Hampton Court Palace and SNOW!

A few weekends back we went to Henry VIII's famous palace-Hampton Court Palace. One of Dates' coworkers took us and showed us around. It was beautiful and full of history. We really enjoyed it! Here's a few pictures from our tour...

The Great Hall

Henry stopped by to say hello.

King Dates

The Wine Cellar

Henry's kitchens.

The Garden

Garden

Front view of the palace

Leaving the palace. We were only able to see Henry VIII's side of the palace. There is another part that William III and Mary II built. The place was massive and we will need to go back to see the rest of it. We plan to go back in the spring so we can see the flowers in bloom in the many gardens.

Dates' Dad, Mike, came in town last week for work. We were able to spend a lot of time with him and it was so nice having him here! We did a short river cruise on the Thames one day. A few pictures I took while cruising...

Tower Bridge

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

And this past Saturday night, it snowed! Dates had been claiming it was going to snow for a few weeks...and it finally did. They predicted 3 inches. I don't think it was actually that much, but it was enough to get these Texans excited! Especially Nola! We played in it on Saturday night when we got home from the pub. On Sunday we rode with some of our friends (who are the owners of the pub and have a black lab named Jade) to Battersea Park to let the dogs play. Nola is still tired! 

Our back porch

Nola was very curious about it all.

Street view from our front door.

So excited!

Nola, Dusty and Jade in the back of the car headed to the park.

Nola and her London BFF, Jade.

The park was full of people sledding and building snowmen.

You can see Nola coming in from the left side here...she literally ran for 2 1/2 hours straight.

That's all for now! We are spending this week getting ready for our anniversary trip to Paris! We leave Friday!