London, it's true...it's always raining

After a not too painful flight we have finally landed in London...exit the aircraft, get bags, get in trouble by security...now what?

DAY 1

We found a taxi and were almost confident we had the right address to find David and Josh.

We found them!

There was no time to waste and they already knew the locations for happy hour.  We enjoyed a pitcher of Pimms, learned that you will always get caught in the rain in London (Josh is now a certified weather man) and soaked our livers in large pitchers of more alcohol.  Before we knew it pre drinking had come and gone and we were ready to tear up London (in our dancing shoes of course).  Who would have thought that they already knew the perfect place to go, light up dance floor included!  

Dancing the night away was an understatement.

DAY 2

We decided, after a tough morning of peeling ourselves out of bed, that we would be the ultimate tourists for the day and a red double decker bus was going to be our guide.

Just visiting the Queen

We even convinced David to cross Abbey Road!

DAY 3

So much for waking up early to have tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.  David bought out Harrods, the rest of us were too poor.  More pubs, beer and cider and finally Harry Potter: 7 books in 70 Minutes (Potted Potter).  Josh may have enjoyed Erika's contagious laughter just as much as the show...it really was THAT funny!

A trip to the platform into the world of Harry Potter was the perfect (but not so exciting) wrap up to our day of wishing we were wizards and witches.

We have also coined a new use for the term being narcaleptic, you can you use it whenever you are tired, Erika is always narcaleptic.

Smell ya later Canada

Waiting, waiting, waiting.


The story of airport line ups ( throw in some crying mothers and babies, sore backs and tired eyes).

We're off into the skies, hello London in the morning!

Itinerary Confirmed

The following countries were hand picked by the both of us.  We started off listing places we've always imagined ourselves travelling to...we ended up with a list of over 20 cities (those were only the top picks!).  After many parental suggestions, blog creeping and internet surfing it came down to these 9 cities, all of which are going to be conquered in only 1 month.

London, Barcelona, Valencia, Ibiza, Cinque-Terre, Rome, Santorini, Berlin and Amsterdam.

It took us days to finally set in stone the 9 carefully selected cities, now we had to plan.  We had to be realistic, there was no way we were going to be free spirits and hop on a plane, a train or a bus whenever the time felt right, we had 9 cities to get to, explore, and enjoy, there had to be planning involved.

After a few too many gruelling hours/days of research, phone calls, e-mails and credit card rejection the trip has finally all come together and we are anxiously trying to pass the time of a week before departure.


p.s. the official title of this blog was inspired by Dorothy and is dedicated to our moms.  We love you xoxo