Day Seven: It's About Thames

The most important part of today actually didn't start until 5 pm, when General Conference was broadcast live. (A bi-annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints broadcast from Salt Lake city, with two sessions on Saturday and two on Sunday). We got home later than anticipated and will have to watch a recorded version of the 1st Saturday Session, but we valiantly stuck it thru the 2nd session from 9 pm to 11 pm! I love the Prophet, Thomas S. Monson! I gain so much comfort and wisdom from his advice and counsel. 

Day Six: A Minion's Day In

I have GOT to start going to bed before midnight, so the blog is taking a back seat to my sanity tonight. More for this entry later!

Ok , so I'm back to blogging after a crazy weekend, but I'll backdate so my 'flow' is uninterrupted (aka-posterity will never know :)

After our 'royal day out' it was time let slip the dream of royalty and get down to the business of being a modern-day minion. Both the laundry and the grocery situation needed some serious attention.

Day Five: A Royal Day Out

After my late night updating my blog, getting up this morning was extra hard. I think the only reason I made it out of bed by 9 AM was the fact that bright sunshine and a cool breeze were streaming in from the window, advertising another perfectly gorgeous day going to waste! However, after arising we were confronted with the unfortunate fact that the sewer had backed up during the night.

Day Four: Cycling, Sun, and Dodging the Bobby

On Wednesdays Richard has an early class, so we were out the door by 7:30 AM (late), and hauling it thru the tube stations.

Day Three: Hyde and Seek

As I have been struggling to get the blog for Day 3 posted I find myself torn! I mean, we did ALOT of awesome stuff in that one day! And chances are we will, at some point, have some sort of uneventful day in which I will really want to still have an awesome picture to insert! However, in the interests of chronological accuracy and posterity and all that, I have decided to post it all as it happened, on Day 3, and in one massive blog.  So brace yourselves!

Day Two: Back to School-In Baker Street!

Bright and early this morning (well, Richard was bright, and it was early) we headed off to take the tube to London Business School. Pushing and shoving were required to get on the train, and I was relieved to see that the Brits handled it with the same equanimity as the Chinese in Hong Kong. (The tube even has the exact same recording of a women stating "please mind the gap between the train and the platform." lol.)

On the way to the tube station we strolled casually by Tower of London and Tower bridge-just a part of our daily commute. Wowser.

Day One: Tight Timing for Tired Adventurers

Starting out on the 33 hour journey!

At the Heathrow Airport-just a couple hours away from being able to collapse at our new home!

Leaving St. Louis at Dawn

So we're here! We started very early Saturday morning (I did not go to sleep Friday night) when our good friend David Walker showed up at our house at 5:45 AM to take us to the train station in St. Louis. Unfortunately we left our poor house looking like a hurricane hit it, and my complete inability to leave dirty dishes in the sink for 10 weeks (inadvisable) made us VERY late. Poor Richard managed to hustle me out the door by 6:10 AM.  We got to the train station at 6:30 AM-got our tickets and sprinted for the platform.  Well, hobbled our luggage along at a respectable trot.