London

We arrived safely on Sun. and are having a fine time in London. Paul's cousin Julie and her husband Steve are great hosts. Yesterday we saw Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Trafalger Square, and Big Ben. We spent a couple hours in the Imperial War Museum, then met Julie and Steve for dinner at their favorite Indian restaurant in Covent Garden. Since we're spending most of our times in tourist areas there are crowds everywhere we go. Probably two-thirds of the snatches of conversation I hear as we pass by people on the street are in foreign languages.

Scott isn't feeling too well so we're starting our day out slowly today, trying to determine if it's jet lag or some kind of bug he picked up. If he's up to it our plan is to buy tickets for a multi-stop tour bus where you can get on and off all day. We'll see more sights.

The weather has been lovely, mid-70s and sunny. Julie and Steve have a gorgeous, if miniature by American standards, back yard, and we've been sitting out there mornings for breakfast. We'll try to start taking pictures, but until this morning we hadn't been able to find our camera in our nine suitcases.