We were finally in London!! We got there about 8pm London time, but back home it was 2pm. Still, after our incredibly long day, we were all really ready for a shower and a bed. 😉

Jet lag is so weird. I finally laid down at midnight, exhausted after getting us semi-unpacked and organized and was wide awake the moment I got into bed. Eisley had already gone to sleep and she woke up about ten minutes after I laid down, so I just pulled her in bed with me. Of all the memories I have of London, this is one of the ones I want to hold on to! She and I just snuggled and talked and she sang to me and I sang to her and it was just the sweetest time with my girl. She finally fell asleep all snuggled up with me about three hours before our alarm was set to go off, but it was still just so precious.

Our first day, we had train tickets to go to Windsor Castle. We rented an Air BnB and it was about a three minute walk to the tube (aka subway).

Here we are outside our house!! It was a renovated firehouse! So fun! Notice Eisley is like, “What in the heck are we doing. It is the middle of the night.” 😉 We took the tube to the Waterloo train station. Waterloo is a huge station, there’s tons of shops and places to eat at it and people are EVERYWHERE.

Mama and Eisley were both VERY tired at the train station. We got there pretty early, so we just walked up and down the escalators a million times trying to stay awake so Eisley could sleep on the train to Windsor Castle.

Obviously, the plan worked wonderfully. 😉 Someone did not want to sleep, she wanted to play on the hour-ish train ride through some super beautiful countryside. When we reached Windsor, we had about a ten minute walk to the castle.

Oh my goodness, guys – Windsor Castle and the whole little town is GORGEOUS. It was a beautiful, incredibly humid day and all the stone and rock walks and the castle… of all the places we went, Windsor Castle was one of my top favorites.

See what I mean? It was just incredibly beautiful. Eisley and I just walked around the wall overlooking the garden for forever and every time I started to move away from it, she started yelling, “No! Pretty garden!” 😉

Me and my best girl. 😉 Between her and all the diapers, snacks, extra clothes and everything else I had shoved in my backpack, I’m pretty sure I carried about 40 pounds through London.

The humidity did fantastic things to my baby girl’s hair.

The guards!! Oh my goodness, this was Eisley’s favorite part of the whole entire trip. We searched for guards everywhere after Windsor. They aren’t allowed to make any movements or react in any way, but when a certain tiny girl stood in front of this guard after this picture and said, “Tank you, gwaud,” he definitely cracked a smile and nodded slightly at her. Eisley then marched like a guard the whole way back to the town. 😉

People. England does not mess around with fish and chips.

After lunch, we walked around the little town of Windsor for a little bit. Such a beautiful little town! By this point, we were all starting to drag a bit, seeing as how we’d now been up the entire night Albuquerque time. 😉

We found coffee!! And a fake guard! Ha! Eisley was just about asleep at this point in the Ergo. When planning the trip, I read HUNDREDS of articles and blogs about how to do London with a baby (because I never over-plan or over-research…. 😉 ), and the overwhelming theme seemed to be, if your child is small enough to wear in a baby carrier, wear them. Don’t bring a stroller. SO thankful I listened – the cobblestone paths were so cute and quaint, but it would have been awful to do a stroller on them. Plus, I would say only about 20% of the subways actually had elevators. We climbed thousands of stairs over the week and a half. It was perfect to just stick her in the pack and go.

Baby asleep, coffee in hand. Mama is happy. 😉

Just outside the coffee shop, there was this little cafe – and we all were so excited and sad. My grandpa’s name was Bill. So, of course Nama had to get a picture with the sign. Love this picture.

Then, we tiredly dragged ourselves back to the house for another night of jet lag and no sleep. 😉 And our first real day in London was over!