4/23/11

Trip Journal: Paris Update #7

Paris Update (London) #7
Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:51 PM


Dear Friends and Family....

We've gotten a bit behind on these updates -- losing a day every now and then, until we're nearly a week off -- mostly because we've happily crammed as much into these two weeks as we possibly could...;-)

In fact, we've just touched down in Seattle after flying for a total of 14 hours, and it's 5 am Paris time, so I hope you'll bear with us...but we wanted to get another email off to you. The rest of the trip will come to you over the next few days...:-)

This one is for London, and due to our current lack of sleep, we'll let the pictures speak for us -- but there is one story we'd like to tell...

We took a boat trip on the Thames, and as this was what Isa called a "water taxi," they do a safety talk much like the one you get on an airplane. It was just at sunset on a lovely evening, after we'd walked ALL day. It traveled under London Bridge in leisurely fashion, but then was due to speed up significantly until it reached our destination of Canary Wharf for dinner.

You'll have to imagine these safety instructions being given in a VERY dry British accent -- and if there hadn't been so many people laughing around us, I'd have thought we were all just exhausted and punchy...but the man actually got applause when he was finished!

This was the end of his talk..."That thing on the back of the boat is a railing. If we'd wanted to make it a seat, we would have put a cushion on it. The water in the Thames is 40 degrees, which means you have a life expectancy of 4 minutes should you fall in. By the time we've noticed you've fallen in, we're a quarter mile, at least, down the River, and it takes us 3 minutes to turn around. *pause* What I'm saying is...we're not coming back. And if you sit on that rail, you're bloody stupid."

So, this is just to let you know that we weren't bloody stupid...we sat warm and safe in our seats and watched London go by...

More anon...
Cheers! And now, off to sleep...
Much love,
:-)) xx
Susan and Robert




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