Our Honeymoon in London and Ireland

It was very important to me that for our honeymoon we went to somewhere amazing because 1. Ryan has never been overseas before and 2. we want to start trying for kids sooner rather than later.
This was our best opportunity to go and so we went for it... and it was such an AMAZING trip and I am pleased to share it with you.

First off, here is a quick preview I made of the trip using some videos we made:

Now, let's talk about the trip shall we?

First off, we flew Virgin Atlantic over to London and I HIGHLY recommend them... they gave us all sorts of goodies when we got on the plane (sleeping mask, blanket, socks, toothbrush, etc.) and the food was pretty decent. 

Once we arrived in London we were ready to go!! (but also REALLY jet lagged!!) Ryan might look happy in these next two photos but he was also starving and sleep deprived. ha

But once we arrived in the city of London we decided to go full force and pretend we hadn't had more than 2-3 hours of sleep. That's what they tell you. Just try and stay awake and ease into the time zone... 

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 After lots and lots of walking (and getting a little lost...) we found Parliament! And Big Ben (inside the Elizabeth Tower, of course)

Then we stopped by Westminster Abbey. Isn't she beautiful? Unfortunately it was closing in 15 minutes so we didn't want to pay to go in. And we never went back to do so... (sigh) Guess I will just have to go back :) 

And on the other side of the Thames is the London Eye! We bought tickets to ride it later in the evening. 

The first place we ate at in London was this pub. It was bittersweet... this was a place I had eaten at with John. So, I was excited to share this with Ryan. Granted, it was a great choice. The pub is literally feet away from the beautiful sounds of Big Ben and has THE BEST Fish n' Chips we had the entire trip. Yumm!!!!!!!

A lovely view of the Eye from down below... we bought tickets, took a walk, and then came back for the ride.

I finally got to cross over the Millennium Bridge. Yes, the ones the Dementors ruined in Harry Potter. Good thing they built it back up again (wink)

A view of the Thames

Locks on the Bridge. A tradition stolen from France. 

And then we met St. Paul. :) And attend an Evensong service. It was really nice buuttt... we kept falling asleep whenever we bowed our heads to pray. At this point the jet lag was hitting us HARD. I started to question if buying the London Eye tickets was a good choice. haha