June 25 - A full day with our London family.

No pictures today since every one includes the adorable children. Bob and Axel took the children to the German International School near their home while Steffi and I took our time and walked into Richmond, where she had a physical therapy appointment for her knee. I walked around Richmond until she texted me that she was finished, and then we had a great time shopping together.  It started to rain, so we took Uber to the ice cream shop where we were meeting Bob and the rest of the family.  Our Uber driver immediately started talking politics and then argued with Steffi about the route we were taking to the shop.  (She eventually gave him a poor rating on Uber.). Anyway, we had a lovely lunch near the ice cream place before eveyone else arrived (an Oyster card fiasco because we didn't know that they were going to be using public transportation to get to the German school). The gelato was worth the craziness, though, and then we took the bus back to their home and played games with them, later watching a soccer match and eating really good sushi for dinner. We sleep on a full-size fouton at their house, but it is SO comfortable that we always sleep well -- or maybe it's that we're totally exhausted at the end of a busy day on top of a busy week....