London it is

Day One:
Red Eye flight to Heathrow
Rushmore Hotel
Kensington Palace
Hyde Park
Blackbird Pub - Blackbird PIE!
Oxford Street - Christmas lights

Day Two:

Westminster Abbey, parliment ('walking tour')
10 Downing Street
Trafalgar Square {huge Christmas tree}
National Gallery/National portrait gallery
Covent garden
http://www.coventgardenlondonuk.com/
Tube:Westminster, Covent Garden

(evening)
Harrods
Hyde Park
V&A Museum
(late drinks)
Meet up with Nikki's old college Pal at a pub on fleet street that used to be a Bank of England.

Day 3:

Tower of London
Spitafields open 10-4pm (antiques) http://www.visitspitalfields.com/
Brick lane [The Bangaldesh Indian quarter, thought Nikki could scope out some good indian]
The Old Truman Brewery,
Tube:Tower Hill, Aldgate East
7:30pm OLD VIC – Inherit the Wind

Day 4:
British Museum

St. Paul's
Millennium bridge
Tate Modern, http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
Shakespeare's Globe
Tube: St. Paul's, BlackFriars
(evening/afternoon)
6 hour pub marathon at the Founders Arms, panoramic view of the thames

Day 4:
Buckingham palace

EUROSTAR drops the ball .... 9 hours in an unheated train station.

Day 5:
Realize we are not leaving the UK, Eurostar still not working.
Greenwich
Maritime Museum
Cutty Sark
Go to 0'0'' at the Royal Observatory
See the Naval College
Pub

Day 6:
Day tripper!
Windsor Castle
Stonehendge
Bath
SNow! 4 inches shut down London, don't get back until after midnight.

Day 7:
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Walk about Abbey Road Studio attractions (aka tourist traps)
Regents Park, Rose Garden
Show Alex where I used to live, International Students Dorms
Marylebone High Street
Wallace Collection
Pub

Day 8:
One last pub
Went to the airport early
Duty Free
Airplane delayed

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA