Saturday night around 5:30 we touched ground in Texas after 15 days of being gone. The first thing I noticed as we left the airport was how hot it is here in Texas. After 2 weeks of wearing a jacket it was a definite change for me.
The rest of our trip to London went really well. Although there wasn't much "Olympic activity" involved we certainly didn't lack for things to do. Infact, looking back there was probably only one afternoon that we could have squeezed in an event. As it turned out getting tickets to events was much more difficult than we realized it would be. Everything had to be done on-line...even getting tickets to Olympic Park. There was a lot of criticism in the British news and on their BBC stations. So, we did tourist stuff...and that was great because everyone else was trying to get into Olympic events.
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We took a bus tour of London, shopped on Regent St., saw the Tower of London, toured Buckingham Palace (which I had never gotten to do in all the times I've been to London), did a tour of the Harry Potter studio, went to Warwick Castle, Stratford-on-the Avon and Oxford. We shopped a Harrod's and Hamley's. For those who don't know Hamley's is the largest toy store in the world (supposedly). It does have 7 floors which, trust me, Callie and Caleb found something on every floor that they wanted! We spent an afternoon at Hyde Park where they had giant screens (4 of them) set up to watch the events with games for the kids to play...us and about 3000 Brits. Tried to get "USA...USA...USA chant started at a English Pub as we ate dinner and watched the games..unfortunately we were the only Americans in there...didn't go over very well. Roy got to do some pin trading and all of us got into getting the pins of different sports.
Caleb ended up with the most...most coveted was the NBC Olympic pin that a guy gave him while we were riding the tube.
Roy felt much better this last week than he did in Russia. He still didn't have much energy, so he would spend a half day with us and then go back to the hotel and rest. That worked out good because there were things he really wasn't interested in seeing. He had either already been there or wasn't interested to begin with...ie. Harry Potter Studios. Our hotel room overlooked Victoria Station which made it great to be able to get back to get him for dinner or him to go back from where ever we were. Buckingham Palace was a half mile from us.
I realize how many prayers were said over the last 3 weeks...a week before we left praying he would feel like going and 2 weeks while we were there. No one can truly understand how much those prayers meant to us. I am so thankful to all our friends and to the Lord for seeing us through the journey we were on.
Our journey continues at the end of the month when we go back to M.D. Anderson for a PETSCAN and another endoscopy...this will determine what happens next. Please continue to pray that both of these test come back negative.
God is in control and holding our hand
Linda
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