Day Six: Dublin to London!

All that consisted of our day in Dublin was to wake up, get ready and head in the taxi for the airport. We set a wake up call for 8 but ignored it and didn't get up until about 9 and our taxi picked us up at 10. The front desk told us that if we needed to be to the airport by 10:45am we needed to leave at 10am...but there was absolutely no traffic so we got there in about 20 min so we had plenty of time at the airport before our flight to London at 12:45. The moment we walked into the airport was the first time it really felt like Christmas to me. We walked in to a big band playing Christmas music and lots of trees and lights all over. It was lovely! We got all checked through, ate some breakfast, found a snowman thing to take a picture with and hopped on our plane.

The flight was very short, only about 55 minutes so we got to Heathrow, waited for our luggage and hopped in a taxi to take us to our hotel. It took about 45 minutes to get to our hotel from the airport and by the time that we got here and got everything settled we were ready to head out and find some dinner in London. Our room is very fun. It's a little apartment but just one room. It has a bed for mom and dad, a pull out bed for me and Ally that was a couch, a table and chairs, a mini kitchen and a bathroom. They use their space here very wisely because there is JUST enough room to walk around everywhere haha.

We headed out to find a pub called The Swan that our taxi driver had mentioned but half way we decided it was farther than we wanted to go, especially since it was cold, windy and pouring down rain. So we turned down another street to find a nice little british pub that had very good food, beer for the parents and a nice little hot cider for me. After that we headed on back to the room and went into some of the little shops along the way. The area our hotel is in is right next to Notting Hill area and Hyde Park so there is a lot to see!

After dinner we came back to the room to hang out and wait for Ally to show up. I stayed in the room and mom and dad went to the store to get orange juice and champagne to make mimosas! :) They got back, Ally made it and we went out bowling! I was TERRIBLE!! But...it was a lot of fun and a fun little bar and bowling alley!