London

It's weird that a flight to London feels short but I'm used to a 13 hour direct to Addis Ababa so, relative. Anyway there really wasn't much time to sleep and I didn't. We arrived in London at 6:30 am local time and it was go time from then on.

We hired a taxi to our hotel in Soho. It's a little boutique hotel Stacy found online and I will tell you it is sublime. Excactly what I love. Small, hip, in the middle of everything and just quirky enough to keep it interesting. We had a nice breakfast in the hotel, lots of soft boiled eggs and brown soldiers and such. But no time to linger, we had a marathon tourist bus route to get to.

Yep you heard me right, BUS route. In the middle of January we rode on the top deck of an open air tour bus around London. Yep it's cheesy, but bloody hell, we owned it.  We saw everything (in passing mostly); Big Ben, Towers of London, Buckingham Palace, Parliment, the London Eye, Picadilly Square, Trafalgar Square and a few other squares. And, I'm not gonna lie, for at least a little bit we fell dead asleep...on the bus.

We did have a proper nap before dinner which was at a seafood market near Pacadilly Square called Milos. It was Greek and good, even if the fishes eye was looking at us the whole time. After dinner we walked back to our oh so lovely hotel and had desert and a nightcap in its swank lounge.

And this will tell you about our current priority, when we got back to the room we about squealed to see our bed turned down with a bottles of Evian on the bed tables and bottles of lavender eucalyptus pillow spray for each of us. Pinch me I think I'm in heaven....or at least a heavenly bed.

And so goodnight from London, I'm surrendering to my sweet lavender slumber.