Five of Us Riding Nowhere: I Walk the Line

Jess is getting a cold. She was going to wear a cute dress. Instead, feeling rotten and seeing kids who were rambunctious, she changed into a Broncos shirt. Dinah wore the same. Adding on to the Colorado pride, John went for the CSU shirt.

We started today at the home where Charles Dickens wrote Bleak House, Great Expectations and Oliver Twist (which I just read with John on the first few days of our time in England). Dickens owned a very comfortable looking green chaise lounge that begged to be climbed on. Dinah heeded the call and was quickly reprimanded by the Dickens docent. We also happened to walk to the museum right in front of her and I think we annoyed her on the street too.

The largest toy store in the world , Hamley’s of London, is 5 floors of awesomeness and staff who either really like toys and kids or are very good actors. Either way, welcome to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. A family from Denver noticed the Broncos shirt and loudly exclaimed their Denver pride to us.

Because the British were better sailors than everyone else, the Prime Meridian came to be accepted at Greenwich. Everyone but France agreed with that, and some of their tourists continue to be disagreeable when visiting Greenwich.

The Cutty Sark is there. Not the kind that LBJ drank, but the famous tea clipper.

Greenwich is also home to the only planetarium in London, which houses the Alien Revolution exhibit. In 1952, Britain established Project Blue Book to investigate UFO sightings. In 1969, their report stated that the majority of UFO sightings are mistaken identification of "natural phenomena or aircraft," but said nothing of the minority that are not in that category. In 2009, the British Ministry of Defence closed its UFO investigation, supposedly...

After standing on the dividing line between the Eastern and Western hemispheres, we stopped off at a pub for dinner where some people from Denver loudly exclaimed their Colorado pride. They happened to be sitting right next to us. He gives tours of Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Thursdays and Fridays. Just don’t go this week, he’s in England. Of all the gin joints in the world…go Broncos!