On Wednesday night, we took the train out of London a little later than we planned, so by the time we got to Gatwick Airport, the car rental place where we had reserved a car was closed.  That meant we had to take a cab to the hotel where we were staying which I actually thought was a blessing because the roads were so confusing and I was feeling stressed about Scott having to drive on the left side of the road, which he did like a champ. In the morning, Scott and I took another cab to the car rental place and waited in line for a while only to discover that we couldn't rent the car without Scott's passport.  So we had to take yet another cab back to the hotel so Scott could get his passport and went back to the rental place.  We spent a lot of money on cabs.  I stayed at the hotel and took a cab to the London Temple so that I could get in a session while Scott got the car, collected the kids and luggage at the hotel and then came to the temple.  While they ...

We arrived in London on Tuesday morning, flying in from Munich.  I had always wanted to visit England.  Back in 1988 I spent 24 hours in London and found it quite stressful because I was just learning how very expensive it can be to travel and I was short on money. This time around we had more money but it was still hard for me to spend it.  We arrived at Gatwick Airport and needed to get to Kensington to visit friends we knew from our year in Germany, the Kirkhams.  So we spent about $150 on round-trip train tickets to get into London and then spent some additional money to take the Tube to where we needed to go.  Getting around in London is not cheap.  It was worth it though, to arrive at our friends' house.  David Kirkham is currently the director of the BYU London Study Abroad program so they have an apartment attached to the center and they very graciously offered to let all six of us stay with them. They had some food ready for us and after a...