A Tale of London from Africa

Hello from a rainy Nairobi, Kenya! We arrived around 6AM and our next flight does not board till noon (we are 8 hours ahead of Iowa). London was really cool! We ate lunch in a church crypt turned into a cafe. After lunch we took a double decker bus tour where we, of course, sat on the open top. James Bond was filmed in London in case you didn't know, which we were made aware of at pretty much every other building. Evidently they filmed all over the city. We got off to check out Buckingham palace which wasn't as elaborate as I expected it to be. And we didn't even see the gaurds with the fuzzy hats:(. The London marathon was going on so there were tons of people and you would occasionally see a runner with a medel that signified they had finished the 26 mile race! Ah! I don't think I could run the first mile! :) We also got to see London bridge, the tower bridge, the London tower, and, when on our boat tour on the river Thames, Big Ben. We pretty much got to see all the major sites of London within our 10 hour layover (it would have been 12 but our flight out of Chicago kept getting delayed every 20 min because of weather). Highlights of London for me: a truck that was a bubble machine because it blew bubbles out of the front of it as it drove and the bus tour took us onto Fleet Street! Yeah Sweeny Todd! Next stop is Kigali, Rwanda! Much love from Kenya!