Day 1 - London

September 4, 2009 - I'm not sure if this was day 1 or day 2, the time zone change makes it all kind of fuzzy! But hey, this is MY blog, so I can call it whatever I want right?! So it is officially Day 1! =) Anyway, once we got our luggage from the airport (around 4 a.m. our time, but 11 a.m. London time), we found ourselves a bus to take us to our hotel, and immediately took a 2 hour nap. That was nice - beds are much more comfy than airplane seats! Then we got all dolled up and headed into the city to see. . .

. . . Les Mis! It was wonderful! The music was gorgeous - it had me crying a few times. This is the outside of the theater. Mom bought a CD that we listened to the majority of the trip since none of us had thought to bring road trip tunes, and we were not big fans of any of the British radio stations. We had those songs stuck in our heads the entire trip! Unfortunately, the CD got left in our rental car - so someone else in England is probably enjoying the beautiful music right now for free!

Here we are inside the theater, right before we got yelled at for taking pictures inside the theater. This would definitely not be the last infraction we would make when it came to "no cameras please"! Mom pretended to not see a lot of those signs throughout our trip! We honestly did not realize we were being naughty this first time though.

Ashley and I posing by a cute red telephone booth outside the theater.