London Arrival

The flight to London took approximately 8 hours of straight flying. Amanda and I flew Air Canada out of Vancouver direct to London. The flight was actually pretty decent. They served us dinner and breakfast (at the appropriate times), played two movies and several TV shows. Personally I took advantage of the soothing music played on channel 5 and the complimentary pillow and blanket. I slept about 5-6.5 hours of the flight taking time to eat dinner and breakfast.

When we arrived we had no trouble at all finding the tube and it was only a 45 minute ride to piccadilly circus in Central london (We did not take Heathrow express, because we are poor students). We only had to transfer twice.

Flying Tip: if you know that you are going to be flying overseas make sure that you swamp yourself with homework the week before the trip. This way you will be awake all night and going to bed early in the morning. Essentially you will be shifting your time schedule to match that of where you are flying.

My companions did not swamp themselves with homework and thus received the normal 8 hours of sleep at the normal Pacific-standard time hours. They are both suffering from severe jet lag and just wanting to go to bed. Unfortunately its the middle of the afternoon here and the have to stay awake just to get themselves adjusted. I find it amusing because I have a TON of energy.

We arrived at the hostel around 10:30 and found out that we couldn't check in until at 2pm. Amanda was not feeling well so she hung out at the hostel and I locked up my bags and headed out into the town. From 11am until 3:15pm I walked around downtown London, I have checked out the London Bridge, Millenium Bridge, the London eye (and I rode it), Big Ben, House of the Lords, St. Johns (james?) Cathedral and a few other places in Central London.

When I arrived at the hostel at 3pm Jenson had finally arrived. He missed his flight out of Calagary (We were on different flights) and had to sit standby for the next flight. Luckily he got on and he is here now, suffering from severe jet lag and is as tired as Amanda.

And now I must go and make sure that both of these two don't go to bed until at least 8pm. I'm going to take them to the London Bridge and we are going to walk across it.