Fruli or not Fruli

We're going to go back in time a little since Tami finished the posts from London until we left, but I was slower in getting my parts done. We flew out on Tuesday, Feb. 20. The day that I'm writing about is on Sunday, Feb. 18 (what can I say, Tami isn't as bad of a procrastinator as I am....)

Anyway, on Sunday, we went out to Richmond to try and meet up with Rebecca and Dan. Rebecca is Janeen's daughter and Dan is her husband. They are both from New Zealand and are on a holiday visa working in London. We had been traveling almost exclusively by subway to everywhere, and found out that they had closed the line to Richmond only on the day that we were heading out there. We figured that we could switch to a bus or something and would be fine, so we headed down there anyway. It really wasn't too bad, just a bit confusing. We took the subway most of the way to Richmond, switched to a bus for a short ride, and then switched over to a train which took us to the station. We were confused, but they directed everyone pretty well, so we weren't too worried.

When we got there, we were both worried that we wouldn't recognize them. While we had met them in New Zealand, it wasn't for a very long time and we were very jet lagged on the day that we had met them. We shouldn't have worried because we recognized them both instantly when we saw them on the street.

They took us around Richmond and we walked around the green and up the river. We went by Ham House, which is rumoured to be the most haunted house in London. Here is a picture..... I couldn't find any ghosts in it though......



You can go in, but it was closed at that time (plus it was really expensive), so we just kept walking and talking. Here is a picture of the area we were walking around



After all of that walking, it was time to start drinking. We went to the Roebuck which is where where Mick Jagger went to drink before he cleaned up his act....


Here are Dan and Rebecca


and Tami and me


After the Roebuck, we were getting pretty hungry, so we walked back into town to one of the local pubs (I forget the name) to get a Sunday roast. While it was pretty late in the afternoon, it was still packed. We had to wait awhile before we finally found a place to sit... and by then, they told us that they had run out of the food that was on the menu. It wasn't too bad though since they soon had a new menu printed up with new food. The food was wonderful, and so was the beer. Tami even drank a beer that we found called Fruli, which is a strawberry flavored beer.

After we ate, we just hung out at the pub and talked for a few hours. We had never really talked with Dan and Rebecca before, so it was a lot of fun getting to know them. We found out that they were going to be going back to New Zealand for awhile for Dan's job, so we were excited for them. After we left the pub, we went back to their place and hung out a little more. We even got to see pictures of their cruise down the Nile that they had just recently gotten back from..... It looked like they had a great time, so we had to add a new place on our list of places to go :)

It had started getting dark, and with the subway line still down, we wanted to go ahead and get back since we weren't sure how easy it was going to be, so we said our goodbyes and caught the bus to the train station which took us back to our hotel.