It's been a while since I've posted here, but honestly this is the first true time I have had to sit down with good wifi and type. So this post is about London and my adventures with Mom.
First off, we spent all day in the Atlanta airport on Thursday (Sep. 5th). Our flight from Charleston to Atlanta was fine, but for whatever reason, ALL of the flights to NYC from ATL were very oversold. So with our standby tickets, we didn't stand a chance of getting on. We waited for 5 flights all together before calling it quits and getting a rental car and hotel.
Were you discouraged, you say? Why no! Not at all! Marji and Teresa are professionals at keeping it cool when we need to, and we did. We rented the cutest, blue Fiat 500 and zipped around Atlanta just like we were in Europe anyway. We did, however, have a few inside jokes to keep us sane over the next couple of days of flying.
The first one was Hug a Male Model Day. I believe it started when we were in the airport and I swore I saw Hayden Spaeth standing across the way. It wasn't him when he looked up, unfortunately, but I told Mom I almost went up and hugged him! Since that's what Hayden does, he hugs people, for those of you who don't know. But we laughed and said I would have had to come up with an excuse for hugging a stranger, and we said I could have told him it was Hug a Male Model Day! (Since he was VERY attractive.)
From that point on, when we would pass an especially good looking guy, we would say, "It's Hug a Male Model Day!" But we never actually followed through on that...
The second thing we laughed about was a failure by Siri. On Friday morning we wanted to find a CVS before heading back to the airport. So Siri got directions and took us there... Except he didn't. We drove way out into some undeveloped neighborhood, and if we had turned left where he wanted us to, we would have been in a field! Mom asked Siri again about another CVS, but he said "I've found several CVS locations, but they are all pretty far from ONTARIO, CANADA!" How he got that idea, we will never know, but we laughed about it regardless. :D And we never did find the CVS.
But back at the airport, we got on the direct flight to Dublin. Which was worth it in the end because Jedward was on our flight!!! ....Yeah, I didn't know who they were either, but other people on the plane definitely knew they were famous. Apparently they were on the X Factor in Britain a few years ago?? I don't know. They didn't seem THAT cool.
Once we got to Dublin, we had another funny experience because suddenly, we had to work to understand people! We needed to store our big luggage in long term storage while we went to London, so people kept telling us to go left here, and go right here, and look for the green cups. So we walked around and never saw any green cups! We thought maybe they meant the luggage place was next to some decoration with green cups or something, but No! They were all saying Green CAPS! It was just the name of the luggage booth! So we laughed about that too, and easily made our way to London afterwards.
That first night in London was great. We saw the Lion King on the West End, with magnificent costumes and little British lion actors. Then we walked around looking in stores and pubs. We walked across the Thames River and saw the infamous London Eye Ferris Wheel. Then had a fabulous strawberry tart in a wine and pastry shop.
The next day...we meant to get up by 11 or so and attend Evensong at Westminster Abbey...but...we may or may not have slept until 2:30 pm... That's jet lag for you!
We still got to the organ recital there at 5:45, which was very magnificent. That evening we just walked around and took pictures in the different squares around London, like Piccadilly, Leicester, and Trafalgar. It was similar to being in Times Square. We had a wonderful dinner in Chinatown of crispy duck, and blended right in with all of the other foreigners in London. But Mom could pick out the Italians by their extremely slow walking pace, which was funny once I could start picking them out of the crowd too.
Another inside joke, (say it in a British accent and imagine two incredibly frustrated old people on the sidewalk): "Shut up." "No, YOOO shut up!"
Overall, we had a great two nights in London. It was obvious, however, that I am not going to live in Kansas anymore!
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