As luck would have it...

Hello there! (If anyone is really reading this!)
:-)

So today we decided to head out and see some art. And since we learned the whole city yesterday we decided to walk. Good move. Not only did we burn some calories but we saw things we hadn't before...very nice. So we went to the Tate Modern - nice but not really our thing. Walked around some more then decided 'what the hell, we are here, we both love theater, why not see a show on the West End'. So we made our way to Leicester Square - home of the tkts booth and also a kind of 'mini Times Square'. HOLY TOURIST TRAP! We bought half-price tickets to Avenue Q - which isn't saying much because holy god is this city expensive! We had three hours to kill before the show so we starting walking around.

**QUICK SIDE NOTE**
So my friend (Kara speaking here) Shannon moved to London about a year and a half ago. We had been keeping in touch here and there and I had told her we would be in town. I really wanted to meet up and see her but since we don't have a cell phone and its hard to make plans via email we were kind of at a loss at how to get in touch. I thought maybe we could catch her on our way home in August somehow.
**BACK TO OUR STORY**

So we are walking around the square, checking out the theaters and shops and trying to figure out a way to spend our three hours before the show when I look across the busy London street and see Shannon. Just standing there as if she were waiting for us. Fate? Kismet? Who knows but someone wanted us to find each other - we yell across the road, she sees us - hugs in the middle of the street - three hours later we'd had coffee, walked around and had a glass of wine on a terrace overlooking crowds of people and street performers at the Chez Gerard. It was the perfect afternoon. We talked and talked - she about living in London, us about our trip - just catching up and lots of laughs. We still can't quite believe that happened! One instant on either side and we may have missed each other. After saying goodbye and making plans for August we headed off to Avenue Q. LOVED IT. Such a good show. Some of the jokes were a little different, you know to tailor to the Brits, but it was still amazing. After the show we went to a burger joint and had dinner, now we are here in a little internet cafe telling you about our day :)

Oh, I almost forgot about our breakfast this morning! Yum. I have so many pictures of food its ridiculous. It was a Spanish place and they had cortados! Some of you will get that :)

London was good to us today. Tomorrow we tackle Amsterdam. Please pray for us ;)