Sunday, January 22, 2012

The first weekend

Hello everyone! Bryan and I were really busy this weekend and have some pretty sore feet.  Yesterday we walked 8.9 miles and today we walked a mere 7.2 miles.

Yesterday consisted of walking to Regent's park to do one of our first London City walks, thanks a bunch to Micah and Cori Barfield for the lovely gift.

On the way B and I saw some of the fattest pigeons we've ever seen.
Once in the park we first stopped at Queen Mary's garden and saw a ton of dormant roses. The amount of roses in the garden is truly astounding. I'm sure it will be amazing once they come into bloom.  One of the best rose names I saw reminds me of one of my favorite people.
After the rose garden was a huge fountain to commemorate one of the benefactors of the park, Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze (what a name!)
  Along with the planned attractions there were many wonderful dogs and a ton of interesting water foul.


Today we attempted to do the Borough market walk but neglected to find out if the market was open on Sundays.  Luckily for the shop owners the market shuts down on Sundays but unlucky for us after walking two miles just to find out what could have been found out with a bit of research online. Even though the plan was a bust we saw some neat things besides.

We stumbled upon St. Mark's Cathedral.  I think I'll take mom here when she visits.  It's massive and there are improvement works going on on the grounds now so I'm sure it will look better once summer rolls around.

After finding that the market was a no go for the day we wandered back toward our apartment and happened upon "The Monument".
 £3/person and 311 stairs later we were at the top with about twenty other people in a very small space.
The views were good, but not as spectacular as I was hoping for.

On our walk back to the apartment from the monument we passed a building that had the name of my hometown on the front so of course I took a picture.

8 comments:

  1. Yay! I just found the link to your blog on facebook! It will be fun to follow along with your London adventure!! Love, Connie

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    1. Hello Connie, I'm glad to see you are enjoying the adventures. I think we'll have more as we get settled and figure out more about what's going on. Oh and congratulations on winning the co-op drawing competition!

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  2. Yay! That is a lot of walking! Thanks for posting all that. I miss you but it is definitely nice to know how things are.

    <3 Korresia

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    1. Wait, Korresia reminds me of someone else... ;) I wish we could hang out this weekend. Would you be available to facetime soon?

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  3. Also, did my mom and I just post at exactly the same time? I swear I'm a clone and not a daughter. Creepy!

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  4. I will be checking this blog on a regular basis! This is all very interesting! Glad you are enjoying it there! XO

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    1. Hi Aunt Anne, I'm glad people are finding this through facebook. I was afraid I'd be blogging to myself, which I guess would be fine too :) Anyhow, I'm glad the snow is subsiding and the weather is getting back to normal for you. Oh BTW mom has MorMor's accordion for you. Thanks so much for letting us borrow it!

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