports store called Lillywhites because that has probably been Paul's highlight so far. He has managed to find most of the outdoor stores in the central city and has done some serious research on a new climbing jacket.
He managed to catch up with his cousin Helen and we had lunch with Dawn and Tim and Owen in a beautiful area called Sicilian Avenue. Check out the panorama at http://www.urban75.org/vista/sicilian.html.
And then of course there is the photo of Paul being the complete tourist at a mystery pedestrian crossing. Guess where? Shame it was too cold to go barefoot.

We made it!

Here we are in London and all in one piece if a little tired. The leg from Singapore to London was an epic 13 1/2 hours. We needed all of us on duty most of the time to keep the troops happy and/or asleep.

Hannah proved to be a handy little bag handler as you can see from the photo.

We arrived at Heathrow 6.45am this morning and our only mission for the rest of the day is to stay awake until tonight.

Here we are in Singapore

Wow what an epic flight. There were babies everywhere and most of them weren't ours. Mind you with three in our camp the odds of having even two asleep were pretty slim. I think we managed two babies down for about half an hour.
So now we are camped in the airport for a 5 hour stopover. We are all looking forward to arriving. Tracy is a legend.

Traveling Buddies

Here's the cute crew we will be traveling over to London with. Should make for an interesting trip.