London Day 1 Christmas Eve/Day

[aimeekitty]

Christmas Eve,

On the way to work:


Gertie, one of the director's dogs. She likes being Santa! She's such a happy dog.


Flew out of LA in the evening:


Made it to London on Christmas morning
ZOMG. irregularly shaped fields!


We got settled in our BnB near Victoria Sta, took a shower, changed and then headed to the Ritz by way of Buckingham Palace. I love initials.




The first of many cupids on our trip. LOVE LOVE.


I love the lion/unicorn heraldry on everything. Mitch is really interested in heraldry actually.








The weather was pretty fabulous... and it held for our trip. Never rained, and was sunny a lot of days. Very cold, though.








We strolled through Green Park with the bare trees playing against the sky.
Then to the Ritz for high tea. The Ritz was was a profusion of gold, pink and red. WONDERFUL. Yummy yummy (and the tea was all you could drink/eat, which was great cause nothing is friggin open on Christmas Day and this would be all we'd eat!) I couldn't take pictures of our tea, but you know. :)


Where we actually had tea.
We had the best macaron I've ever had... it was raspberry cookie part, with white chocolate filling and a slice of milk chocolate in it, too. Also, really great egg salad sandwich (one of my faves.) We both Royal tea and Ceylon.




The ladies loo. XD


Outside the Ritz:


We walked the other way around Green Park and through Wellington Arch, which was pretty amazing. Boudicca at the top was pretty imposing. I'd be scared of her.
While I was staring at her at the top of the arch, I backed into some horse poop. awesome! Just like home! (Charleston).

We aimed to save money on our hotel, so we stayed in a pretty tiny room, but really, we spent 90% of our awake time being tourists, so it was fine.
We went back to our room to watch the Christmas Doctor Who special and then went to bed early. :)
I was pretty nerdily excited to see the special on an actual TV in London, the day it aired. I punched Mitch when the logo came on and the Doctor came out of the TARDIS. LOL.
Loved Miss Hartigan's red dress (stunning!).

Comments

[melnay13.livejournal.com]

It looks beautiful:) Gosh, I hope I get to go one day.

On a nerdier note: Were you psyched to get to see the special the day it aired?

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

totally psyched. I totally punched mitch when the logo came on.

[keita-yuki.livejournal.com]

X3 you need to draw a silly lil comic on that for all of us deprived of that sight.

[praedestinatio.livejournal.com]

Oooh, man I really wanna go back to England!
How exciting!

[fanbot.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing! *hugs*

[starlollie.livejournal.com]

I think Im scared of large angel statues ever since that Dr Who episode "Blink".

[poisonedwriter.livejournal.com]

Those pictures are beautiful! I can't wait to see all this for myself. ^__^

[twjudy.livejournal.com]

I may or may not be making hte red dress for the con >_

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

my dahrink, I am sending you an extra special email XD right now

[sulcatas.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! :)

[cunien.livejournal.com]

You were in London??? On Christmas day?!? Don't you know that's when everybody clears out - that's when all them aliens appear!
x.

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

yup! we got lucky! no rain and no aliens!

[sugercat.livejournal.com]

Looks like you had fun on your trip =3

[rory-aka-spike.livejournal.com]

Im glad the weather held for you, even if cold, snowed here yesterday and is even colder now. Its funny seeing pics of things I can see everyday, but nice.... living in London you miss the beauty of things as they become the norm and you just walk by without seeing. I look forward to seeing more of your pics :O)

[mandypandys.livejournal.com]

I believe they're called 'cherubim', not 'cupids', but yeah, hand them a little bow and quiver and that's exactly what they'd look like.

The Lion and Unicorn imagery is classic; it reminds me of that Gargoyles episode "M.I.A". Did you also see a great deal of Griffin imagery while in London?

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

we saw lots of fun creatures. I like looking for them. They had winged seahorses on one of the buildings (I believe it was for the admiralty (the navy) but I didn't stop to check.)

[post-hummus.livejournal.com]

The lion and unicorn heraldry design is gorgeous! So are the other statues, very beautiful. Can't wait to see your other photos.

I hope you feel better soon, at least you weren't sick during your trip?

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

yes, it was good I didnt get sick till I got back! sadly though I have a lot of work to do and it's hard for me to concentrate. *_*

[malicious-alice.livejournal.com]

Internet high five for you, for helping the English Economy :D

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

haha, yes we did.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Great pics! And how fun to watch Dr. Who in London on TV! :-)

[supinternets.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a wonderful time!

[fairyfloss-love.livejournal.com]

Awww, such cool pictures!
I have been to the UK three times and I have yet to catch a Doctor Who episode live on Uk telly ... *sobs*

[etherealtb.livejournal.com]

Wow. Nice pics. I need to get a good camera like that - that takes pics even of city lights from a plane!

BTW, was your hubby ever mistaken for a native Brit? He sure looks like he belongs there!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Love that London stonework. ^_^

[dlgr.livejournal.com]

yeah I completely forgot about the special and watched it a week later...aaops. XD;;;;!!

[kittytreats.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, you were spoiled! The Ritz looks beautiful! XD

[jinyo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing your pics!
How lucky for you that the weather was clear.

When I was watching the Who xmas special, I wondered if you had gotten to see it "live." How cool that you did!

[hazelbeth.livejournal.com]

ohhh how exciting! I want to go to London! Oh, it's nice to know I am not the only one who would take a picture in the loo... tee hee.

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

it's remarkable and I'm unclassy, so there you go!

[slai.livejournal.com]

Hi Aimee,

Wow 8D! Thanks for sharing your pictures! London looks AWESOME! I'm so jealous of the palace pictures and that tea place! I guess London would be the place for great tea ^^;!