Arrived in London

We arrived this morning about 9:30AM London time. There were so many people at Heathrow, I felt like I was at JFK. the weather is rainy, cold and breezy. We are staying at the lovely Stafford hotel by Buckingham Palace. The flag is up and the Queen is home. We walked in the pouring rain around Knightsbridge trying to stay awake.  It rained so hard at one point we went into a local pub, The Shakespeare Victoria, and had meat pies and ale of course, we were so hungry. We just finished walking through Picadilly and the high end Bond Street area. I have never seen so many Bentlys in one place, with their man shinning the car while they shopped. The cars were wet, oh my! We have time tomorrow to walk through Kensington Gardens and see if William and Kate are home. Our plane leaves for Cape Town at 9:30PM and we enter a completely different culture. Exciting.