Londres

Friday afternoon I went to the enormous Zurich airport (which is really a shopping mall with some airplanes) and took my flight to London's City Airport. Swiss Air - it was pretty hilarious that they had business class seats but they were absolutely no different except that they were 1) the first three rows and 2) they got bottles of water before take off. I was surprised we got a little orange muffin though - we don't get snacks very often on US flights any longer without paying for them.

London's City Airport was great actually - it's smaller and things went much faster than they probably would have at Heathrow. Some people tried cutting in line at immigration, and this one guy berated another for cutting, which everyone was secretly very happy about. The damn guy never moved back, though. Some people did...

The trains were soo crowded - it was rush hour - and I was about to pass out or become impregnated by someone if I had to ride for a few more stops. But, I got to Russell and Peter's, we had a delicious chicken dinner and chatted for the night.

From Europe 2009

Saturday I was planning on taking a fast train to Cambridge, but the Circle line was completely closed and the District line was closed in my area, so I tried to walk to Victoria Station but didn't make it. So, I waited until Philippe got in and we walked around quite a bit - I met him back at Victoria (after going back to Russell and Peter's for a while) and we walked all through Hyde Park and took time to smell the roses, and then back to Russell and Peter's.

We all went out to Phoenix, a pub that was very loud due to a bachelorette party in the back room but I had my first alcoholic cider (not bad!) and I got a shrimp and clam salad for dinner. It was not bad either - the clams were itty bitty ones - I had never had those before.

From Europe 2009

Philippe headed back to his hotel and Russell and Peter and I watched the voting results for the Eurovision contest. Norway won...

Jose should be getting from Paris sometime soon, and we'll all go to the London performance of Agrippina.