Day One - Travel Day

Up and early on Tuesday to get ready and leave for London! Boy we should have gotten ready a little before this so there wasn't so much to do. James was still doing laundry. I was packed and ready to go right before we left. Thanks to Phil for giving us a ride to the airport which we had to wait an extra 40 min as the flight was slightly delayed.

The flight was nice as we flew on a 747 through British Airways. That is the biggest jet I have ever flown on. The 747 has two floors, didn't get to see the first floor since that was first class. Trust me I tried, but the lady at the gate wouldn't upgrade us! Like my last trip to London the flight was quick and didn't seem to take too long. The best part was that the entertainment was an on-demand sort so you can pick and choose when to play the option you were looking for. The flight wasn't even full, so we lots of room and people were moving all over the place for extra space and sleeping. I watched movies and ate chocolate... oh what a good flight.

We landed in London at 12pm London Time... about 4am for those on the west coast... we now just needed to stay up until bed time to get acclimated to the new time zone. We took the Tube to downtown london and got checked into our hotel room. Very nice place and much roomier than the one I stayed at last trip to London.

I took James to downtown london to the Big Ben and the parliment. We said HI to the Queen... yeah right. We walked around and checked things out then headed back to the hotel through Paddington Station (Real Cool station). Went back, watched some two-half-men on DVD and then went to sleep around 9pm. We both woke up at midnight and couldn't believe it was so early and we felt like we slept forever. We stayed up a bit talking then went back to sleep... much better.