Heather Comes To Visit

#828 | Posted Saturday 3rd January 2009 at 07:21pm by Andi Smith

Way back at the start of October, Heather emailed us with news that she was going to be returning to London for the New Year. After her previous visit where her luggage hadn't turned up, the good people at Air Canada had sent her a nice voucher which helped her pay for another trip.

Amy and I were very pleased when Heather decided to stay at our flat during her time in England, and as the time approached we began to plan what to do.

My basic aim for Heather's trip was to make sure that a) she saw everyone she wanted to see, and b) that she saw any parts of London that she wanted to see, while also giving her a feel of rural England. I feel fairly confident that we met those two criteria.

On the first day, Kev picked Heather up from Heathrow Airport, fed her breakfast round his and Gemma's, before dropping Heather off at ours. Once Heather had settled in to the spare room, we grabbed some food, grabbed a Jimbob and headed down to the good old Skylark to meet up with everybody.

On the second day Shel came over to visit and we went for a long walk over Happy Valley, starting at Old Coulsdon and walking to Chaldon Church before heading back to the car in Old Coulsdon.

In the evening, Amy and I were going to Jav and Hannah's Engagement Party so we left Heather in Shel's capable hands and they went for a curry.

On the Monday, we headed in to London meeting up with Mr Hockley. We did the (now traditional) Green Park dance, walked around Westminster and went on to the London Eye.

We were actually aiming to go on the London Eye during the day as Heather hadn't been up in the light, but there was a bit of a wait (luckily, you don't have to queue just buy your tickets in advance) so it was actually dark by the time we got on.

Ian left us one large bag of Muffin tops(!?!) better off and we headed back home for the evening - planning to go to Winter Wonderland on the Tuesday.