Hello again!

I've been in quite an adventure over the last few days! Yesterday, the Crown and I went into London central and wandered the city as a couple of tourists. We headed into town by express train and went to lunch with a couple of her friends. After a delightful meal of classic pub grub, we headed over to Fe's old work place and I had a chance to sit down for a few minutes to draw up some preliminary sketches for our group crest. 

After we left, we went to see the Imperial War Museum (which need up being closed for renovations), the London Eye, Westminster Abbey, Parliament and Big Ben, as well as Buckingham Palace and the Canadian Memorial in the park just off of the Palace.

We did see quite a lot and by the time we walked back to Waterloo station, we were both a bit tuckered out! We managed to catch the train back towards Aunty G and J's home where we are staying and this is where the adventure really began! We had decided on the train that it would be much easier to walk home from the station than try and figure out the bus system at around 8 in the evening, well boy, was that mistake #1! We ended up taking the longer of 2 routes back home. Instead of a 2 km walk, we took the long way home at almost 4 km, bringing our total distance throughout the day to 14km (now, for those who don't know me, I have REALLY bad knees and hips, and generally do not walk long distance in order to be able to function the next day).

However, we did make it home after passing some rather grand houses across the golf course in the neighbourhood.

Today we went to Guildford which is a town close by and went to run a couple of errands as well, one of which was collecting Fe's little sports car, which means we can head out on longer trips up north. Yay!

Tomorrow we are going with Aunty G and one of the doggies to a dog show in Redding, which should be super interesting! I'll let you know how that goes!

Cheers,

C- the Bear

Hello from the UK! It's Charissa and I can't believe its day 2 of my epic adventure with Felicia and Jacinta! I arrived into London Heathrow at just after 9am yesterday after having Jacinta over at my place the day before (She was visiting me in Calgary before a wedding in Canada).

Generally, I love flying and am eager to have that "hermit time" where interaction with other people is minimal and I can sleep, eat and watch crappy movies to my hearts content. however, this was the exception, as I was stuck next to a woman who kept on elbowing me the entire flight. For a larger woman, she has surprisingly bony elbows! And of course,to go with the extremely full flight, I was seated behind a bunch of babies  and in front of the seat kicker.... boooooo!

Anyhow, after I arrived and spent an eternity waiting to pass customs, Felicia picked me up and we went on to the place we are staying temporarily.

After a quick lunch and a lovely little jaunt in the countryside with the doggies, we headed into the hamlet of West Byfleet where we did a bit of op-shopping (aka: going to the thrift shop) and got some groceries.

Now this morning, since I've caught up on my sleep and since I've adjusted fairly well to the time change, we're off to London Central for lunch with some of Fe's friends and more shopping!!!

Cheers,

C

PS: the bag I brought over to travel with only weighs 9kg! More to come on what brought with me :)