Friday and Saturday

Friday, February 13th London
Up by 6:30 and at McDonalds by 7 AM First order of the day was to post the blogs that we had written last night. At this time of the day McDonalds was almost empty but at 2 AM in the morning … nobody at home was up so that we could use our Skype.
Back to our hotel and then with our loaded bags, which we packed the night before, we were off to find a street level bus that would take us to the Paddington Rail Station which, was again at street level. We did not want to again try to get our bags up and down the stairs in the tube stations. At Paddington we caught the train that would take us to Heathrow Airport where we checked out the car rental and sleeping pod arrangements for Sunday & Monday and also checked our 2 big bags at the airport where we will pick them up again when we get the rental car. When we finally found the Central Bus line we were just in time to catch the bus to our B & B in Feltham. We were concerned about just where we should get off but a wonderful lady started chatting with us and gave us good directions about finding our rooms and also about catching our rides to Windsor.
By 12:45 we were checked into our rooms and off again to find the bus and then the train that will take us to Windsor Castle. Guess what, the same lady was back on the bus going home from her shopping trip. We spent the next 3-4 hours getting to and seeing Windsor Castle, again a wonderful time… very cold but worth the effort.
Caught the train then the bus back to our B & B. Before going “Home” we stopped by the local Subway shop and got ourselves a great meat & veggy salad for supper. We enjoyed sitting on our beds, eating our salads and watching the first TV that we have seen since leaving home. Coming in we asked our host if he knew where we could get on the internet and to our surprise he said that he would give us his password so we could sign on to his internet service…. What fun we had…. News from home… and Martha’s world wide skype phone system was working (it would not work in London). So we called all sorts of people…….both on the their phones and the internet. By 9 pm
We decided that we had been on so long that we’d best turn off our computers and get some sleep.

Saturday, February 14 Feltham England
Today was our day of rest…. …. We were served a wonderful English
Breakfast of bangers, ham, egg, toast, beans and coffee. Will not have to eat again until this evening. We are making do with 2 meals a day and having our fruit & nuts for a snack at noon. This has been a great day using the internet and just staying in bed with our feet up. We plan to walk back to the subway tonight and get another salad. Then we must pack up our gear so that we will be ready to be on the bus to be back at the airport by 9 to get our car. Sure has been fun chatting with everyone on skype.