Mayfair Walk

Saturday, July 18th

So we had another free Saturday and we couldn't just sit at home. We decided to go to Books for Cooks in Notting Hill for lunch, which is one of my (Jenna) favorites! It is a cookbook shop and in the back they have a test kitchen where they make lunch using recipes from the cookbooks. If you get there early enough you can eat lunch there and it is always delicious!

What made it even better was on the way there we saw an American Store! This actually means we saw a convenience store that happens to sell a few things from the States, but they have a giant American flag sign :D. We picked up some Applesauce, Milk Duds, Cream Soda, Mountain Dew, Peanut Butter M&M's, and Orange Slices (for Aaron's Grandma's Famous Orange Slice Cookies). This was a huge treat! I especially am really missing food from home, mostly candy I guess! :)

From there we had planned on doing a guided walk. We bought a London Walks book a while ago with 30 different walks in it around London. Today we were going to walk around the Mayfair area, which is a high scale part of town with large homes. This was a short 3 mile walk where walked by the Marble Arch, Hyde Park, the U.S. Embassy, Rigby and Peller, where the Queen supposedly buys her undergarments and also 2 yachts stores.

After the walk we had some extra time before meeting some friends for dinner and it was a nice day so we sat in Green Park. I love to people watch and soak up some sun so this was the perfect opportunity! (It really wasn't that sunny, there just wasn't 5 layers of clouds between me and the sun, only one small layer!)

After lazing about in the park we went and met Eric and Anne and also Kia (another girl Aaron works with) for dinner at Taqueira. They had some delicious Mexican food there. It was nothing like Mexican in the States but one of the best places that we have found! We had a great day in London seeing some things that we hadn't before and enjoying the decent weather.