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London

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Thursday June 22, 2017 After we woke up, packed up, ate, and got everything ready we were able to pull out of the Ogles driveway by 8:30 am. The Drive to London was fairly uneventful. The plan was to drop the rental car off (at the airport), head over to our hotel near Paddington Station, check in, and then meet up with the Ogles around 11 for the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. We gassed up the car one last time (we only had to fill up once during this whole trip! Benefits of driving a diesel) before dropping her off. Easy peasy. Getting from the rental place to the hotel was a bit of a whoopsie though. John knew of a more direct route that I didn't, and I, knowing we were on a time crunch, took off for the bus station without conferring with him. Big mistake. We ended up backtracking and taking John's much nicer, quicker, more direct route to our hotel. Long story short we didn't end up catching the changing of the guard haha. But, I think it worked out j...

Oxford

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Wednesday June 21, 2017 I think everyone slept really well last night, we were all so tired from our adventures the day before. Lisa and I woke up early so I could tag along on her runs through the beautiful oxford countryside. Later that morning we took off again with John and the kids for a little walk along a canal to feed the ducks. These ducks totally know what's up and before long we were completely surrounded by 15-20 of them. We decided to move on and find some other mouths to feed. Good thing we did because 200 (ish) yards up the canal we came across the cutest little duckling family. The girls were totally enthralled and at one point Jane announced to the whole world, "I LOVE THEM!" hahah it was adorable. Once we ran out of bread we continued down the path (with the ducks in tow) and cut across Port Meadow to meet up with the Thames river and make our way back to the apartment via the same route Lisa and I had run that morning. It was a nice littl...