Trip To London 2

On Saturday, we started our day by taking pictures of the Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, The Parliament, Buckingham Palace, London Eye, Tower of London, Tower Bridge etc, just like any other tourists. The children were grumpy because they couldn't get on the London Eye. We decided not to go on it because the sky was so dark and it was definitely going to rain, further the que was quite long.


London Eye & the dark cloud and the grumpy children...

By the time we reached Buckingham Palace, the dark sky had moved and the children were much more cheerful. I suppose, dark cloudy weather does influence our mood heh..


Buckingham Palace

We missed the changing of the guards at the palace, but Ilham found this solitary guard interesting enough to take pictures of him...



Tower of London and Tower Bridge were just the same. But the children were more interested in running around rather than looking at this old ugly castle :)


Clowning around in front of Tower of London



Since it was still early, we decided to go back to Marble Arch and split our ways temporarily, our friends to their shopping and us, somewhere to sit down....

My dear husband decided to take us to the Pizza Hut where I used to work. That was sweet of him. The place looked different now, even the uniform was different. As I had guessed, there was no familiar faces... Who would want to work here forever? We were all students then, working here only to get some extra money. Still, I was hoping to get some news about this guy, he was the assistant manager then, and had been working at the branch for quite sometime. He helped me and my friend to get the job here. As I recall, he didn't want to go back to Malaysia for some reasons known only to himself. I hope he changed his mind and did go back to his family....

It was certainly nice to be able to show Ilham the place, another facet of London personal only to me. He kept saying "You worked here? As a waitress?" Later, much much later back in Amsterdam he asked, "Did you get a rest when you work?" Funny that he should ask that....



Hmm.....yummy, garlic bread with cheese was my favourite then...


To be continued