Forever Lingering

~United Kingdom~

Travel is Difficult for Bucky and I because we're not rich but our friend Tony gets us places, like the UK. Sure we don't know much but it's nice to travel time to time. We are trying to get as much travel time in before we One: Go on our next mission, and Two: Have our first baby that's on the way.

We're driving around the UK and we're seeing some cool attractions. We saw the Tower of London, Stonehenge, The Big Ben Clock, Windsor Castle, and Th Royal Observatory in London. It was a beautiful day and night. The time change threw us off a bit because it was 2 o'clock p.m in the U.S and 7 o'clock when we arrived. The time is 5 hours ahead.

When we got to the hotel, we went swimming for a couple of minutes. The baby seemed to enjoy it. Buck, who was bearing our child, stayed in the shallows in case something happened. I was in the deep but close to my husband. We came back to our room, dried off, changed and laid down in the comfortable bed. He, Bucky, laid his head down on my chest. I held him close and rubbed the for now- small bump. We had both fallen asleep.

I had been woken up by rain pelting down on the window. I opened the curtains and saw a flash of lightning. I laid back down and held Bucky close again. I felt him shift a tad. "Mornin' baby." He said sleepily. "Mornin'. Did you sleep well?" "Yeah actually. The pool calmed the baby down." "Good. Ready to see more cool things?" "Mm...Not today. It's storming. We'll go tomorrow. We still have the whole week here." "Okay baby." We both fell back asleep.

Today was a better day for all of us. We went around, met new people and saw new things. We went to the Kensington Palace, saw the London Eye, seen the Eden project. We then traveled to London and saw the Science Museum. After that we saw the Buckingham Palace. We had a good time. Buck started to get hungry so we went to the Ledbury (A restaurant).

After dinner, we came back to the hotel. Buck laid down and I took a quick shower. When I got out, Bucky was on the phone with Nat. She calls every day. In America, it's 5:30 pm, it's 10:30 pm here. He chuckled softly and I smiled. We had a big day tomorrow so I laid down. It was supposed to be rainy tomorrow so Bucky and I chose indoor attractions.

When we woke up, we got ready and got into the car. Our first stop? The National Portrait Gallery in London. After a couple hours at the Gallery, we went to the Churchill War Rooms. Bucky and I enjoyed it a lot. We went back to London and went in the National History Museum. Bucky saw a lot of familiar things. After we ate Lunch, we went to the Wallace Collection and York Castle Museum.

It's now our fourth day here in the UK and of course, it rained again. Bucky looked up some other museums and  galleries while I rubbed his swollen ankles. After we searched, we went to the car and drove  back to London. We went into the National Gallery, the British Museum, and the Museum of Science and Industry. Buck's hormones got all out of wack so we got some food and ate at the hotel. We went back into the outside world and went to the National Railway Museum. We didn't stay long due to Buck's episode. Next attraction is the National Maritime museum. The last attraction of the day was the National Museum of Scotland because Buck started to get a headache from the weather and baby. We got back to the hotel and he fell right asleep. I stayed up a little longer to answer Nat's call.

I woke up to Bucky groaning. " Everything okay?" "Yeah, the baby's kicking a lot though." "Oh. Do you wanna stay here at the hotel today?" "Only for a little while." "Okay." We stayed at the hotel and waited for the baby to stop kicking and/or calm down a little. That didn't happen so Buck and I went to the pool. I stayed close to him. The baby, thank God, calmed down enough so we could go out. When we got out of the hotel, we went to Paultons Park, Regent's park, Saint James's park, River Tyne, River Thames, Lake District, and Hyde Park. It was a nice day. Blue skies, sunny. My thoughts were interrupted by Bucky wincing. "Let's go to the doctors. Okay?" "G-Good idea." We went to the doctors. Bucky's five months along and we were worried. Thank God he was only having contractions.
It was the next day, our sixth day here. We decided to visit the Cathedrals and Ministers. Durham Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, Saint Paul's Cathedral, and York Minister. Bucky still wasn't feeling too well so we didn't do much. We got back to the hotel early and decided what we were going to do tomorrow. Tomorrow, we'll be going to HMY Britannia, Tate Gallery, Hadrian's Wall, Warwick Castle, and Wimbledon.

Today, We started off with Wimbledon. After that, we drove around a bit to find Hadrian's Wall. Once we found that, we went to Tate Gallery, HMY Brittannia was next. Lastly, we went to Warwick castle. Bucky like it and started to get hungry. We ate at the Ledbury again.

It was our last day so we checked out. We put all our bags in our car and drove off. We went to Drayton Manor Theme Park and I rode some of the coasters. We went to Legoland Windsor Resort to eventually come back with the baby when it's older.  After Legoland, we went to the Chester Zoo. That took a while. Kelvingroce Art Gallery and Museum was next, Buck enjoyed it because there were some hands-on things. Yay! Another Zoo! The London Zoo. They had a few different animals but nothing too...wild...hehe. Windermere and Snowdonia were next after the Blenheim Palace. Westminster Abbey and Palace of Westminster were after. We ate lunch. Roman Baths, Tate Modern, Tower Bridge, and Victora & Albert Museum were the last places. We went to dinner and started out journey home. Wonder what our next journey will be. Will the baby be with us?