Our 1st Anniversary

Well I can't believe it but Sam and I have been married for one whole year! It has been amazing! Nothing like spending everyday with your best friend. So to celebrate we went into London for the weekend. Its was absolutely amazing! And I have pictures to share...finally! We took the train into London and then rode the underground or "tube" into the city where our hotel and theatre was. What an experience that was! I loved the train ride from Cambridge into London...we got to see a lot of the countryside and it is beautiful. But the underground...not such a fan. I felt like a sardine...actually worse than that. We were crammed into this tube with no AC. I just kept thinking, "what if there was an emergency and we need to evacuate, how in the world are we going to get out?" cause you look out the window and the cement wall of the subway was inches from the window (no way you could get out if the door opened). Lets just say it was the longest 6 minute ride of my life. But we arrived at our very chique (sp?) hotel...tiny little room but very modern looking. And it was so nice to have a normal bed to sleep on and a "big" or should I just say normal size shower to shower in. Today we realized that we have been homeless and living in hotels for the last month...insane! But anyways, back to London. Once we dropped off our bags in our room, we decided to walk around some and ended up doing lots of site seeing by ourselves. We walked to almost all the big sites; Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster Abbey, London's Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace and lots of churches. We then headed back to our room to get ready for our big date night. :) We got all dressed up and headed off to see "The Phantom of the Opera". It was absolutely spectacular! I loved it! I think Sam even enjoyed it. ;) After the show we went out to dinner at a place called Gaucho Grill, which was recommended by our hotel. We showed up and I do have to say I was kinda worried. We could hear the thumping but techno music before we even went in. We got to our table and were thinking about leaving because it was so loud..we couldn't hear each other talk. The atmosphere was really romantic; low lights and candles on the tables but the music was just so loud. But we decided to stick it out and are SO glad we did. We had the, i mean THE best steak of our lives. It was incredible! It was like melt in your mouth good. Totally worth putting up with the music. We will definitely be going back! Then we walked through downtown for a bit, so many people though. Its kinda crazy. We got some ice cream though and just headed back to our room. I don't know when it happened, but we are officially old. It was 11 o'clock and we were pooped. :) Not the big go outers like we used to be. :)

On Sunday we did the tourist thing and rode on the double decker bus tour. So worth it! Even though we had walked on our own to most of the big sites on Saturday, we learned so much from just riding on the bus. We had a live tour guide that told us a lot about the history behind things and just all the little tid bits of info about stuff. We got to see all of London, places that we wouldn't have even thought to go to. The way the bus tour works is you can get off and on as much as you like, if you'd like to see each place. But we decided to stay on the bus for the whole tour route (to make sure we didn't miss anything) and then decide where we mind want to get off at to just walk around. So we were on the bus for a good 2 1/2 hours. A great tour! We definitely would recommend it to anyone who hasn't been to London before. So moms and dads...guess what you guys get to do when you come visit?! :)

But enough writing...time to finally see some pics. Enjoy!

About to board the train from Cambridge to London

Sam's excited to go to London

Her Majesty's Theatre...where we saw "The Phantom of the Opera"

Big Ben and Parliament

Parliament

Westminster Abbey

The side of Westminster Abbey

The walk to Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace


Palace Guard

Palace Front Gardens

So stinkin excited to see the show!

A toast to our first year...

On the double decker bus

Parliament

The Eye of London

Tower Bridge

The church where Princess Diana got married

Brides' Chapel: reason why wedding cakes are layered

Watching the filming of the new Harry Potter movie
A shopper's dream...Oxford and Regent Street

And down came the rain...
Where we had dinner for our anniversary

Our computer is being really slow right now, so no more pics. But I posted most of them on facebook, so you can check them out there.

We get our house tomorrow! Yay! So i'll probably be busy the next few days setting up house (finally!) but i'll try to post again soon. We won't have internet in our house for a few weeks (i won't even go there....it makes me very angry) but I'll do what I can to keep everyone updated.