The Gasbarro family had what most people would call an nontraditional Christmas this year. It was filled with hotels, palaces, kings and queens. If you couldn't tell from the title, we went to London this year. We figured this was our last year to get away with not being bogged down with helping Santa with gift lists, decorating the tree or making Christmas cookies before Adelaide would notice. We even forgot to send out Christmas cards this year. That may be a bit of a white lie, I just really didn't feel like it so if you didn't get a card it isn't because you fell off of my list, it's because I was lazy. So our trip was a little rocky in trying to get to London. We were supposed to leave Friday after work, but after some time in the Crown Room we were sent home without our luggage for a flight in the morning. Don't worry, I'll get to the luggage story later on in the post. So Saturday morning we tried again and were successful. The weather all over the East was a mess that day so we had to take an early flight to Atlanta in order to make sure we caught our flight to London. This meant many hours in the Atlanta airport and no nappy for the Tootie Girl. We were originally supposed to fly into Heathrow, but there were no seats available so we ended up in First Class to Gatwick (much further out of the city than Heathrow). As soon as we got up in the air Adelaide decided that would be the right time to throw up all over me. Of course she had a change of clean clothes, but I didn't. Not that that really mattered since she threw up again an hour later. So there we were in First Class covered in throw up, no more clean clothes and an 8 hours to go. We MADE IT! A long cab ride and crying baby later, there were we were, just steps from Buckingham Palace. Mom and Russ were staying down the street at the Ritz, while Grant, Adelaide and I were at the The Park Lane Sheraton. Notice I said WE made it, not our suitcases. We didn't see our suitcases until I think Wednesday, minus the car seat, which we was never found. Poor Russ didn't get his clothing until Saturday! I can't tell you how much time I spent agonizing over buying new jeans, because I couldn't find any that weren't the skinny legs and then when I finally did they were $129. So it really didn't end up mattering since I had to buy new clothes when I got to London. Not an easy task when it's snowing outside, days before Christmas and Europeans are much smaller than I am. Putting the travel woes behind us, we had a great time. We will definitely have to go back, because there is a lot that we didn't get to see or do. There was record breaking lows while we were there, so we tried to get indoors before the temperature dropped too much. There were so many pictures from the week that I thought it would be easier to give you the link to my shutterfly share site to explore as many as you would like.
http://www.gasbarrosweare.shutterfly.com/
Formal tea in the Palm Room, we weren't the crowd favorite with Adelaide puking all over the place. Too many salmon finger sandwiches I guess.
Russ's favorite movie coming to life, "look kids, BIG BEN"
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