This was our last true day of vacation. We'll spend all day tomorrow (from @ 2:00 AM PDT until 8:00 PM PDT) enroute from London to Portland. Oh, how I'm not looking forward to that!
Today, however, we flew from Paris to London and arrived @ 11:00 AM. It took us longer to get from Heathrow to our hotel than it did to fly from Paris to London (@ 2 hours via the Tube). Tomorrow morning we'll take a taxi from our hotel to Paddington Station where we can catch an express train to Heathrow. That should cut our transit time to @ 40 minutes.
We spent the afternoon at the British Museum amongst Egyptian pharoahs and mummies and Greek gods and goddesses. Although we saw a huge statue of Rameses II, 3 rooms of mummies, and pieces from the Parthenon, the most impressive thing was seeing the original Rosetta Stone. We also spent an hour or so at the British Library, where they have one of the original Magna Carta manuscripts, as well as some of Shakespeare's handwritten plays.
Dinner was at a typical English pub down the street from our hotel. Although this has been a wonderful trip, both Rich and I are ready to come home (although not quite ready to go back to work)!
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