Sunday Show and Tell #3

Seems I’ve got a bit of the travel bug in me these days. And so my entry this week for Mel’s Show and Tell is another travel picture. This picture is from our trip to London over Thanksgiving 2002. Jake had been out of town and got home very very late the Friday night before Thanksgiving. He crawled into bed and said, “So how would you feel about Thanksgiving in London?” He had to be in Windsor the Monday after Thanksgiving. It was cheaper for him to go over the weekend, and since the weekend happened to be Thanksgiving, they offered to let me come with him and bought my ticket.

It was a whirlwind five days as we got ready to go. My passport was still in my maiden name and there was no time to get it changed, so we had to book my ticket in my maiden name. I felt like I was cheating the system but no way was I going to miss this chance. Believe it or not, that was the first time I’d ever been out of the US, and even now I’ve only been out of the country twice. I hate that and definitely plan to travel more when Bridget is old enough to go along and NOT be in a stroller. And to not be a terror on an 8+ hour flight. So in about 10 years? Ugh.

Our trip was short. We flew on the red-eye from New York on Wednesday night, arriving Thursday morning and I flew home alone on Sunday. We didn’t get to spend a lot of time but we packed in as much as we could.

This picture was from our Friday of sight-seeing. As much as we hated to do it because it was sooo touristy, we paid for the bus tour where you could jump on and jump off at any of the stops to see what you wanted and skip what you wanted. We just knew that we couldn’t get to it all in depth so we’d scratch the surface. The last part of the day was the Tower of London. Here I am looking quite contemplative about the fact that I was standing in a place of such historical significance.

The other interesting thing about this picture is that you can see my (gasp!) natural hair color here. This was years before I jumped on the color bandwagon. I’m looking at this and wondering why I ever started to color because my natural color was actually quite nice. Oh yes, the gray hairs. That’d be why.

Anyway, I fell in love with London and can’t wait to go back when I can spend a real amount of time and experience more of it. I also became fascinated with British history. Right now I’m about 70 pages into a very long biography of Mary Queen of Scots and plan to find one of Elizabeth I after I finish this one. If I ever finish it. This one is going to be a time commitment.

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