Given the ease of driving to the city yesterday (and the fact that the store we wanted to go to was closed), we decided to head back into town today. Scott went on his bike ride out to Windsor (had tea & cake again) in the morning while we just relaxed here. Then when he returned we headed back into the city. Our first stop was the store since we knew it would be open. We ended up buying a new laptop bag and discovered that we can actually get some of the VAT (the 20% tax on everything) returned. We were pretty psyched about that!
After we bought the bag, we decided to take the tube back over to the London Eye so that Scott could experience it during the day. (When he went in January, it was already dark out). It was the last day our Merlin Pass would work on the Eye as it was not valid on the Eye in the month of August. Much to our surprise, we got in the queue right away and we were on the Ferris Wheel in about 10 minutes. We couldn’t believe our good fortune as we were expecting to wait for at least an hour.
Since we were finished so soon, we decided to go out to dinner. We found a little restaurant near where we parked the car and had a nice, but pricey dinner there. Then we drove back to the house and it took 35 minutes. Then off to bed as everyone was exhausted.
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