Our First Day!

Well we finally made it here and we had a wonderful day with Ms. Emme Cake! She showed us around her town and we had a wonderful time.

To start off the day we went to our Bed and Breakfast, The Barclay House.
Its a quaint little place, but its just enough room for all 4 of us. Tomorrow we will get a traditional English breakfast served to us by the owners of the house. I'll update pictures hopefully soon of the B&B.

Then Emme took us to this cute little restaurant called The Stock Pot. We each fueled up for our day and headed out. The weather here is kind of nasty so we were bundled up and prepared to walk thru the wind and the drizzle. We set out on our first stop for the day Borough Market. If you love food, this is the place to go. It is a foodie Mecca, filled with every type of indgredient, specialty food, and local food you can imagine. It's all there. The hustle and bustle of the vendors and the shoppers is a lot to soak in, but its a blast once you get used to it.

We then went and saw Big Ben, Parliament and a tiny view of the London Eye. On our way back we stopped by an amazing cupcake place called Hummingbird. Oh my word, I had a nutella cupcake, and emme and mom had carrot cake. They were awesome! Then we decided to duck into Harrods because it was on my dad's list of sights to see :). He's such a funny man!

Next Emme took us to her cute apartment to gather her things and then we came back to the part of town that our B&B is in. We decided to eat close to home tonight because we were sooo tired from the day. So we ate at this fantastic Vietnamese place and all of us had Pho (its like a Vietnamese noodle soup, amazing!). Then we came back to our place of residence for the next 5 days and we're about to crash. We're pretty tired, but hopefully we'll be able to get going early tomorrow on a bus tour and see some museums!!

Cheerio!