1st day in London

We arrived in London at 5:30am Monday morning and stepped out into 1 degree weather! What a shock to the system. It definitely woke us up.

After buying an Oyster card with 10 pounds of credit (Kath's instructions), we caught the tube to Green Park Station. We arrived and were thinking 'Where in the world do we meet Katherine?', when all of a sudden we hear 'WOO HOO!' and I thought 'That cannot be an English person!'. It was Kath! And she was with Ben, what a fantastic surprise! We had brekky, went back to their place with Kath commenting all the while that we had SO much stuff. We dumped our stuff and Kath took us on a whirlwind tour of London.

Things we covered included: Westminster Abbey, St Pauls Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace with the changing of the guard, St James' Park, Tower of London, Big Ben, The London Eye... all in a matter of a few hours! We didn't actually go into any of these things we just walked around and saw them.
The weather is so strange here! It was sunny, then all of a sudden it was sleeting (which I thought meant heavy rain but is actually a light hail), then it was sunny again, then snow! How do people dress themselves??

We were so exhausted by 3pm but we didn't nap, we stayed up till about 8pm then crashed till about 8am the next morning. It's the third day now and we are feeling much better but by the afternoon we both still get tired. We're both wanting to start work tomorrow so we'll see how it goes! Photos up soon.