Allo!

Hallo from Jolly Ol' London! Flight here was alright, a bit uncomfortable and crappy sleep (only about 2 hours maybe) and then we got to London at 10:10 Local time, 3am Edmonton time. So we were kind of weirded out about the time. Especially cause it was Friday when we got here... not Thursday. I booked the hostel for Thurs, Fri, and Sat nights... I was worried that it would cancel out our reservation or something, but it didn't. We took the train from Heathrow to Paddington station, and then walked to The Lodge hostel. Only about 5 min away. It looks a bit nicer in the photos on their website, but it's okay. We've got a private room with a double bed and there is a sink and a fridge in it. And a tv but there's not much on. We went for a wonder and found some food stores. Not too expensive either. £11 for peanut butter and jam, bread, meat and cheese, a big ass thing of water, a cake thingy (says it serves 6 but we've had a chunk today and I'm sure we'll polish the rest off tonight) and a bit more. So it's not that bad. We went to sleep at 5pm cause I couldn't keep my eyes open whilst watching Resevoir Dogs, and slept until 2am. hmm... not a whole lot to do at 2 in the morning, so we looked out the window for awhile.. lots of people up on a Friday night. And then slept until... 10am. Tha'ts right. How many hours of sleep is that?? 17. I've never slept that much in my life!! But surprisingly enough I'm not over rested. So we didn't get the early start that I was anticipating but that's okay. We packed a crap load of stuff into one day. Bought a day pass for the buses for only £3.50 and then took it to central London. It's really neat seeing lots of old buildings with modern day stores in them. Walked to Buckingham Palace. Saw a couple guards. Walked all the way around St. James Park to Westminster Abbey and found that we could've walked about 12 steps to it. *sigh. Oh well. Then walked BACK around the park to see the London Eye. It's massive. Saw the Thames River that runs through London. It's really quite dirty. Even more so than the North Saskatchewan I must say. When we walked quite a ways to St. Paul's Cathedral. We were going to pay to go in so we lined up and everything, went through the doors, and realized we only had to pay to go further in. Well I saw all I wanted to really, so we just turned around and went out. hah. It was perfect. There are double decker buses everywhere!! We've taken a couple today. I love them. You can see a lot out of the top deck. Around 4 when we were coming here the streets were packed!! Like west edmonton mall during Christmas. And the buses are crazy too. They manouver around like they're little cars. It's quite scary walking around. We just run. We've been pretty close to getting hit a few times. But not to worry!! Tomorrow we're going to Bristol for the rugby game and to meet up with Kate. Should be fun! Legs are kind of tired from walking all over today so I think we'll go back to the hostel. Things close down around 5 or 6 so there isn't a whole lot to do at night. We were thinking about going to the cinema but maybe we'll just sleep. Because we need more. hah. No but I'll definitely shower!! Haven't had a chance to do that yet. Must do.. hah. Anyways, talk to you guys soon I hope. Hope all is well!! andie. ps. Weather here is TERRIFIC!! I wore a tshirt and a fleece long sleeve and was warm for most of the day. It's not terribly windy at all. Perfect. Extremely sunny. Lucked out I think!