Post 2 - Part 1

Well I didn’t sleep a lot in my little pod, but I was able to rest quite well. Ken and John didn’t really sleep either. Once we landed in London, we made the journey to the baggage terminal, it’s about a good 10 minute walk or so. Then once we collected our baggage we took a taxi to the Hilton Hyde Park. In past trips to London, we have taken the Heathrow Express from the airport, but we discovered that it is about the same price and less painful to take a cab, especially with 3 of us, and with luggage for two weeks. It was actually quite nice because we didn’t have to take our luggage all through Heathrow and then onto the train and then on the tube to get to our hotel.

It really is nice to be back in London. I loved riding in the cab and looking at the familiar scenery. It’s really cool how there are little farms with cows and horses, and then right next door there are apartment and commercial buildings. I love how green London is. It’s lovely to see flowers and spring grasses. I really could see myself living here. I love how when you drive down the street you see tons of people and little shops and restaurants. It’s hard for me to describe, but the city just feels alive all the time. I love people watching and riding on the tube reading the free trashy papers. It’s so quick and easy to get around. And I love being able to walk through the park in the moderate climate. I’m sure Calgary has some things like that, but it’ll never make me feel the way London does. I mean I love Calgary, because it’s my home and it’s where my family is, but sometimes I wish I had grown up on this side of the pond. But anyways.....

Once we checked into our hotel, it was only about noon. It was about 5am our body time, but we decided to push through and do some site-seeing. So we hopped on the tube (the underground subway-that’s Ken and I on it above) and headed to Trafalgar Square, this was on the of the things on Ken’s list that he really wanted to see. John and I have been there before. It was actually pretty busy, lots of people around.