Our First Visitors

This past weekend we had our first visitors here in the UK! My friend and sorority sister, her husband and their 9 month old daughter came to visit us for the weekend. Seneca is in Barcelona, Spain for 3 weeks for work and Jessica has always wanted to visit London.

They arrived late Friday, after BA failed miserably and losing their stroller and car seat... yes, on a flight that was less then 2 hours they managed to lose a stroller and a car seat! Ugh! Lets just say we are not big fans of BA right now. Thankfully they had a ergo carrier so we were still able to get some sightseeing in.

Saturday morning we headed into London for the day. We started off by taking a double decker bus tour of London - good way to get all the sights in within a few hours. We opted to not take the boat portion of the tour, which I would recommend. We took the boat portion of the tour in February and it takes longer to get to the boat, wait for it, get on & then off it then your actually on the water. Plus since its all enclosed the photos aren't very good.

Jessica, Samantha & Seneca are Canadian 

Big Ben!

London Eye

Tour Bridge

After the bus tour Jessica wanted to the M&M world store, so that's what we did. It was a mad house, mind you it was a beautiful Saturday so everyone in London was out and about, and a good third of them were at the M&M store.

M&M store 

By then it was 4pm and we were STARVING! Steve was craving cheese burgers and the best burgers we know is Shake Shack, so we took a quick cab ride over to Convet Garden. For the record I hailed  the can with one swift movement in 2 seconds. This never happens so I figured it was worth noting.

Piccadilly Circus

From Covent Garden we took a quick walk down to the river where we took a water taxi over to the Globe to walk the South Bank.

London Eye

The Globe

After a few quick photos & a stop at Starbucks for tea and recharging phones we strolled down the South Bank. We had a quick drink at a pub with some friends before we stopped for dinner just below the London Eye. 

It was a long day, we didn't get home till after midnight but it was a great day showing friends from home around our new city.