We've been staying up super late chatting it up with the Jones. They're great fun, but this mornings wake up call came early!
We got ready and loaded the Tube for the AutoMat, a swanky pancake house that's become a tradition for the Jones. It fully lived up to my expectations. The girls and I had waffles with strawberries and some homemade whip cream with vanilla bean in it. Yummy, we asked for extra whip cream!


We got to see the changing of the Guard at Buckinghams Palace on our way to church too. It was crowded, we had to pier though a fence and past the guys wielding machine guns, but totally worth it. They have a Guard marching band that plays all the Queens favorite songs live. Very stoic in there huge fuzzy hats. Madie wanted to know if the Queen would be outside watching the band, I wish sweet girl!
We walked the wicked cold walk to Hillsong London for Sunday church. It was great. Literally, it was James River verbatim. They started with praise and worship, the Pastor came up and read prayer requests and praise reports, we had corporate prayer for needs, worship concluded with the Pastor giving verbal announcements and called the hosts forward for the offering and then the video announcements played. They even passed around chicken buckets for offering. Crazy huh. There was a special speaker, Sy Rogers. He has an incredible testimony. He's an ex-gay transvestite that completely changed his life around and has now been married for 20 years. (to a women!) He really played up his mannerisms and voice for effect in several parts of his message. He now travels all over the world speaking about the unspoken subject of sexual sins. It's a great ministry. I admire anyone who can use their garbage mistakes to help encourage and lead the way for others. Although, I'm glad Madie was in the kids department. She would've had way too many questions and been educated on several things that she doesn't need to know. I can only imagine what she would've thought when he was showing pictures of him dressed like a women. WOW.
We found a little pizzeria and ate a yummy pizza and sandwich lunch. You know the ladies have a super small diet of things they love! We went to Covenant Gardens which is an indoor/outdoor market full of local vendors. It had started to snow at this point and walking was getting painful so we headed back to the flat.
It's Superbowl Sunday although no one seems to know over here. We had a great junk food dinner of Chinese, pizza, chips, and more chocolate cupcakes. I'm gonna to have to really work that off in a couple weeks at the YMCA.
The girls have really bonded with Jill and David. The ladies were both harassing David so bad. They were giving him wet willys, fish hooks, crawling all over him and pulling on his hairy legs. He was laughing so hard he had a hard time warding them off. The girls loved it! Jenna sat on Jill's lap for quite a while. She would kiss her and snuggle. Precious!

The point is...We've heard it never snows in London, so why is it a blizzard outside with inches of accumulating snow? We may not get out to South Africa tomorrow. Beach here we come!