Sometimes things just seem so fitting. For example, we pulled up to our hotel in Seattle and to our delight discovered it was named the Red Lion.
"Red Lion" is supposedly the most popular name for pubs in the United Kingdom.
As luck would have it, Red Lion was the pub right up the street from Lexi's school campus in England. The pub the teachers would frequent but students were prohibited from entering due to some previous bad experiences (?!)
Here is a picture of the Red Lion we drove past countless times on the way to Lexi's school:
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| Red Lion Pub in Thorpe, Surrey |
We had left London earlier that day on our journey to drop Lexi at college with a visit to Ryan in Seattle first.
We will be moving from London in a few months so Lexi will no longer have a home in England.
Lexi hated leaving London, the city she originally couldn't fathom just what was so great about it.
Lexi didn't want to let go of London and it seemed London just couldn't let go of us either.
Sitting outside our Red Lion Hotel was one of the iconic London red phone booths or a Red Telephone Box as they are called here.
Further observation showed the phone booth was decor for the Elephant & Castle Pub & Restaurant located at the hotel.
Elephant & Castle? I recognized that name as an underground tube station in London. There's definitely a British theme working here.
Twice we even detected English accents from tourists in the area. Lexi said it made her feel at home.
It was perhaps a sign that a bit of London will always be with us.
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