Champs Elysses

Our spot for Happy New Year. 7 hours to go.

Mona Lisa

It maybe a bit blurry....we were squished like pancakes trying to get to the front for a picture. Lots of pushing and jostling.

Eating pizza on the most famous french street in Paris

Champs Elysses

Eifiel tower

Paris

E.T.

Paris streets

Finally on the streets of Paris. Saw the first armed guards standing with their machine guns ready.

Breakfast on the Champs

Good morning from Paris

Tea

Linda and I had tete on the train to Paris.

Paris

They're finally going to get ice cream

Paris here we come!

On the Eurostar headed for Paris. Brian is planning our escape upon arrival! He got stripped searched by the Frenchies! 

London Tower

Tower Bridge from the Thames

Church

Boat ride down the Thames

Man card

Should we consider revolking Brian's man card?

If I hear one more fitbit stat.......

7 miles and 40 flights of steps you are darn tootin we are going to announce our stats. (Carol)

aka dinner

Sausage and mash, fish and chips, and steak and ale pie. Yummy!

Straight vodka

What do you think??? Okay it was straight water meaning no ice cubes.

Underground

We figured out the underground. We were so happy to get to sit down. (Carol)

Double trouble

Tower Bridge

The Queen's Way

This is the walkway along the Thames River on our way to the Tower Bridge. (Carol)

London Bridge

Looking at the Tower Bridge. Doesn't Linda look so British in her hat? (Carol)

St Paul's Cathedral

Girls are taking the tour. The tour was great. The church is beautiful inside. No photography was allowed inside. There are lots of tombs and they had a service while we were there. (Carol)

Tour bus

Taking a tour around London on a double Decker hop on, hop off bus. Are planning on going to several attractions afterwards.

Old man Cloud

Up in the Clouds with old man Cloud. Love that fella!

Breakfast

Oh yeah, scrambled eggs, sausages, beans, toast and hot tea. What a great start to the day. You can also get Nutella packets for your toast. Yummy.

Late night

Yesterday (today) was brutal travel day. Finally figured out data roaming and wifi this evening so now you'll see lots of posts tomorrow (today) from the sunshine sisters. Its 1030 pm and i am wide awake, they've both been sleeping for hours. feels like afternoon to me and time for dinner. took ambien with zero effect so now we are all off sync and i normally sleep half the amount carol does in a night when we are home. #hopeless i'm typing this one handed leaning under the bed to the symphony of their snoring so i don't dare disturb things. I've learned in England that not many Americans or English people are here - at least at tourist places. lots of European tourists and the service people are middle-eastern i think. Weather is nice(ish). 50s, definitely cloudy and always some kind of mist falling. Hotel is nicer and larger than i expected. i think the room is overheated so we have windows open. during our quest to pick up our tour bus tickets for tomorrow (monday), we saw the Thames River, big ferris wheel thingy, parliament buildings, Westminster abbey, set my watch to Big Ben, saw trafalgar square,and a glimpse of buckingham palace, ate Fish and Chips - bangers and mash, and had a luke warm-but tasty beer at a tavern called The Red Lion under the shadow of Big Ben (if there was a sun). 

We've sure heard about the terrible weather at home and hope everyone is safe. There has been flooding here in northern areas of uk but shouldn't affect our trip until next week. This typing style has killed a couple hours so its already tomorrow.so I've only got about 9 more hours to lay here peeplessly so i don't get yelled at.#nochance hate to spoil it for yall but the cowboys lost again......

Tate Museum

Oh Yeah

Finally on board after a 3 hour delay. Do I want to watch a movie or sleep first? Hummm. I think Linda is planning on snoozing.

De plane, de plane!

Our plane has finally arrived. Not sure what the mechanical problem was but we would appreciate some prayers. It's been fun listening to the flight attendants chatting in the Queen's English. Now the pilot needs to check things out and we will be allowed to board. We all got about three hours sleep last night so we are ready to go night, night.

#andstillnoplane

Nothing like a 7 hour layover including a gate change and a 2 hour delay to kill the momentum. *Edit...8 hour layover

Now the wait....

Arrived in Houston save and sound. We now have a four hour layover before heading across the pond.

What!!!

I think we passed through the twilight zone.

1st leg

We are on the first leg of our trip headed to Houston. This is the smallest plane I have ever been on. Its the smallest one in United's fleet. Yikes! We are really cozy however.

Boarding to Houston

Packed and ready to GO

It's 9:30 p.m. and we are each packed and ready to go. We will be leaving the house tomorrow morning, the 26th, at 6:00 a.m. Our journey will take us from DFW to Houston and then Houston to London. The trip over the ocean will take approximately 9-1/2 hours. We have each packed items to keep up busy during this leg of our flight. However, we are debating staying awake all night tonight in hopes of sleeping for most of the journey over the ocean. We will arrive in London around 7:00 a.m. on Sunday. It will be a hour ride by Uber to the hotel where we will drop our luggage off. From there we are planning on walking a few miles to pick up our "hop on hop off" tickets. Of course along the way we will do some sight seeing as we will walk right past Big Bend and Parliament. The afternoon temperature is suppose to be low 60's so it will be a beautiful day. Stay tuned.......

Twas the night before our big trip......

And look who knows something is up.