Greenwich, it was a mean time..

Dennis had to go back to work today :( so kisses at the door and off he went.

We met up at the train station with John and Nora ..minus a teen. Dun dun duhhh.. I don't know how it happened but Nora gave N the option of not coming and he took her up on it. Too much togetherness? We did stop to take a photo to make him feel better.


See what you missed?

Hopped a tour boat up to Greenwich with 30 French teen tourists who apparently couldn't translate "SHHH", and three irritating ladies who did jack-in-the-box imitations after repeated requests from the captain to "SIT DOWN". Funny bit was they kept posing like it was for an Internet dating sight.

The boat's first mate was hilarious with a great running commentary all the way up the Thames.



We decided to sit up top. Most people got off at the Tower but we soldiered on up the river. Nice day, cloudy but not too much rain.


Noni in front of the London Tower Bridge, (don't worry we were docked.)

We disembarked and walked up to have lunch. After a quick trip into the visitors center and museum brought us to try on armor!


O trying on a helmet..




P wants some of these for wearing around the house. Bruce Lee had fists of fury, P wants Knuckles of Steel.




This had me singing "Love.. Loooove will keep us together.." sing along, you know the words... If not, shame on you. Get thee to iTunes.

We went to the Maritime Museum. Saw Admiral Nelsons uniform. Found the kids exhibits where they were fascinated with loading and unloading a boat/crane simulation trying not to capsize the craft.


Enough boat stuff we were off up the hill. And up. And up. To see the royal observatory.

We stood in line for 25 minutes to wait our turn to take our picture on the Prime Meridian as I passed off my cell phone to my brother, who is an engineer, who has his masters.. He took this.


After fixing the view finder


We at least got a shot of us.

It was a long day. We hiked down the hill, caught to ferry back to Waterloo and made it home around seven. Tomorrow British Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert museum tomorrow, our time with John and Nora has gone by too fast they leave with Noni on Friday. :(

Love from abroad,
Sarah