london day 1

Okay so its now day 2 in London but here's a recap on what happened yesterday...

Yesterday was an interesting one, while excited to have finally reached our destination, well Eddy and I were so tired that to the unassuming eye we probably appeared to be walking zombies... of course along with this complete exhaustion comes an element of hypersensitivity and heightened emotion which when coupled with finding your way around a new city, getting used to different public transport and the realisation that everything you know and understand and everyone that loves and knows you (and your bed which lets face it is really the only thing I wanted to see yesterday) is over a 24 hour flight away... well lets just say that a few tears were shed.

Our aim for the day... to stay up as late as possible and try to reset our body clocks...

... we made it to 4:30 - local time

Its funny, no matter how prepared you are, something always comes up that changes your planes. After waiting in line for what felt like forever to get through security checks, we made our way to the trains with the knowledge of exactly which one we had to catch and where we had to get off... of course this weekend there was track maintenance or something going on and so that plan was thwarted however on the plus side it also meant that we could catch the London Express without having to pay extra for the privlege... hehehe. People were exceedingly helpful and kind, with strangers (okay for the record I am being safe) helping us up and down the underground stairs with our luggage and transport officers actually going out of their way to help you get to your destination! (I tell you, maybe its just because we were so obviously tourists, were trying to be polite and smiling, but I have NEVER in my entire life had that sort of help from cityrail employees who, in my own experience, have always grunted and turned their backs whenever I ask them any questions.

Anyway we eventually made it to Timtam Eddy's cousins place, and pretty much dumped our stuff, showered and left... we didn't want to be an imposition and if we had stayed any longer we may have dropped into an exhaustion induced coma...

So we left to pick up our London Pass and travel ticket thing (yay!!! I never have to think about buying tickets again... or at least for the next 5 days...)

and then.... shopping... which we didn't do particularly well... the zombie thing again I think... but Ariel should be happy to know that the first thing I bought apart from a bottle of water, some mango slices and a bread roll were 2 necklaces for her... but I think I've decided that she has to share (will that be a problem???)

On another note, all of my dreams came true... London is going through what they like to all a heat wave... ie it might actually reach 30*C on any given day, a feat which is cause for public warnings. Of course it also makes it hard to remember that my pool is back home in Oz... should really have packed it in my suitcase, oh and since I think this is at least their third 'heat wave' in as many years... you'd think that some of the shops would install aircon... but apart from that not anything to complain about really...

got to go now or I'll have nothing to tell you about today...
lots of love and hugz
D.

P.S. on the train today there were multiple reminders to people that in this warm weather you should always carry a water bottle and if you feel faint press the emergency button at the next stop for assistance...