London-End of June 2013

 

Tom and I went to London for a week the last week in June. We went for the Wimbledon Tennis tournament and to do some sightseeing. Tom travels a lot and earns lot of points. It’s hard that he travels so much but it does allow us to do trips for just us and fun family trips with the kids. We are really lucky that my parents keep the kids for us so we can have this special time together.

Here are some pictures that my mom took during their week with the kids. Mom-Mom, Pops, and Aunt Lis had some fun at some local parks, the pool, and having special treats! Looks like everyone had a blast.

Thanks again Mom and Dad for watching the kids while we went to London.

London pics to follow  after the kids pics!

London’s Calling…..

We took a bike ride around Hyde Park!

We did a Hop On, Hop Off Red Bus tour and then went on the London Eye! We saw ALL of London this way!

In line in the queue for tickets to get into Wimbledon. We waited all day and got in for the evening session on opening day at 5:00. I had strawberries and cream and Tom had a Prim (drink of choice at the tournament). We did see some great tennis including American Sloane Stevens!

The next day we were in line by 7 am and in by 11am.

A rest on Merry Mound (Henan Hill) to watch Serena on the big screen. We saw lots of tennis this day with our grounds pass! Wimbledon is really meant for the fans and just a beautiful venue!!!!

The last day we went we had tickets so we could sleep in and didn’t have to wait in the queue. The queue was very well organized though and made waiting in line easy!

I was able to get get us on Centre Court for FREE and very close to see Roger Federer!!!!! See my baby bump? I was around 15 weeks pregnant when we went!

We enjoyed our 3 full days of tennis!

Our last full day was another day of sightseeing. Here we are at Buckingham palace to see the changing of the guards!

 

After the changing of the guards we met up with our British friends Becca and Martin! So good to see them. I met Becca in high school when she came over here on an exchange student trip. She was at my friend Colleen’s wedding in 1999 and I haven’t seen her since. We connected on Facebook and then were able to meet up in London. We went to lunch, walked around and did some final shopping. So great to see them!

London was a great trip! We did it all!