"That's not yogurt"

At the end of the day, do you ever look back and can't quite remember how it started? We are day 5 into our 5 week 'odyssey' and our memories are failing us already! "What did we do again?" (That can't be a good sign.)

Have you seen the movie 'Notting Hill'? We took a stroll through the neighborhood featured in the film and wandered down the famous Portobello Road along with 'Our Germans'. What a collection; a shop with a gazillion old sewing machines, antique silver services, crepes, .... the list goes on. Dave stopped to look at the old cameras and Drew had his heart set on a crepe. Daniel just wants to hurry to

whatever store sells England's World Cup jerseys - enough already...

Lunch and the obligatory Big Ben photo. You know Big Ben is actually the name of the bell, not the name of the clock? A little trivia there. We went to the Churchill War Rooms; second time for me but just as interesting as when I went with my sister. When WWII ended, everyone working underground in the bunkers, straightened their desks, turned out the lights and went home. Everything (pretty much) is just as they left it in the War Cabinet Rooms. There's a WC with an 'ENGAGED' sign on the door. No one working there knew it was actually a room where Churchill had a direct line to President Roosevelt. He probably took a magazine with him when he went in.

We wound our way down to Harrod's which Qatar recently bought from the Al Fayed family. This explains why the Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed memorial was moved from the top floor to the basement. Her supposed engagement ring and glass they drank from the night they were killed is on display; kinda gross. If you've been to Harrod's you know that your eyes cannot take in or believe what you see. Dave did consider cricket, Daniel found something that interested him and Drew was... patient. We did buy and consequently eat some cupcakes that were a little dry. They were displayed next to a 5,000 GBP cake which didn't look that fresh either.

We ended the day at Covent Garden, the first planned green space in England. It's really charming and full of 'buskers'. I asked our waitress what a busker was and she told me it's a street performer. She ought to know, she's from Orange County, California. At her recommendation we ate a traditional cottage pie and it was A-LISIOUS!