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| Leaving MSP |
Our honeymoon adventure began the night of the 27th. We left MSP airport at 7:20pm and arrived in Reykjavik, Iceland around 6:20am (time change +6hrs) on the 28th. That was sure an adventure! Our airplane pulled into the gate, we unloaded on the second level, went down the stairs, through security and a passport check, then back up stairs (along a glass wall so we could see the previous steps right next to us, through a second passport check, and, you guessed it--right back onto the SAME PLANE! We left Iceland at about 7:20am and then arrived in London, England at about 11:45am (time change +1hr).
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| Jason on the Underground. |
After claiming our baggage and then entering through the passport checks again, we made our way through Heathrow International Airport and down the LONG halls to The Underground Station. The Underground (aka: The Tube) is London's lightrail train service. We purchased Oyster cards (passcards for The Tube) and rode a train to London. We were exhausted and the 1hr train ride went pretty uneventfully, although it doesn't take long for you to get really sick of the recorded voice telling you to "Mind the gap..."
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| Trafalgar Square |
Our train took us into the heart of London and King's Cross Station. Yes, for those of you who are Harry Potter fans, that's the station where Harry boards the Hogwarts Express in the movie. It was a really cool place, but unfortunately under construction/repair so we didn't get to see the true beauty of this old station. From here we walked to our hotel . Crackerbox is a very generous term for our room. We had to turn sideways to get across the room and the shower splattered water all over the whole bathroom floor. It did have a huge window that opened--too bad there was no airflow between the close buildings! After dropping our luggage and taking about 30 seconds to tour the whole room, we decided first on our tour agenda for the day was finding a store where we could buy a fan to have some air movement! Luckily there was a hardware store just down the street where we spent the best 14pounds of the trip on a fan that we carried along everywhere we went!
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| Erika in our TINY hotel room. |
We spent the rest of the day walking around London ooh-ing and ahh-ing at all the amazing sites. Erika loved being back in London and Jason in awe that he was finally there! We spent time walking through Trafalgar Square, past Buckingham Palace, and taking some rides on the double-decker, open-top, hop-on-hop-off tour buses.
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| A beautiful evening view of Big Ben. |
-J
