Stranded in a strange land where people pronounce words in a strangely straight forward and entirely unsophisticated way and where you can get much more ice cream for less money

So we are now sitting in the cheese steak airport next to ol' Benny.  We will be here a while longer due to terrorist actions which have caused our plane to encounter mechanical issues.  This is after our flight was already delayed. In fact, our flight from London was delayed an hour and half.  This one was first delayed a half hour.........and now they've added on another hour-ish time period.  How the terrorists have been busy today!

So here we are again reliving last week's experience in a reverse fashion.  Since nothing that eventful has happened today.......perhaps we will just post some pictures that didn't make the cut.  That would be more interesting then the ramblings of a demented blogger, yes?

These first few pictures are from Hyde Park, which is right by Royal Albert Hall.  So we explored a little bit of it before watching Mahler's 8th, but we got no where near exploring all of it's 800 acres in the period of less then an hour.

So now some random shots.........  yes nice bridge.  They just don't do them like this back home.......how darn'd inconvenient.

Ah yes.......a goofy looking guy standing next to a stunningly dressed guard!

And here we go folks!  If you wondered what the British government does with it's tax payer's dollars.........this kinda the generally thing........make really big things that make people feel better about the place.....  Hence: the Eye of London!  A big mother of a ferris wheel.  Each of those little seating areas can hold somewhere around 10 people.  It's quite a sight. 

Hey remember when America had these?  Wasn't that long ago.....