Survived 1st Week!!!

We have officially suvived our first week in London.  It was great to get everything that we had air shipped on Friday.  We spent Friday night getting all of that stuff unpacked and organized.  We got up early on Saturday and took the tube to an awesome outdoor market called Burough Market.  It is also the same stop that Ann gets off of for work, so that was a good trial run for her.  It was an easy two tube stop ride.  Anyway, the market was packed and they had every kind of food imagineable.  We tried a ton of different cheeses and some pastries as well as a traditional English Pork Belly sandwich with apple sauce.  That was like biting into Miss Piggy herself!!!!  After that, we ventured over towards Buckingham palace where we showed off our formal invitation to the royal wedding.  I know, you are jealous.  I also made Ann mad because I would not let her buy this rip off union jack flag ornament in the Buckingham Palace gift shop.  Her response to this was asking me if I was going to tell my kids no when they asked to buy a souvenir at Disney World.  I diffused the situation by stopping in the next pub for a pint.  Needless to say, I definitely will be buying a union jack ornament while we are here!!!  The pub we found was a great place called The Orange.  It was a pub house, restaurant, and hotel near Chealsea.  We stayed for a drink and then continued toward our ultimate demise, Peter Jones in Sloane Square, the Macy's of London.  We needed bed sheets and some other stuff that we could only find there.  I hope that was my last trip to that store while in London.  It was 7 floors of pure shopping madness.  There were people everywhere.  It was a pain that only a non shopping person like myself could understand.  The only thing that kept me focused in there was the next pub:)  Anyway, we made it out of Peter Jones alive with not an alarmingly huge armful of goods that we had to transport back to our flat via the tube.  Luckily, they deliver because I would have been hauling a full length mirror through the streets.

Saturday evening, we walked from our flat up towards Notting Hill to find a restaurant.  We discovered this great little wine bar and had a glass of wine there before heading to dinner.  We ended up at a restaurant called Kensington Place.  The food was surprisingly good, but I think that we are beginning to understand that service is not the foremost worry of a business.  After dinner, we walked back down towards High Street Kensington because we had discovered a piano bar earlier in the day.  We got there about 9:30, and this place was already one in one out.  It was well worth the wait though.  This place was classic and even better, it is about 30 seconds from our flat.  We will definitely be back there again.

I guess that is about it.  I am going to enjoy my last week of vacation and I am in charge of planning our first weekend trip for this coming weekend.  We are probably just going to go somewhere in England for a day and night.  We will keep you all posted.

Cheers
Kevin