chase the light

Got up at 3:00am this morning to start the super tourist day. Oh, I mean 11:00am local time! Yikes! Black out curtains work way to well when on holiday, I suggest not using them. Today looks like a rain day so how about a tour of the city by open top bus? Sounds good huh? well, no, no it doesn’t does it. We just made the best of it by throwing some plastic rain ponchos onto the seats and trying to keep warm the best we could. How did it work? Very very poorly. I’m c-c-c-c-c-cold again.

We stayed on the bus for a bit to get my Mom acquainted with the city and got off near Harrods and went shopping in there. That store is sooooo crowded! The food area downstairs is just insane. I think the trick is to go there as soon as the doors open to get about 1 minute of normal shopping in before it becomes a cattle drive. Grab and go. We rode the Egyptian escalator up and down and there was an opera singer belting out something. Funny.

Since we got a late start it was already dark out by the time we headed over to Oxford street and we walked down and saw a brass band and I bought a thick jacket at a store. Know why? I’m cold. We made it an earlier (not early) evening and headed back. Watched the TV a bit and was done.