England welcomed us with rain, surprise surprise! It was cold but not freezing like it was the day we left Colorado. It was kinda strange to see the rain instead of snow, and there were big puddles everywhere. Here are the girls waiting for our rental car shuttle bus.
Once we picked the car up we drove around for about 30 minutes trying to find an ATM that would take our card so that we could get some pounds.... we actually ended up back at the airport! It then took us about an hour or so to get to the Battersea Travel Lodge where we stayed for the night. We got a bit lost and we were both getting very tired from having no sleep on the plane so we were glad to finally get there. The girls fell asleep in the car and were completely out of it.... here they are on the bed! (I did take their shoes off after the photo by the way!!!)
We all ended up asleep within seconds until about 8pm when we woke up hungry! The girls only ended up going back to bed for a few hours that night, I think they were a bit messed up because Lani asked about 12 times between 2am - 4am if it was time to get up yet! At 4am I'd had enough and got up and put a DVD on for them!! Too many time zones this week!
The next morning we took a drive into LONDON so Mick could complete his registration with the GMC (General Medical Council). It was a stressful drive and our average speed was about 10kmh. Following a map was hopeless as the street names are no where to be seen. It was peak hour but I think London is like this all the time - it was crazy. Bikes, pedestrians, trucks, buses, cars and scooters going in all directions. We were quite excited to see London Bridge, even though it was from afar and even more excited to end up in the right place and on time.
We are excited to get back into London and see all the sites, but maybe not in the car next time! Emily fell a sleep pretty much as soon as we left, about 8am and stayed asleep nearly all day... I think she could be a little jet lagged!! The drive back out of London was just as hard but not stressful as we didn't have an appointment to get to so we could look around a bit more. Lani started singing 'London Bridge is falling down' and was quite enjoying the look around. Once we got on the highway she was happy to go back to her Leapster though and she soon fell asleep. (so did I!)
The drive to Taunton was a bit over 2 hours long, we found the Hospital pretty easily and got the keys to our new home.
6 comments:
Loving all your posts Han! Good work on keeping up with them. Can't wait to see more pics of London! xx
Emily and Lani look awesome standing there with their hands in their pockets.. haha. I am sure it wasn't as good and fun as it looks in the photos as I am sure you were absolulty buggered!!!
Lani and Emily rock with those little hats and stuff. I bet Lani had hers on first and Emily decided to copy...LOL. Yeah I bet you are glad that traveling is all over. Now you just have to get back to Australia - but I guess you have a year...to plan
great to hear about whats happening in your life. sounds good.
Those two on the bed look "buggered" thats for sure. If I was there I would have been with them I reacon
Glad to see and hear you made it! Emily and Leilani have done so well. They must be the perfect little travellers. I wonder if they'll pick up a pommy accent?
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