Having A Ball

We have been so extremely busy over the last couple of days and boy have we walked and walked, I have discovered muscles I never knew existed.

Right so lets prioritize;
ShoppingOh my goodness what divine things they have here, be it food or clothes shopping, the biggest thing is to remember that when it says 1pound that its not actually R1. but on a whole we are so badly ripped of in SA its scary,

Places We've Visited
We spent 2 days tubing, training, bussing and DLR'ing to get around London and visit the sites along with the other millions of tourists, it is unreal how many people there are and the locals say they avoid the tourist areas as they know its bad.
So we have seen
The Tower of London - wonderful experience, we hired the audio guides that took us around the castle and gave us all the low down.

Big Ben, Tower Bridge, St Pauls, London Eye, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace(changing of the guard), Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street(Hamley's), Oxford Street etc etc.

Teddy
Now in a lot of our photo's you will see a teddy, this is Jill's teddy that travelled with us to England and gets photo's taken wherever we go, we have snapped off so many but will show them all when we get back.

After our stay in London we travelled to Bedford to our houseboat which is great. On route to the houseboat we went via one of the largest shopping malls in England (Bluewater) but its not THAT impressive(in fact high street village shopping is better - that's what England is about - you can see these types of malls anywhere), we then went on to Cambridge and walked around the town, Chris loves the idea of this and stated he wants to come here to go to Varsity.

On our first night on the boat (night of the England playing Soccer) at 4.30am our neighbours returned from a drinking party and went for a swim in the Marina. This in itself is fine, but they were EXTREMELY noisy and decided to go swimming. The temperature must have been about 7degrees when he decided to do this, so you can image the noise he made when he hit the water.

We have taken a day trip so far to another shopping outlet in Biceister. We then went on to Warick Castle in Warwickshire and spent a GOOD couple of hours there wondering around the dungeons, and castle. On our way home we stopped in at Stratford Upon Avon to see Shakespears birth place and this is where Chris bought his 1st pressie for Jill.

Well that is a very brief summary of what we have done to date, today we are taking it easy and have friends coming for lunch, got to go do some washing etc etc.

Having a wonderful time and hope all is well back home.