About 9:30 AM on Wednesday, June 11th, we picked up Teresa and Steve at their house, driving our old 2009 CR-V
which we'd have to let sit outside in the Minneapolis EZ-Air Park off-site parking lot for the 18 days we'd be gone.
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Around 1:00, our flight to Boston for our 2 hour layover departed. From Boston, around
7:00 PM, we headed on to London, Heathrow, where we arrived a little over 6 hours later (after a surprisingly good airline
dinner of chicken on rice). Due to time zone differences, we were on the ground in
London before 7 AM on June 12th! We were beginning our second day of vacation.
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We took an Uber from the airport to the Leonardo Hotel London Heathrow Airport where we checked in, but, obviously, our rooms wouldn't
be ready until much later in the day, probably around 3:00 PM. So, after relaxing in the hotel
lobby for just a short while and using the lobby bathrooms to get cleaned up a bit, we headed outside to
await an Uber to begin our first day in London. It arrived around 8:45.
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It was not the best time to be driving through London. And we had quite a long drive
from our hotel near the airport to downtown London. It was around 10:15 when we arrived at the main entrance to the...
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...British Museum! As it turned out, you needed to get tickets to get in using this entrance. (Tickets are free. They're used to
control the number of people in the museum at any given time, but we were told we could get in through a rear entrance.) So off
we went on a rather long walk half way around this giant building.
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When we got around to the back, we saw this. We got in line, only to quickly find out this line was for tour groups, and we could
proceed directly to the rear entrance. Whew!
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This was the first picture I took in the museum. Entitled "The 9 Planets," it's from 13th century India and represents
nine gods and demons from Indian astrology, astronomy, and mythology. Click here to see more
pictures from the museum.
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After leaving the museum, we were all quite hungry. We were hoping to get to Chinatown for a good Chinese meal, but as we were
looking for it, we came across this place, Chang's Noodle. So we popped in for
some hand-pulled noodles; I had a bowl of ็่้บต which was okay (the beef was
sliced real thin, like in Vietnamese pho, which I found weird), and Mei-O had bowl of this
(with lamb!) which, while the noodles were good, the meat and soup weren't. But at least we were now fed so we could continue
on our quest.
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