Quick Stopover in London

And, we're off!!!

On June 4, the moving company finished taking away all out things, leaving us with an empty home. What a strange feeling.
At 5pm on June 5, we sold both our cars.
At 6pm on June 5, we joined the new owners of our home on a walk through. They were absolutely lovely. We're glad to hand our precious first home over to a nice couple expecting a little boy in just a month.
Afterwards Jeff and Emily, who had been playing with our kids during the walk through, fed us a delicious dinner in the back yard. We made one last run to the storage unit, an illegal stop off to some school trash dumpsters, a stop at Cream King (only for the kids...really), and then crashed at our hotel at ETS.
The afternoon of June 6, we drove to the airport to leave our dear Pennington and all our wonderful friends and memories in NJ. On the way, we got an email from our attorney confirming the home sale had gone through.

So, with no more assets to our name, we flew off!!!

We have one thing to say...J&J flying us business class is AMAZING!!!
It may have spoiled us forever, because they're certainly not going to do that again!

We managed to pull off a quick stopover in London to see Fogo and Lekka!!! The newly engaged Fiona and Alexis to you! ;-)

It was such a treat to see them. We wish we could have had more time, but this was the only way the flights could work out. So, after a good number of hours hauling our way through terminals at Heathrow and storing our luggage, we tubed and bused out to East Dulwich to meet them at their flat. They treated us to an amazing french toast brunch. We caught up for a while while the boys showed their true colors of complete insanity after just a few hours sleep on the flight. Eventually we decided that a stroller nap was the only solution, and we headed off into London.

The boys loved the London double decker buses. Top level, front row for them! They were hysterical because here they are, so excited, pretending to drive the bus!

And here they are 10 minutes later, completely conked out!!!

We took them to see Buckingham palace - a favorite of theirs from their Paddington books. Unfortunately, they were both completely out and we didn't take a picture, somehow thinking we would return.

We wandered through St. James' park. Beau was a little intimidated by the guards, so we just took a picture of this guy, not with him.

Then we made it over to Trafalgar, visited St. Martin in the Fields where Fogo often sings, and headed up to Covent Garden. We dined at Nando's (mmmm....peri peri chicken!), and caught Simon and Irena for just a short time there before we headed back to Heathrow. Always fun to see cousins!!!

The boys loved the tube again on the way back. We collected luggage, and then Mike sprinted through the airport to collect our booster seats which hadn't made it to us upon arrival. This resulted in us almost missing our flight and being completely frenzied. The business class level on Singapore Airlines made up for it afterwards and calmed us right down! We could have fit one of us and both boys in a single seat!!!

Our very excited Lewis was invited to go and meet the pilot and sit in the captain's chair!!! 

The boys were pretty into all their first class treats, space, movies, and service. We slept pretty well, after some cajoling the kids to stop playing and lie down.

And then, we were in Singapore!
We arrived at our hotel late evening and finally crashed....sort of for the night.