Our First Visitors

My Dad and his wife, Jan, are our first official visitors. We have been eagerly anticipating their visit for months now and really looked forward to showing them some of our favorite spots in London and enjoying some sight seening together.

After a nice birthday celebration at one of our favorite spots, The Providores, we decided to check out Windsor Castle on Saturday. It was pretty cool. Apparently it's the Queen's favorite weekend spot, but lucky for us she wasn't there that weekend (according to US Weekly she was in Balmoral meeting Kate Middleton :-) ) so we were able to see some of the living quarters as well. I was watching the movie Elizabeth (great flick, if you haven't seen it, you should) this weekend and it was really cool to recognize the castle in much of the film.

Dad and Jan had already seen most of what they were interested in seeing in London already, so Sunday we spent wandering around Regents Park, Camden Town and Covent Garden with the Dood. We had a proper pub lunch in a slightly dodgy local, and then walked ourselves to the point of total exhaustion. Generally a really nice day showing off our city.

Dad and Jan flew off to Dublin on Monday morning and we will meet up withe them in Brugge, Belgium in two weeks. It was really fun to have visitors and they even were graciously enough to tell us how great they slept despite the air mattress, the 4am and 6am delivery trucks to the Starbucks below and general hassle and bustle of living in the heart of the city. Must have had some serious jet lag!