CopperDays and the 5 Dwarfs

While it was an admirable goal to try and do something cool on our first day - it kinda didn't end up happening. We left our hotel yesterday afternoon with the intent of going to the London Eye to get a lay of the land, look at something that doesn't require a lot of concentration and accomplish a cool London thing on our first day. Wellllll - we successfully and fairly easily Tubed it up and got over to the Jubilee Gardens and London Eye but that was about it. At that time the dwarfs accompanying our journery were Sneezy (Blaine is pretending he's not sick), Happy (LONDON BABY!), and Sleepy. We got lost, walked in a couple of circles, found Dopey on the way, and finally found this GINORMOUS Ferris Wheel with pods that give great London views.

Yeah! We're so excited; we're so willing, we're so ready we're so...not going on that thing. The line was approximately 4 hours long. I've read that Brits see a queue and join it but I had never seen it in action. At that point we pulled out a map and using Dopey's advice decided to walk to the Millenium bridge (which is about 3 - 5 miles away; Dopey can't read maps). It started raining on the walk and while we found this super cool book fair (CHEAP books and cool titles; a little piece of Heaven) we got hungry, found Grumpy, re-read the map to find out we were REALLY far away and went looking for dinner and home. We got fish and chips at the Fishcoteque (seriously) which were good and came back. We rested for a bit and then went out on the night version of our own Tower Bridge tour that Darren's already posted about. :)