We're here!!!!

London here we are!  And yes it is cold, nothing like kids have ever experienced in their lives.  But it's still a great place to be.

Surprisingly enough I didn't have any wine on the journey although I did knock back a Bacardi & Coke, purely as a night cap although I wasn't really sure what time zone I was in so it could have been a morning heart starter....Shaun insists his several scotch and drys were night caps for each time zone however in retrospect the direction we were traveling in meant that it was actually morning times we were flying into!

Cattle class was ok really, kids had enough room to have a bit of a snooze at times.  Ethan did not sleep at all between Hong Kong and London having slept a fair bit on the first leg.  He was most impressed with having his own TV but more impressed that he did not have to share the remote control!  Typical boy!

The queue at Passport Control at Heathrow was long but we got through relatively quickly and straight through customs.  Got on the Hotel Hoppa bus to the Novotel Heathrow Hotel without a hitch.  Freshened up and went downstairs for dinner however as Ethan and I kept falling asleep at the table we opted to have the meals bought up to the room.  Linzi and Shaun enjoyed their meals, apparently very nice food here.  I have a vague recollection of sleep eating a bit of a BLT but Ethan was non compus and went without.  Quite amusing though at 4:30am when he woke up and the first words out of his mouth were a complaint about not being fed his dinner.

Anyway, off to work out how to get to Central London for a bit of sight seeing before we head out to our next hotel near Gatwick for an early morning flight to Malta.  Now what's the odds that none of us will want to be out of bed this early tomorrow when we HAVE to be.