I didn't think it was going to happen, but one of my best friends came over to visit all of us in August. You may know him as 'Your Godfather'. Apparently, this trip had been in the works for over a month and I was one of the only people who didn't know it was going to happen. Great surprise! We had so much fun hanging out with Andrew in London and only wish that his wife, Amanda, was able to join, but she had just started the school year with teaching. You were always so happy hanging out with your Godfather throughout the week and I'm sure you can't wait to eventually get back to Chicago so we can see them more often. Enjoy the fun pictures of the week!
Love,
Daddy
Your mummy and Andrew had it all planned out for how he was going to surprise me. We originally had the idea to go out with one of my co-workers for dinner, but when I went to meet you both at the train station, Andrew came out from around the corner.
Yep, the picture below pretty much sums it up...."What the, I mean, are you serious? Where the heck did you come from". Andrew and Amanda were just in Indianapolis that weekend seeing friends and a brand new addition to the Spitzer family so I never thought that he was going to catch a flight out of Indy, to Chicago, over to London the very next day!
You and Andrew hanging out around the city of London....doing tourist things and just having a great time.
You can take the kid out of the small town, but can't take the small town out of the kid. Andrew resides in a town of Indiana, which has under 1,000 people the last time I checked. A bit different from London and its 9 million inhabitants.
Andrew is a true entreprenuer at heart. He's in a family business back home that deals with auction and real estate. He also likes to dabble on the side with different businesses....one of which is the local golf cart rental business.
As you can see in the background of this picture, it looks like the Queen is interested in having golf carts on the property. Yep, the light bulb went off and a new niche market could be formed in London. Wilson, you want to move here for a few months with Amanda to get it started up???
A picture in front of Tower Bridge once we finished up going through the Tower of London.
Our other pledge brother who lives in London with his family, Sam Blossom, was able to get Arsenal football (soccer) tickets. This ended up being the first football match that we had attended.
We also tried setting up a dinner reservation at one of our favorite bars because it's supposed to have some amazing Thai food. Well, we're still going to have to try it out on a future date because they never wrote the reservation in the book and term 'the customer is always right' doesn't apply over here. Churchill Arms is still a fun bar to go to and as you can see is somewhat fond of flowers.
A trip to London wouldn't be complete for an auctioneer unless we stopped at Portobello Market. It was a day when they had their antique items out, which is right up Andrew's alley. He was definitely a good person to have with us in order to pick out good deals.
We finished the week up by hanging out in Holland Park by Notting Hill to spend time in the gardens and catch a glimpse of the wild peacocks running around. Andrew also thought it was a good idea to start teaching you how to play chess.
We all had a great time hanging out with Andrew that week and can't thank him enough for coming over to say hi and spend time with us.
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