There is little discernible difference between the DMV and the American embassy

            Our flight to South Africa took us through London again, not that this is a bad thing, we quite like London. Unfortunately, our stay in London was mostly a visit to the American embassy. In the 2 months that we had been travelling we had been doing our laundry by hand, it was cheap and efficient and it met our budget. We found a launderette in Stratford upon Avon next to our hotel and thought before we leave for Africa, it was time to have a good wash, and wash we did. However, in all the excitement of rounding up every last article of clothing available, I foolishly left my passport in my trousers. There were minor damages to the passport but major concerns about whether it would work to get me to South Africa. Rather than risk being turned away at the border we went and inquired at the embassy. 24 hours, a substantial sum of money, and a lot a patience later they gave me a cute little emergency passport, that we are praying will get us to where we need to go. After that fiasco we did some other fun stuff too, let the pictures tell that story.

-Rusty

The Rosetta stone in the British Museum in London. Kind of lame that the Britons stole everything from Egypt, but kind of awesome that  we got to enjoy it for free.

Giant fist from some super giant statue in Egypt.

Chelsea's favorite, one of the Cyclidian statues from the Parthenon. 

Buddha, we like him.

More Buddah, Chelsea is the Scholar on this type of art, this apparently is one of the first Buddah statues ever.

James bonds car, life changing.

Tired of pies, chips, and kebabs. We ventured into a Chinese restaurant where they made homemade noodles. It really warmed us straight to the soul. And it was nice to have our noses start to run from the spiciness. 

We got a new, amazing, lens for our camera, it was on sale in London for a small fortune. But we trade off carrying the camera to look cool, and we do look pretty cool.

After our fun we flew to Tel Aviv, with a plane full of Jewish summer camp kids. Which, believe it or not, was quite loud and stinky. We are starting to loath teenagers, all over the world, they seem to lower the quality of life. Nonetheless, we got to Tel Aviv and found a comfortable spot to lay down for a few hours until our flight connected.

On our way to ZA