8.01.2008

London: Day 1


Well, it is finally time to start our adventure home to Dubai. We are meeting up with Dwayne in London for a few days, then we will all travel to Ireland, back to London for a day, then over to Paris before heading home to Dubai. We met a great family from Charleston SC at the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. We chatted furiously about Dubai…they had lots of questions and as usual, Lisa enjoyed being a virtual Dubai information officer. Due to mechanical problems (always make you feel confident in the flight, now doesn't it?) and severe weather, our flight left Atlanta at 9:15 pm instead of 6:40 pm. Our 8-hour flight arrived at the Gatwick airport around 10:30 am London time. Instead of settling down for a much needed rest, we headed out for some tourist attractions to get Nana (Dwayne's mom) acclimated to London. We took her over to the London Eye, rode a double decker red bus tour (The Original tour), and finished up our afternoon at the Hard Rock CafĂ© (which was good because it was insanely busy every other night we went by there). We stocked up on Hard Rock goodies and continued our “if there’s a Hard Rock..we will come” tradition.

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