If only someone had a pedometer

Wish one of us had carried a pedometer so my friends and I could have seen how many miles we logged in London yesterday and the day before. The rain stopped around 9 a.m. yesterday, and the sun came out and gave us yet another beautiful day. We logged some time in Chiswick before heading into the crowds to the Portobello Road Market. I just love it there. So many people speaking so many languages (lots of German and Italian and French because the pound is so weak right now) and people selling everything under the sun.

Then we made our way back through the crowds and hopped on the 94 bus until we spotted a Zara. This is a Spanish chain where one of my girlfriends shopped a lot for her kids when we all lived in Duesseldorf, so she wanted to hit it while she was here. Her children will be looking smart when she returns.

Our travels then took us down Bond Street (think 5th Avenue) where we looked in store fronts of all the high end shops. Oddly enough, the street full of luxury goods was not all that crowded. We landed at Fortnum and Mason (one of the grandaddy department stores here) to have high tea. Yum! We wandered into Piccadilly Circus and a huge tourist shop to get a couple of last minute gifts for folks back home (one of my friends has three kids and the other has four), then on to China town for a bit of Dim Sum before heading home. For whatever reason, the 94 bus that brings us back out to Chiswick gets a little iffy on Saturday nights, so after waiting 20 minutes, we decided to default to the tube.

Took my friends to the airport this morning and am absolutely worn out for all the best reasons. Skip and Maddie had a big day yesterday which included a Fulham FC game plus Maddie eating at both McDonald's AND Burger King before the day was out. She was living large.

We are having another beautiful day today. It's like the run we had when Vern and Beth were visiting. Just fantastic. Skip and Maddie and I packed a picnic lunch and took it out to our corner park where Maddie and Skip practiced a little cricket. Now Maddie is battling a slight heat rash which she has never had before because it's never hot enough on the playground here to actually sweat!