Girls Day Out

Before I tell you about my super fun outing, I found these three pictures from our flight back a few weeks ago. I didn't mention that our flight from Dallas to Detroit was messed up and they put me and Addie in First Cass! Actually, on any other day I would have been super pumped to be in First Class, but with Addison? I nearly had a breakdown. I was so nervous she would be too loud or throw a tantrum or throw food, you just never know! I did get some "looks" from the men in First Class but our sweet flight attendant must have been able to tell I was anxious and she told me not to worry about it. She even said "As far as they know, you are a paying customer and you can sit here!"  She was so funny. So, for about 2 hours Addison and I were living it up in First Class. She talked way too loud, had to use the potty 4 times and ate a lot of snacks. 

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This is a picture of her as we were landing in London, she was OUT.

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But sat up right at the end to see what was going on...this is "airplane hair" - it's always in knots by the time we are done travelling!

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Yesterday, I met my good friend Joy in London for the day! We had a really fun time.  She was flying back to Africa from America, and had a long layover in London. I took the train and bus to Heathrow and once she arrived we hopped on the tube into town and had us a girly day!  I must admit that I was super nervous about this for several reasons, but God was so good to me. I have never (I know, I know) travelled without Marc. And I've never navigated London without him! So, he dropped me off at the train station early Thursday morning with detailed instructions on what I was suppose to do.  But I must say, it was super easy and SO FUN! I'm proud of myself for doing this, I'll just go ahead and say it. *grin*

I even laughed when our train broke down and we had to walk across the tracks to another train headed to London. I sent Marc a text saying "TRAIN BROKE DOWN!" I handled it all very well and just followed the mass of people. I was bummed because I was sitting nice and cosey in Coach A reading Jen Hatmaker's book "7" and when we had to switch trains it was so crowded that I ended up standing in between cars where the toilets are for about 25 minutes. So, I took the train to Reading, England and then you switch to a RailAir bus that is about a 40 minute ride to the airport. It was super easy! As I was waiting on the bus, a girl next to me started talking to me and she was American!  I told her what I was doing and she even said she was flying back to America to see her family for the first time without her husband and we laughed about how we were both nervous about it. We chatted the entire trip to the airport and even hugged when we said goodbye at Terminal 5. Only God could orchestrate that neat meeting for us! 

Ok, so our first stop was to eat lunch at Tortillas- a Chipotle type place. So good!  Then we ended up in Picadilly Circus and just walked everywhere.  Trafalgar Square is just "around the corner" so we spent some time there taking a million pictures. Well, Joy took a million pictures while I just laughed at her. She has never been into London before so she was enjoying it so much. At one point she looked at me and said "I'm being such a tourists aren't I?"  Um, Yes. 

They had this countdown to the Olympics in Trafalgar Square-

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You can see Big Ben from Trafalgar Square, so we took off walking in that direction..passed Whitehall, Downing Street, took more pictures.

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And then we ended up at Westminster Abbey! It was a cold, but beautiful day, so this picture turned out great!  We decided at the last minute to pay for a tour, but we can't take pictures inside. I had been in there a few years ago, but after watching the Royal Wedding in April, I couldn't wait to see it again and stand where William and Kate stood and walk in the door where she arrived- so fun!

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The Great West Door- Kate's big entrance!

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The sun was setting and it was getting colder, so we hopped back on the tube back to Heathrow (about an hour's ride)

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It was so fun to hang out with Joy for the day.  She and I skype all the time and she's such an encouragment to me.  She lives out in the African bush and homeschools her precious kids...she's my hero. She is usually sweating on skype and I'm all wrapped up in a blanket. I love that we can skype from Africa to Wales and encourage each other at this time in our lives!

And a special thanks to Marc for taking care of the girls all day- in fact, they loved it. Daddy fed them Cookie Crisp cereal for dinner so what is there to complain about? 

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