A London heatwave

And we're back. So remember how we said we didn't pack warm enough? Well it turns out London laughed in our face and told us we didn't pack cool enough. Its been in the high 70s to low 80s here with humidity added in, so its nice and muggy. Jen is on the tail end of her cold/flu while Trish seemed to pick it up on the last day in the Cotswolds. By the time we reached London, Trish's cold had added on the fever portion of the flu, yes, the most awesome part. Since we are in England after all, we kept calm and carried on.....we just carried on very slowly. There aren't as many photos as we probably could have taken, fevers really suck.

On our first day we walked through the Portobello Road street market and then made our way toward Kensington Gardens. The Portobello Road market vendors seemed to be selling a lot of the same things, think cheesy-souvenirs, so we moved on.



The best looking vendor. We say looking, because our donuts ended up being stale. We had to throw most of the two we bought away.......and we do not waste donuts, I think it was the first time we've ever thrown donuts away. we're still in mourning.


How cute is this? 70+ year old guy carrying is 13+ year old dog around the market.









Kensington Palace and the Gardens that surround it are very pretty. People were out and about enjoying the weather and generally just relaxing. We decided to go inside the palace on the spur of the moment and were happy we did. It turns out they were doing an exhibition on Queen Victoria which covered her childhood growing up in Kensington Palace as well as her reign after. There were many excerpts from her diary which detailed her great love of Prince Albert as well as the great lost she felt after he died. The exhibit was creatively done, and was almost a stand alone art installation in its own right.




Jen looking good in a period dress.





We used the bathroom even though we aren't Royals......shhhhhh.


Cool Diana wallpaper in the bathroom hallway. Yeah, our coolest pictures are near the bathroom.









Buckingham Palace





The name is Ben, Big Ben.






As luck would have it the London Film Museum's current exhibit is Bond in Motion, the official exhibition of James Bond vehicles. No replicas here. We were really excited....and the museum was air conditioned......win win.


M16 Headquarters



Original sketch describing which gadgets would go where on the DB5 from Goldfinger.


Goldfinger's Rolls Royce.


Pierce's Aston Martin Vanquish from Die Another Day


Villain Jaguar from Die Another Day


BMW Z8 from The World Is Not Enough......swooon.


BMW 750 from Tomorrow Never Dies


Aston Martin Vantage from The Living Daylights


Helicopter from You Only Live Twice


Aston Martin DB5 from Goldeneye.....sigh!


Lotus Espirt from The Spy Who Loved Me. The Submarine!!!!


Aston Martin DBS from Quantum of Solace.....road rash is authentic, as are the bulletholes.



Q's Jet Boat from The World Is Not Enough

We're off to the Harry Potter Museum tomorrow to get nerdy again and hopefully avoid some of the heat for a bit.

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