Arrived!

And it's 6am in London....we have a long day ahead of us.

I usually have a knack for being able to sleep on airplanes. I cozy down against the window, curl my legs up with my feet resting on the arm rest in front of me and viola! I'm asleep. Except for this flight. From LA to DC I chose not to sleep because I wanted to get myself sorted on London time by falling asleep nicely on my long Atlantic flight at 5pm EST which would be around 10pm in London. While it would be an early rise in the morning, I figured it was perfect because it got me aligned with the time zone ahead.

Except that for some reason I just could not sleep. I was completely exhausted (I hadn't gotten a whole lot of sleep in Spokane the week before, and the night before my flight I was arranging things in LA so I only managed about 4 hours of sleep).

I think it was because I've had so many things running through my head. Would we get to London in time to make it to Ed's house before he had to leave for work? If not, were we then stuck lugging around our huge backpacks for an entire day throughout London? What should we do as our first day back in London? Will I be able to arrange to see all my old friends (I previously lived in London for 3 months in 2008) in the few days we're here?

Fortunately we did make it to the tube stop on the District line in time enough that Ed could meet us and take us to his place for a quick morning nap. He lives in Chiswick, which is in Southwest London so I haven't spent much time here but it's a beautiful area with lots of little parks.

We've made it to home base #1 in Europe!