Well hello!!! this is my first official entry while in Europe! Rachel and I had a smooth journey over, flying out of PDX at 1:30 in the afternoon, and was in london by 11 (2 am US time) the next morning. As a result, we did lose our chance to have a nighttime, but we were super stoked to be in the UK. Pete, being the fabulous person that he is, picked us up from the airport, and was our official tour guide for yesterday and today. it's unfortunate that we had to drop him off here in our journey. I'll miss ya pete, thanks for everything!! So first stop, was arriving at Pete's place, which FYI, is a wonderful little place. And it is a fact that American people are much greedier with their homes and the size of them. So Pete and his friend Chip took us to Windsor castle, where we had our first taste of english ice cream, and a brew at a local pub/restaurant. Carlsberg beer=super light, but super ok with me!!! We spent the afternoon sharing stories and comparing US and UK life, such as word exchange (trainer=shoes, trousers=pants, biscuit=cookie), etc, and things we had in common and did not. Seeing the boys and their first view of American money was fun! lol. After the afternoon at windsor, we went back to take a nap, due to our extreme amount of jet lag, and then went out for a night on the town, and enjoying our time at the local bar in uxbridge. :) It happened to be trivia night! hahah..so we did some trivia, drank lots of booze, and played never have I ever! After one bar, we went to another, and then strolled the streets...hahah...it was a drunken, fun night!!!
Today was our second day in london, and one full of sightseeing!! we saw the london eye, big ben, houses of parliament, buckingham palace, went to dirty martinis, and had an overall terrific day!!
Things I've learned while in London and about Brits: there is no ranch, there's no drinking fountains, they're crazy drivers, they don't know what a corn dog is. Their liquor is like 90 bucks a fifth, and their shots are only like, 1/2 and ounce!!! TONS of skinny chicks have boob jobs. They eat, bacon (i.e. ham), bread, and ketchup sandwiches. They choose to watch American tv over their own. We met an Iraqi, who wanted to bring the boys home. They have black taxi cabs, and red phone booths and double decker buses. They have KEBABs, made of lamb. And they spell hummus like houmous. They have too many frickin coins. a 1 pence, 5 pence, 10 pence, 50 pence, 1 pound, 2 pound....and only bills come in 5's and 10's. Their frickin keyboards are RETARDED! the AT symbol is where the quotation mark goes. All their meals come with PEAS. And they don't know what lima beans are. Salads come with balsamic vinegar and oil only. WTF? no catalina! or the RANCH! Everything is HEINZ!They think lemonade is sparkling water that is lemon flavored. not real lemonade. and their tap water is disgusting. they also have salad cream. and they don't know what a sidewalk is.
Lots and lots of trains here. Great service, with trains coming every 2 minutes. Pretty smooth to operate if u have a pass.
But we've check into our hostel now, and I'm sitting here talking to this cool guy from Czech Republic named Anthony. SOOOO...photos are just about uploaded. I know this was such a mess of a blog, maybe I'll get better at it lol
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