Loving London

Well, here we are! I can't believe we're actually visiting with Abbey here at her flat in London!
Emelia's had the best day of her life so far I think...she's seen about 100 red double-decker buses! Everytime we se one (which is literally about every 10 steps) she sucks in her breath & loudly declares "There's another one Mommy! I TOLD you it was coming!" Like I haven't see one before! Yesterday was her first experience riding one & here into her second day the joy still hasn't worn off. She's done AMAZINGLY well adjusting to the time difference. Today we went on a bus tour of London & she was THRILLED to ride on the top of the bus that didn't have a roof. Then as a surprise Abbey took us to a to store that is 5 stories high! (Enough said!) We did however see the second most wonderful thing in her life....one of her great loves in life are pirates. Well, after lunch we had to walk past the toy store again & lo & be hold there was an HONEST TO GOODNESS PIRATE standing right there on the sidewalk! Her eyes got as big as saucers & she stopped dead in the midst of everyone! As a little side note: Mommy said I'd buy her a special treat from the toy store thinking we'd get something nice....nope, we walked out with a plastic whale & a shark. Anyways, back to the pirate, as she's standing there with her mouth open she holds up the shark & the whale and the pirate starts talking to her! You would have thought you'd have given her gold! As we started walking away, I luckily remembered I needed to get a picture of her & the pirate. He's saying "ARRRR" while she has a HUGE smile on her face. A pure kids moment! Well, the rest of the day she was telling me " told you pirates are nice!"

Well, enough for now. Will write more tomorrow.