Heathrow, London

        After a deep breath I realized I was in London.  We lost 5 hours so 11am in London was 6am Atlanta time, so obviously I was a little tired. Haha, We had to get “Underground” passes for the day, it’s like Marta, but a lot cleaner and a lot more everyday people use it.  In Heathrow, London with luggage and all hopped on the “Underground” and headed straight for Big Ben!  The train stations has a surprising number of stairs, so all the luggage had to be carried up each flight of stairs; let’s just say I got a bit of a workout.  As soon as I walked out of the train station I turned to my right and saw a really creepy clown standing at the top of the stairs which was the way I had to go to see Big Ben.  (I’m not scared of clowns, this one was just extremely unexpected scary and in my path.  So… I thought I took some good pictures of the London Eye and Big Ben: 

The London Eye

       The outer facade had such detail that was so ornate, it was incredible to actually see, but to capture in a picture with a normal everyday digital camera is pretty difficult.  We then rolled our way to Westminster Abbey, however not before half the right wheel ripped off of my rolling luggage.  Haha! I started to roll it again (it had a harder inner part of the wheel underneath the rubber portion that was ripped off).  All I could do was laugh when it was making a silly noise as I dragged everything past Westminster Abbey.  

        This was also very beautiful in the way the façade intricately flowed together to construct this amazing church.  I was also lucky enough to hear the Bells play in the short amount of time I was there!!  After that we trudges back to the “Underground” and hopped on to go to the Chunnel station and get lunch.  But not before we snuck into a large red telephone “teley” booth.  Which was conveniently placed for a perfect photo opp!  

        Once at the train station we were able to have a great lunch.  I had a Sicilian sandwich in this cute corner bistro, everything was fresh and smelled wonderful!! After walking around we went through a security checkpoint to be able to go on our “Chunnel,” only after getting my second stamp in my passport.  I was excited to find out my train was on platform 10! I looked for Platform 9 & ¾ but had no luck.  The train was nice lots of legroom and very fast!  And off to FRANCE I go!!