Look, Kids: Big Ben, Parliament

It was Sunday morning, July 5, and my friends and family at home thought it was still 5:00 AM. I knew the time was 11:00 AM and we headed out on our first walk.

Since our outstanding travel agent Marc Tonti, of Tonti's Classic Travel & Tours, booked us into the Jolly Hotel St. Ermin's on Caxton Street, we were literally a five minute walk from Westminster Abbey, perhaps six minutes to Parliament. And we were armed with tickets for the London Eye, the major attraction built for the Millennium, so European Vacation's Clark Griswold has not seen it as yet.

What a feeling to be in London. What a feeling to be in Europe. What a feeling to have tickets for ROMEO & JULIET that very night. More London adventure on the next post.