London, London Bridge...

Funny lyrics-I wonder if Fergie knows that it is Tower Bridge that goes down, not London Bridge?

Anyway-We left the kids with Noelle in Cambridge last night so Jason and I could have a night out in London. We took the train in, checked into the hotel, changed clothes and headed out. We had tickets to go see Avenue Q and little time to eat a sit down-so we opted for a quick Asian heat up and a drink at a pub. Going to the pubs on a Friday after work with your mates is a very big deal here in England.

We found a pub across the street from the theatre-most people were standing outside the pub drinking and hanging out-no open container laws here. This weekend is a bank holiday-last one of the summer-so the area was alive and kicking with visitors. There happened to be a rather large group rowdy very drunk men from Hull hanging out as well. Hull is rated the worst place to live in the UK based on crime, education, employment, environment and lifestyle. We had fun watching them chat up the girls and it took about 5 minutes for one to approach me when Jason went to the bar for a 2nd round. Every so often one of them would yell something and they'd all start singing.

After the show-quite funny I must say, we went out to a dance club. Apparently you can reserve a spot ahead of time and then don't have to wait in line. We didn't do that but were early enough it didn't matter. We were also dressed the right way-the door guy took a look at us after we told him we were not on the list and he put us in line, but while we were waiting 2 guys stopped and tried to get in the same way and they were turned away. We stayed until well after 2 am, but my feet were killing me and we were both a bit tired. Most stay out until breakfast.

Jason let me sleep in and he went back to Cambridge to get Noelle and the kids for a day in London. They made it around lunch, so that was the 1st stop. With the kids complaining like always and short time-we felt the best way to see the city was to take an open air bus tour. After spending most the day sightseeing we went to Piccadilly for Noelle to do her last bit of shopping before leaving tomorrow. We sat down for a quick bite to eat before heading home-the only place open was next to a very colorful character.