I hope this post finds everyone doing well. We have had yet another great day in London. It is hard to believe the London portion of my trip is just about over! This morning we met with some very very nice architects at the Nightingale Associates here in London. We met with them for about two hours and it was wonderful! They were very interested in Lindsay's research on the multi-bed patient room as well as my research on Post Occupancy Evaluation. They also wanted to know more about the private patient rooms as that seems to be what the UK is moving to. It was great to sit down and really just have an interesting dialog with great folks! They were eager to help us and we have offered to help them in any way possible.
After we finished meeting with them, we did what any two girls in London would want to do-- we went to Harrods! I had decided I wanted to buy something girly and special so bought myself a bottle of perfume. Linds and I both think it smells great so I was excited! After our walk through Harrods.... looking at all the Oscar de la Renta and Gucci, Armani... ah. Amazing. but way way way way way over my head! So after walking some through the store, we headed to find a quick bite to eat. We found a local place called Eat and had sandwiches there. After lunch we came back to the hotel for a little while. (We both accidentally fell asleep.... whoops-- we are worn out!) We woke up about an hour later and headed to go do a little more sightseeing before meeting Erin for dinner. So, we walked about 10 blocks up the road to St. Peter's Cathedral. We walked inside and had a bit of a look around. For me... it seemed so crazy that I was standing in a building that I had only seen in books and pictures in my art and architecture history classes. It was amazing. After that, we decided since it was getting close to when we were to meet Erin at our hotel, we would start walking back. Erin had invited us to her house for dinner, which was so wonderful. So we stopped on our walk back from the church to get a small token of gratitude... a cute little plant, which of course I don't have a picture of!
When Erin got off work, she met us at our hotel, which she goes by on her way home. So we met up with her, got back on the bus and headed over to her very cute little place! We made tacos and ate in her garden. It was very cute and the food was wonderful!! It was great to just sit in her garden and enjoy life and have more girl talk! We left her house about 930 and headed back to the hotel because we have a very early morning. Our flight leaves Heathrow about 7am and since that is about 45 mins from here and they told us to be there 1.5-2 hours early... get the picture. My alarm is set for 330am our time, 10pm EST. Yay.
Here are some pictures from the day!
1. St Peters
2 (and 3)- Harrods!!!
4 and 5- At Erin's house making dinner and eating in her lovely little garden!
More pictures will be posted in the next few days to facebook too because Blogger is not really liking the pictures. So I am going to only put a few on here for the rest of the trip and put most of then on facebook! :)
Love to all and please continue to keep us in your prayers for safe travel as we fly to Amsterdam tomorrow morning and then will catch the Eurail to Deventer and then onto Gronigen in a few days!
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