Knackered!

short and sweet - here's the past three or so days in my life in london.

wednesday
1:20 - board plane in lubbock for houston
3:00 - sit down at pappadeaux in the airport for late lunch
5:15 - meet up with fugi and head to the gate
7:00 - take off for london with a 300 lb guy that im pretty sure was an italian mobster reclining his seat in my lap and al roker (pre-stomach stapling) sitting behind me with his knees in the back of my seat. anyway after the most uncomfortable nine hours that a couple of guys over six feet three inches could endure - we landed at heathrow on a mild and cloudy october morning.

thursday
1030AM - cab driver pulls us up to 111 bartholomew close and matt meets us at the door with half of his suit on (still not sure if these kids work or not) and welcomed us to their humble abode.

12PM - head downtown and meet up with bree for lunch at wagamama.
130PM - go with bree to her office building so she can take her computer to be worked on aka skip out on work for the afternoon.
Afternoon - visit trafalgar square and the national gallery - saw a da vinci painting - put it in bree's purse and headed home.
6PM - hit the sack for a 2 hr recovery nap and then hit up the fish club for some fish and chips, then go home and pass out at 10 oclock.

Friday

7AM - bree tricks fugi and i into getting up and waiting in line for tickets to Wicked - she told us it was london's version of deal or no deal. for those that don't know - wicked is a musical about glenda the good witch and the wicked witch of the west - more groundbreaking developments from the wizard of oz to come later.


1030AM - bree goes to work and we spend the afternoon walking down the streets getting to know the locals - turns out they still don't think revolutionary war jokes are very funny.

6PM - matt, holly, fugi and myself head to the apollo to meet bree for the show.

10PM - head to leicester square to meet up with their friend parri (sp?) at leong's chinese restaurant where apparently she knows the owners because he opened the kitchen back up and let us have a private dining area - holly cried as we cut up the duck appeteizer (apparently she had a pet duck as a child). many entrees later we left stuffed.

Saturday

10AM - head to the train station to meet up with matt and bree who went to have coffee with some old friends that were in town. jump on the train and head towards windsor to see some castle - ate at the mcdonald's upon arrival and toured the grounds.









oh yeah - tried to talk this lady out of getting married - to no avail.



2PM - headed back into town to catch the rugby match between the london harlequins and the london irish. the harlequins were huge underdogs - but they battled and got a tie on a last second kick from 40 yards out. brother-in-law got us first row tickets - had fun watching the two kids fight in front of us the whole game.







7PM - ate pizza and headed to church for their celebration of lights. sitting at home in our pajamas watching the afternoon tech game at 9PM local time. good nite from jolly old england.