Day one -- Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Our first day in London!!! How excited am I?! Yesterday was filled with airports and planes and plenty of layovers. My day started at 4am. My flight from Knoxville left on time at 6am, arriving in Chicago at 6:45am. I think had a four hour layover in which I walked for what seemed like miles going into all the little shops looking for some last minute items. It's really hard to find a Jude Deveraux book you know?? I was about four chapters away from finishing mind and knew I needed something else to occupy my time. No such luck. So - I started a Max Lucado book.

I left Chicago ((ON TIME!!)) around 10:45 and arrived in Newark, NJ just before 2pm. Another 4 hour layover for a flight to London scheduled for 6:55pm. We ended up taking off somewhere around 8:30 and landed just before 6am local time.

I'm still trying to remember names, but have met some nice (and some interesting) people. My rommie - Tiffany - is great. She's from New Jersey, and so far her only fault is snoring. And that would be exactly 10 seconds after her head hit the pillow. We are all so very tired from the entire day of traveling and jet lag is setting in. Some of us more than others.

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yeah -- definitely fell asleep at this point. It really wasn't cute, I was drooling all over - it was gross. And so far... I've not had any luck getting these blasted pictures from my camera onto my computer to be able to post some. I'll figure it out eventually. I could have just got the CD from WalMart when I developed all 455 of them. HAHA ... but how many cd's would I have to get - I don't even want to think about it.

Well... more to come in other posts, but for now I must become acquainted with my comfy bed. I'm pooped!! We had a late night rehearsal tonight for our newly formed "traveling chorale". Our first (what Bro. Erickson is calling) tour we are supposed to drive to St. Louis Thursday morning and sing Thursday night for the Gateway music thingy. Then drive back Friday morning in time to sing at the Youth Retreat up in Pigeon Forge (about 45 min from me). I will not be going to St. Louis for the simple fact that it was (a) travel one night and sing or (b) Paris and London ... hmmm... HELLIER!!! You obviously know the choice I made.

Aight - I gotta go, I'm falling a sleep and still gotta get home. Asta!