Day 19 (London day 1)

The girls and I did this leg of the trip alone, three days in London just the four of us.....rest have all ventured home on different flights in different directions. We arrived at 06am at Heathrow terminal and then went in search of "hotel by bus" the people who would transfer us to our hotel. Park Plaza County Hall, gorgeous hotel and in an awesome location so central to everything - walking distance to Big Ben, London Eye, Thames River, London Aquarium and Waterloo underground tube station. Sandy I can honestly recommend this hotel to you for your clients -amazing!!!!! We checked in went for breakfast and since our body clocks were still on USA time and it was only midnight and we were totally shattered decided to go and have an hour or two sleep before we venture out in to the freezing city, we got up after 3ish (few hours more than we expected) and got tickets with "Big Bus Tours" its a hop on hop off system with live commentory. We jumped on and rode for about 1 1/2 hours seeing the sights, tourist attractions and getting familiar with the city.  We were expecting to jump off back at the stop at the hotel BUT low & behold if the damn bus did not dump us off at Baker Street stating last stop. OMG now to navigate our way home - this city is so damn huge, we found our way to the Baker Street underground, found out we need the Jubilee line and to get off at Waterloo, what an introduction to London.....holy cow!!!!!! We were meeting Gilly at 18h00 and were now running late, we got out of Waterloo station and it was pitch dark, we had no idea if our hotel was left or was it right - the maps were not helping.....WTF tired + lost + late + exhaused and did I mention we were tired!!!!!!!  Gilly to the rescue - she walked all the way to the hotel and when she found out we were lost told us to stay put and she found us...YAY for Gillie.  We then jumped back on the underground and went to Hyde Park where they were having the last night of the Winter Wonderland.....lights, stalls of food from every country, BIG fun fair, shopping, Mull Wine of which Gilly and I dived in - YUM it is like Gluvine - definitely needed to calm the nerves and to warm us up.
Dived into bed at 22h00.  Need to be up early tomorrow we have a full day planned.