Day 2 - the rush to the London Eye

So after church, we parted ways with Karen and went to Leicester Square. We were going to meet up with Karen at Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Beckenham at 4pm.

Since there are no shows on Sundays, we went to an internet cafe to book tickets for the London Eye, and do some banking.

After lots of walking and taking pictures and people-watching, we started making our way back to Beckenham. At Victoria Station we realised that we were never going to make it back by 4pm so phoned Karen to give her new times.

I won't bore you with another one of those waiting-for-the-train pictures because that's what happened then and of course, Dion has LOTS of pics of the back of me, rushing off somewhere :)

Got back to Beckenham, had a delicious satay burger with Karen and Lara (one of Karen's housemates) and rushed home to pack.

We had to say our goodbyes while the cabbie was waiting (on the bright side, no chance of long, drawn-out farewells) and then rush to the station, rush to Travelodge in Liverpool Street, all with those bags that, even though were by now slightly lighter (because my method of baggage control is throwing away my clothes - yes, really), felt GINORMOUS on the underground and along the streets.

We dropped the bags and rushed straight out to the underground station again where we travelled to Tower Bridge. We were SO late as they say you have to be there 30 minutes before your booked time. Our time was 7.30pm and we only got there at 7.40pm but stormed into the office where a nice man said that we could still go.

As we were rushing there, I was thinking, "if we just THROW £23 (R370) down the drain, I'm going to be SO cross".

So the first few minutes were spent calming down from the SPRINT and then we started taking some gorgeous pictures.

This is one of my favourite pictures of the London Eye

I took this one - I feel like a "real" photographer when I take pics like this


Now this amazed me - look how dirty it is. Not a bin in sight, so people just leave their rubbish wherever they want


Afterwards, took some more pics and then went back to Liverpool Street. Had a quick burger at McDonalds and then back to the Travelodge where I TOTALLY collapsed with a headache, sore body and sore feet.

And so we finally realised what everyone else tried to tell us - that we were trying to pack in too much. So we made a new rule - only one or two activities every day because we are not as young as we used to be!!!