Day 3

Finally have a few spare minutes to update this thing... let's see if anyone even notices.

Anyway, Kate and I arrived in London on Tuesday afternoon thoroughly beaten and exhausted by our 11 plane flight. Despite copious amounts of Tylenol PM I still managed to only sleep a total of one hour. To pass the time instead I chatted with the nice old Scottish woman next to me (actually I just nodded and pretended I could understand her accent) and watched the new straight-to-DVD Alexis Bledel movie (fun fact: it's as bad as it sounds).
Our first night in London Kate and I were too tired to go out to the pubs like most people, so we resorted to unpacking and a 10 PM bed time. When we woke up the first morning it was snowing pretty heavily and everything was white and beautiful- the best first morning ever! Later, we went grocery shopping and I legally bought my first bottle of vodka (not as great as it sounds- I accidently bought the British equivalent to Popov). In the afternoon we took a bus tour of the city and got a glimpse at a lot of the most famous sights. We didn't get to spend much time anywhere but I imagine I will be seeing a lot of the city in my History of London class. At night we went to our program's "pub crawl." Don't be fooled- sounds fun but it kind of sucked. Everyone dispersed pretty early on and did their own thing. We were still really jet-lagged and called it a night kind of early.
Thurdsay we slept in, which was very needed. We walked around Kensington High Street and went to a comedy show in Picadilly at night. Afterwards we went to a sports bar- a unique British experience.
Today, Friday, we have free time during the day and then a "boat party" on the Thames at night (if that isn't code for booze cruise I don't know what is). I am posting a few pictures now, and hopefully more soon!