Saturday, July 26, 2008

Back in the USA

Heading back to the good old land of the free ! My awesome passport
photo...

Juggling street performers

Monkey !

Dam ! Missed monkey ! Dam it ! At the royal opera house...

Rosetta stone

It's the Rosetta stone ! If you don't know what that is... Wiki it,
then slap yourself for knowing less history them me ! Hard !

I see dead people...

British museum... Seems the Brit's have taken a lot of artifacts from
other people... Ahhh... The empire !

Check the tube name

NUF' said...

Obama and the PM

10 downing street with Obama visiting... Not terribley exciting. I
was yelling,"We want Hillary !"... Ok not really... He couldn't have
been to important, the didn't even stop construction on the street out
front. Btw, if you don't think they have guns over here... Wrong guys
here have MP5s...totally wicked.

Me and a the horse guard

Yes the lady kept on standing right in the picture... Finally gave up
after third or fourth shot ! Dam tourist. Say the bobbies in
action... Some one stole something... The bobbies started to chase
him... Seriously not impressive! The English run real slow. The bad
guy and the bobbie were running in slow mo! I seriously could have
run across the street down the lane past the bobbie and grabbed the
guy... I had several second of slow running chase it was rediculous !
Like a movie in slow motion...In the and he ran right into another
bobbie... Niether are to swift.

Cool shoes

Look this dude has shoes the have a spot for each individual toe.
Very cool...

London Fire Station

Two trains

More train

The train !

The Chunnel train itself.

Cool train station

This is the new station the Chunnel train from London to Paris... It
is very cool inside. Huge too...

Friday, July 25, 2008

Xenu lives !

Look closely at the name above the doors... That is right crazy
Scientologist ! I couldn't believe it we were just walking to the
Tate modern art museum for diner, I look over and notice... It was a
Scientology center ! And those are all Ron L Hubbard's mineons outside
smoking... Can you believe it? So I scream "xenu lives!" and ran for
my life...

Millienium dome

On the right...

From up top

From the top at the observatory. The center place is called "the
queen's house"... Whatever that means. Mum and Da attended a wedding
there several days ago...

Grenwich

0 GMT... Stood on the Prime Meridian!

British naval museum

Tower of London

Homey kids Big Ben

The palace too...

Cool bridge over the Thames river

Taken from a ferry

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

More P47

This was one of the planes that helped win the war.

More P47

Bowman family history

Here is a grand piece of Bowman history. This is a Republic P-47, my
grandfather was the chief engineer on building this plane. This is was
one of the major Bowman contributions to WWII.

Downed plane

Needless to say this one got shot down.

JSF

Pete, where is your JSF symbol on this model ?

Joint strike fighter

Looks like the Brits are getting the JSF too.

Inside RAF

Boats at RAF museum

RAF museum

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Air Frog

So I'm flying on Air France back to London... You gotta love the
French ! Pepsi, Grolsch (beer), wiskey, or red or white wine... I
foolishly and instinctively said pepsi... I was so as when I saw the
passing out wine bottles. A little red wine and cheese would make the
flight perfect. We need Air Frog in America ! Actually, I am a
little glad I didn't pick the wine looks like it is three full glasses
of wine. With my luck I get a little tipsy and then lost on the tubes
all night!

Goodbye Edinburgh !

Leaving to head back to London... View from my double decker bus... 5
pound round trip to and from the airport... About 3 blocks from the
hotel. Traveling on the cheap when you got no job and you're not with
my patrons (mom and dad).

More performer

Same dude up in the air juggling knives after whipping pasta out of
some lady's hand.

Street performer

Funny street performer, there are bunch all over. This guy tried to
do this double whip trick and hit himself a couple times... Not on
purpose... I saw one catch him in the face, ouch... Be he he

Awesome park

City park