A New Adventure - Day 1 London, England

This blog is a combination of Liz Casline, and myself.

A few months ago, I sent Liz an email containing some travel plans that I was taking. These plans were to visit her in London, come January 1, 2012. Liz was sitting in traffic on the Bay bridge in San Francisco. No later than, 15 seconds after I sent the email, I got a phone call from her saying "WTF?! IS THIS FOR REAL?!" Well, it sure was!

Liz is a student at The University College of London, studying Human Evolution and Behaviour (its the British spelling of the Behavior).

6 months later...

Day 1 - Arrival

After driving from Evansville Indiana all night, then getting on a plane and not sleeping, I finally got to see the beautiful Ginger Wife waiting for me at Heathrow Airport. Seeing her face in real life is so much better than over a laptop screen! Skype is now so over rated! We hugged for what seemed like 10 minutes, and then began to go to her flat in the city.

I unpacked a little, and then we were off to explore the city! We first walked down through Soho, passed Leister Square, and out into Trafalgar Square. What a site to see that was! "This is my favorite place here in London!" said Liz. She has a little coffee shop that she likes to go and study at in Trafalgar Square. We then went down to see Big Ben, Parliment, 10 Downing Street (The home of the Prime Minister). Walking through St. James park and over to see Buckingham Palace (The London Residence of the Queen!). A New Years Day parade was happening this day, so I was able to take a picture right in the middle of the street and get a cool shot of it! Its the picture that is in this blog!

After seeing the palace, we went through Green Park to go see the Queensbury Madrigal Singers sing at the St. James Piccadilly Church. The Madrigals was the select choir that I was in when I was in high school, so it was really cool to see my director and the group that I was in, sing in London. None of the kids knew that I was coming, and they were all SUPER surprised to see me there! After the service, we were able to go have a drink and lunch with Bryan Kirk, my former piano teacher from home. He was one of the chaperones, on the Madrigals trip. It was really nice because Liz had never met him before! They got along great, and we never had a quiet moment!

Then it was like typical London, and rained. So we decided to come home after lunch with Bryan, because 1. it was raining, and 2. I was exhausted!! Way over 48 hours of no sleep really can hurt at the last stretch of time! Liz made dinner when we came home, and it was delicious! We were in bed at 7:30pm, and I was passed out at 7:31pm. It was a great start to a great adventure here with the one in my life who understands everything that has happened in it!

To be continued...