In London with Jessie

I am here to report that although the flight back to London from Boston is a lot shorter, that also means that you have a lot less time for sleeping. So, haggard and sleep deprived, we stumbled through customs and onto the Gatwick Express. Jim met us at the train station and when we got home we lasted about two hours before we had to take a nap. Jet lag is a horrible, horrible monster.

After dragging ourselves out of our naps, we managed to motivate to go to a pub near our house--The Stag. We decided to keep sleeping once we got there:


And then we went back home and attempted to watch a movie, but mostly watched really bad reality TV. PEACE! (to be honest, Jim really tried to get us to watch a movie, but we had the jet lag...and it just wasn't working)


There were several things that made Jessie's visit to London less than ideal. First, jet lag. Second, torrential rain for pretty much the whole four days she was here. And finally, Evie got an ear infection. Despite that, we had a lot of fun because it doesn't really take much to amuse us.


On one of the less rainy days, we went to Covent Garden and I took Jessie to World Food Cafe, a vegetarian restaurant serving....world foods! We had quite a spread.


I don't have all the pictures yet, but on Jessie's last night in town we got a babysitter and headed to Primrose Hill. Jim insisted that we drink 'large' wines instead of 'small wines' and that lead to our posing for celebrity-style mug shots (taken by us and not the police) and generally being loud and silly.




We also apparently ate dessert and were so impressed with ourselves that we took a picture of the end result:

Anyway, it was a brief, but happy visit with Jessie in London. Next time we hope the whole passe can make it!