Day Eleven

I had to take a picture of the window in our Hotel. I looked at it a lot when I couldn't sleep at night. It gets light really early there. It was a nice little room we stayed at the Quality Inn at Buckingham Palace. It was small but very clean and the staff was great. We were not there much so we really didn't need anything more. From the time we left our hotel room until we drove up to our drive way it took about twenty hours. We did have a couple of hours lay over in New York. Our plans are to take the grandkids that are nine and older next year to New York. I will have three that will be that age and my sister has two. I guess if that is going to happen i better get to work!!!!

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Day ten

We spent the day gathering gifts to take home enjoying a nice lunch. We ended the day by going to the Broadway Show Love Never Dies. It definitly wasn't a Phatom but it was okay a bit disappointed.

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Day Nine visted Kew Gardens and the Crown Jewels

Day Nine we went back and visited the crown jewels I couldn't take a picture but they were amazing. We also visited Kew Gardens it is one of the worlds larges garden. I prefer a more formal garden so I didn't enjoy it as much as a I did Hamilton Palace garden. I do have to say though one of the thing i enjoyed the most is just spending time with my sister. She is a great sister!

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Day Seven and Eight

We decided to check out the markets. We found the Portobello Market close to KnottinghamHill. I loved this market it was a lot of fun. We also went to the Camden Market which was fun but after going to Portobello it really didn't compare. We did find some cool jewelry and purses at both Markets. At Camden we had a pedicure done by these little fish. You put your feet in the water and they eat all the dead skin off our feet. It was an interesting experience. At Portobello market I found some very neat antic picture frames. We ended the day by going to see the Broadway show "Billy Elliot" I was disappointed I did not find it appealing

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Sixth Day

Oh it just came to me so I better write it down. Paris... we rode the train to Paris. We rode the train to Pairs and it only took abut 2 hours. it was a lot of fun. We seen a few of the major sights and went shopping.




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Our Fifth Day in London

You know the biggest reason i keep a blog is for me. i have the worst memory. Because i didn't write down what we did each day I am already forgetting. Sometimes i think they blog can seem superficial because the outside world is looking in. I have been thinking about making it private because why bore the rest of the world with the things you do in your life. But i think it is fun for my grand kids so I do it I apologize to the rest of the world.

But back to trying to think what i did the fifth day. By my pictures I think we went to Hamilton court and Windsor Palace. This was actually one of my favorate things to do. I loved the little village around Windsor Palace. I loved loved the gardens of Hamilton. You can see them on my garden blog. Ok it going to take me a couple of days to figure our what we did day six

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Fourth Day in England

We visited the City of Canterbury. We found a plaque in the cathedral of one of our relatives. I had to take a picture. It was a charming city. We also visited the Leek Castle which I was amazed how good of shape it was in. I guess it has been lived in as recent as the last 15 years. It has a mont around the castle just what I envision a castle to be like. We also visited the Cliffs of Dover which meet up against the English Channel. It was another fun day.








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Third day in England

We went to York on our Third Day. We rode the train in First Class, I was surprised to find it very delightful. The scenery was lush and green with rolling hills very beautiful. We had done some geneolgy before we left and found that on our four grand parents line we had traced their lines back to the mid 1600's where they all had came from England. We found our selves wondering why they would want to leave such a beautiful country. York is was built in the 13th century. They built a wall around the city. The above picture was taken while we were walking on the wall. It was fun to look down into the back yards and see the beautiful gardens. They had fun shops and boutiques there we found a few treasures to take back. We took a hop on hop off bus tour that was to last until 1900 hours and we were to be back to the train station. However the buses quit running and 1700 hours and we found ourselves stranded with no way to get back to the station. It took us a while to figure that out. But we walked in the rain and had a good time. We finally ran into the area they parked the buses and asked that someone take us to the train station. We paid them 10 pounds and they were very happy to do so. We found that the people in England are very kind and we enjoyed them very much.


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