Cheerio*

Greetings from Merry Olde England! We made it here safely after a long daytime flight. Granted we've only spent one day here, but I have some initial observations to post:

- It's really hard not to giggle at 11 pm when you get on the tube after a long long flight and they announce, ' This is the picadilly line to cockfosters. Please mind the gap '
- They love them some Princess Diana at Kensignton Gardens and Palace
- Chorzio is sort of gross
- Traveling in a foriegn country where they speak the same language as you is unBELIVEably easier than traveling in one where they don't.

Yesterday was pretty much spent in Hyde Park - we wandered around to Speakers Corner, the Rose Garden, and then did Kensignton Palace and Gardens as well. There was a side trip / dragging to Harrods (don't think my travel buddy was all that excited about going to a big department store), and then we went to a pub and watched the 'football' match and had some dinner with his cousin. In an unrelated very odd note, his cousin's girlfriend was born in williamsville, went to OU, lived in Columbus, then DC and now lives in England. (is this a sign I of where I will be going next??)

All in all not a bad start to the trip. Today, we see the Tower of London and then catch a train to Bristol. There has also been a slight program change... after really thinking about it and realizing that we spent pretty much an entire day in Hyde Park and that there is a lot more in London that we haven't even hit up yet, Iceland isn't really looking like it's in the cards considering that nothing has been booked at all. We've decided to subsitute it for a closer island nation that begins with 'I' instead.....