'Park-ing'

Lriss and I have been checking out some of the local parks. It is quite ridiculous how green everything is. My highlight has of course been the squirrels. It's funny how something so common to the English gives me so much joy! Imagine getting excited over the spotting of a possum.

We went and explored Hyde Park and Richmond Park. Richmond park is like country England, only in the middle of london. Morgan tested the patience of some of the local deer, and we also witnessed the resurection of a crazy white deer, who must have been the king of the bunch. He looked to be injured as we approached with concern, and was left isolated as all of the other deer ran as we approached. Then, when we weren't too far from him, he suddenly sprung to life and proceeded to spring around in a quad legged jumping pattern. Once he started, all the other deer filed in behind him and followed him off far into the field. Crazy.

See our park photos!

First weeks in London

We've arrived! When we hit the ground in heathrow, we were understandably tired as it would of been the equivalent of 2am in the morning or something like that even though all clocks were insisting that it was only 4pm. We took the heathrow express into Paddington station and lagged all our gear what seemed like ages up the road until we stumbled across our hostel. It was a far cry from the 5 or so star hotel we had stayed in the night before at Kuala Lumpur airport. The stairs in the place were pretty much vertical, we may have well just been climbing up a pole.

The next morning we awoke to a beautiful sunny day! Our first views of London in the day were down the road, looking out on hyde park. We had a stroll through to the west end and took in some of the sights. We put some photos up of our first days in London, including one's from steve's birthday.

Here's some photos!