I'll start at the beginning...

As many of you already know, my laptop was left behind at the security checkpoint at O'hare international when I passed through to board our flight to London. I didn't realize that laptops have to be put into a separate tray to go through the xray machine, and when it was taken from my bag no one informed me. The five pounds my Macbook weighs wasn't enough for me to notice the difference in a backpack that totaled about thirty pounds.
By the grace of God, the computer was still with the TSA when my mom called, and when my dad picked it up upon landing at O'hare the next day.
Crisis averted.
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Our first experience overseas was security in Heathrow, then a 6 1/2 hour jaunt through London. Jaunt is probably the wrong adjective to describe our day in London. We saw practically all of London in those 6 1/2 hours. There were several in our group who would have been left on the underground train car when we returned to the airport if we hadn't woken them up.
While in London, we saw Big Ben and Parliament, walked through the British museum (possibly the best museum I have ever visited, and its free!), walked to Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London and Tower Bridge, and to and through Westminster Abbey.

That is THE Rosetta Stone.  There are lots of things in the British Museum that should probably belong to different countries, but, whatever.  The tall guy on the other side is Jason Irwin.

I just like this picture.



Ornament from the gate of, and most of the group in front of Buckingham Palace.


Westminster Abbey. I wish cameras were allowed inside. It was the most magnificent building I have ever been inside of.



Parliament. Big Ben.