9.13.2006

It's becoming difficult to blog.  There's just not enough time to tell you everything! Justine's in the shower at the moment and I feel like I should be multitasking . . .
We got in yesterday morning. I guess it was somewhere around 10. The flight was mostly uneventful. Justine and I managed to have a little chat with Sally from Southampton who was seated next to me; she was very nice and gave us lots of advice on things to see and do. Justine wasn't able to sleep at all, but I managed to sleep a lot. More than I have ever slept in a plane. I was in the middle seat of an AirTransat flight and I slept for more than 3 hours. Can you believe it?? Poor Justine was sitting next to the bathroom so there was a lot of traffic around her seat, so that probably kept her up all night.
When we got in the first thing we did was make it to a real bathroom. Hurrah! And then we marched off to the baggage claim. At this point Justine began exhibiting some trouble walking. Should I have been worried? Maybe. But I thought that was normal.  (She really did not get any sleep!). We managed to lug our bags off the carousel and then said good bye to Art, who was headed to a hostel somewhere in central London for the short time he was going to be in London.
We found Eileen very quickly and then headed off on the train to get home to Richmond. We were feeling pretty sweaty and dirty and ugghhhh -like we had just spent a lot of time on an airplane. So it was very nice, when affter an invigorating walk, we ended up at their flat, able to take a shower an freshen up. Eileen went out for provisions and we made a lunch before heading out to discover their neighborhood. At this point Justine was looking pretty tired but we diecided to keep plugging anyways. 
We walked through Richmond, past the pretty Almshouses and made our first stop at coffee, since Justine was having a hard time staying awake even while walking. Satbucks coffee didn't helo too much either! It wasn't till we took a bit of a walk through the shops that she began to revive. :) We took a walk and Eileen showed us the farm. In the middle of London! Short photo op with the cows ensued. Then we headed back into the town to check out the shops some more and have a look around.
We did that for most of the afternoon and capped of with a pint on the green.
Here Justine was able to squeeze in a bit of a nap. We managed to keep her up till about 8 last night with dinner and email and everything else, including a brief intro to the transportation system. We had about 12 hours of sleep last night!
So now we're headed into London today. Westminster Abbey and some other places. Tomorrow looks like rain so we'll probably do lots of museums then or something. Justine is out of the shower so I should run.
We're off to tackle the busses!

(sorry for all the typos. But no time to fix!)

1 comment:

justine said...

hopefully more awake today...:p