Matt with Man of the Hour Shannon, who drove us to Orlando International.

Dana and Matt curbside
at MCO, 4:29 pm, 17 Dec.

Matt's first drink on the
long flight across the Atlantic.

self-portrait in the
in-flight lavatory

 "I can't pee with you
watching me, Holloman."

After disembarking from the plane,
you  walk toward passport control.

shuttling between the north and south terminals at Gatwick Airport

awaiting our train for the
40-ish minute ride to
London Victoria Station,
8:50 am, 18 Dec

the view from our window
at the Premier Inn Kensington

at Courtfield's pub,
directly across from the
Earl's Court tube station

Good blogs and captions
later come from taking
detailed notes now.

Old Speckled Hen on tap!

These are the London nachos
I've been dreaming of
since my last Europe trip.

This tube stop was a five
minute walk from the hotel we
were at our first two nights.

"Going down, underground..."

in the Notting Hill Gate station

Here comes the train
we will board...

...to arrive near Hyde Park.

Winter Wonderland
from a distance

Here's a sentence I don't get to use often: I love what I did with the ducks.

The Serpentine divides
Hyde Park in two.

Dana with a cup of mulled wine
at the Christmas market

The array of booths and drink
stands was billed as a "traditional
German Christmas market."

Father Christmas just
happened to come strolling by.

the Winter Wonderland's ice rink

a statue in Hyde Park

Dana finds a snowman
next to the ice rink...

...and gives him her hat.

a beverage booth on the
east side of the market

looking back at the market
from the east exit

Facing south as we leave
the Wonderland, a double
decker bus passes by.

the Marble Arch tube station...

...whose marble arch was relocated here from Buckingham Palace in 1851

Dana on the moving
sidewalk inside the Marble
Arch tube station

the London Palladium theatre
on Argyll Street

O'Neill's Irish Pub & Grill,
across from the theatre

We made a few new friends quaffing beers outside.

in our seats at 7:30 pm
for "The Sound of Music"

the curtain onstage
during intermission